Global South

The story of the vulture funds that have brought Argentina to the brink of a second default in one decade should not be told as the work of a heartless speculator, an ultraconservative…
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As reported by the Pew Research Center, and based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security document, poverty and regional violence in three Central American countries are the main…
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Cuba is siding with Argentina in the case of that South American nation's foreign debt and how it can best pay it off. "By defending Argentina, we defend the right of the nations in the…
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At the summit of the Group of 77+China, held June 14-15 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, President José Mujica took a key step toward an improvement in U.S.-Cuba relations and the…
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The use of cyberspace and the social communication networks to infiltrate and destabilize societies and governments was denounced Sunday (June 15) by the Group of 77+China at its summit…
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Cuban President Raúl Castro took to task the world's largest financial institutions for not doing enough to help the developing countries and urged the creation of regional banks that…
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Text of speech by Raúl Castro yesterday (June 14) in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, as published in Juventud Rebelde and translated by Progreso Weekly.
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The majority of country delegations attending the 44th general assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed Thursday that Cuba should take part in the regional bloc's…
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An independent company hired by Washington made a wrong estimate of the technically recoverable oil in the nation's largest shale field, situated in Monterey, Calif. That wrong estimate…
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Last Wednesday (May 14), President José Mujica of Uruguay participated in a presentation to the World Bank (WB) in Washington, D.C. The presentation was as informal as its title, "A…
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