Global South

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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The Puerto Rican newspaper Claridad last week published an editorial stating it awaits the result of the government's efforts so that the truth may finally be known and the impunity of…
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Carlos Muñiz Varela's son has written to President Barack Obama, Justice Secretary Eric Holder, and Puerto Rican Democratic members of Congress to ask that the FBI cooperate with the…
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As part of a whirlwind diplomatic tour, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Wednesday (April 23) in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and prepared to…
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A couple of young Cubans who plan to travel to Ecuador say that their journey is to go "beyond" on a journey to the United States. It is one of many new dynamics in the relationship of…
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ended a two-day visit to Venezuela Tuesday night (April 22) and went on to Argentina, continuing a four-nation mission preparatory to a tour by…
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin America's passion, superstition, violence and inequality, died at…
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