Global South

Excerpts from the speech delivered Wednesday (Jan. 28) at the CELAC Summit in Costa Rica by Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz, as translated by Progreso Weekly.
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After a dull first Summit in 2013 in Chile, under neoliberal President Sebastián Piñera, and a second Summit in Havana, justly described as brilliant and transcendental, CELAC…
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President Castro made the remarks in the opening session of the two-day Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Costa Rica.
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Mujica’s generosity runs parallel to a government announcement that minimum wage will rise more than 13 percent in 2015.
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President Dilma Rousseff and the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, discussed Thursday in Brasília ways for Brazil to help the United States' process of rapprochement with…
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As the United States deals with the backlash from a Senate report on CIA interrogation methods, half a continent away, another country was dealing with its own troubled history. And for…
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For a country of under 50 million citizens, these numbers are staggering, and certainly newsworthy, but apparently not for our mainstream media.
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A project has been started in Chile to prohibit the naming of streets or public places after the late President Augusto Pinochet or any of his aides.
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When it comes to economic policy, the ideas of the public can matter a lot. Elected governments have to worry about being re-elected, and this is certainly the case in Venezuela, where…
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The project "Marks of memory," by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, has arrived in Havana. The initiative reviews what happened in that country beginning with the military coup that in…
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