By Alejandra Garcia September 10, 2024 Peruvian Fishers on the contaminated shore at Pasamayo. Unable to fish and lacking compensation. Photo: Leslie Moreno Custodio / Diálogo Chino. The panorama of large portions of the Peruvian coastline is desolate. What used to be rich fishing regions and the livelihood of dozens of indigenous communities and citizens … Read More
by W. T. Whitney After narrowly losing elections in 2013 and 2017, Xiomara Castro and her social democratic Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre) won the next set of elections such that, as of January 2022, she was Honduras’s new president. The defeated National Party had presided over worsening corruption, electoral fraud, poverty, and violent repression … Read More
By Daniela Cabrera Monzón on September 12, 2024 Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, explaining the impact of the US blockade. photo: Marcelino Vázquez Hernández/Cubadebate Cuba today presented an updated report on the damages caused by the longest and most extensive blockade in world history. From March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024, the U.S. … Read More
The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) expressed its disagreement with the preliminary report of the panel of experts of the United Nations (UN) on the presidential elections held on July 28. In a statement, the electoral body described the report as illegal and contrary to UN principles, “violating the terms of reference agreed with this … Read More
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