Global South

September 23 is the annual commemoration of the so-called Cry of Lares, an event that signaled the start of the Puerto Rican independence struggle against Spain in 1868. As often…
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Brazil took the extraordinary step Tuesday of putting off a state visit by President Dilma Rousseff over allegations of U.S. spying.
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When Salvador Allende took office in November 1970, Chile was aligned with the U.S. The foreign policy of his Unidad Popular government broke sharply from this Cold War bloc.
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Brazil's action over the detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner shows South American nations no longer toe Washington's line. And the British proved their loyalty.
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In 2007, Ecuador dared to formulate at the United Nations a very advanced initiative: leave untouched the oil that lies under Yasuní National Park .
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Carlos Muñiz Varela was gunned down in 1979 at the age of 26. Two basic elements merged in his assassination: an ultra-rightist movement of Cuban origin and dirty cops dominated by…
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In a country where no cases of cholera had been recorded in more than 150 years, the number of cholera-infected Haitians surpassed all recorded cholera infections in the rest of the…
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The writer speculates that MLB was told by U.S. authorities to nix the Cuban participation in the Caribbean Confederation tournament.
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Progreso Weekly published a La Alborada editorial titled "What exactly did John Kerry say?" earlier this week. Here's the article cited and written for the Spanish daily ABC.
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In an editorial written by La Alborada the question asked is pertinent: What did Secretary of State John Kerry tell his counterpart Elias Jaua that drew such a reaction from the…
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