With his wide-brimmed peasant hat and oversized teacher’s pencil held high, Peru’s Pedro Castillo has been traveling the country exhorting voters to get behind a call that has been particularly urgent during this devastating pandemic: ...
Protests in Haiti have led to hundreds of deaths yet have drawn little attention in the west, thanks in large part to its strongman leaders’ continued loyalty to the United States. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
A recent poll showed that if Andrés Arauz Galarza were allowed to run in Ecuador’s presidential election of 2021, he would win in the first round with 45.9 percent of the vote. The pollsters found that Arauz—who ...
Lebanon’s current tragedy is the perfect opportunity for its former colonial masters to stage a comeback. (Common Dreams) French President, Emmanuel Macron, is in no position to pontificate to Lebanon about the need for political ...
Since 2004, successive administrations have partnered with Washington to loot Haiti, stripping away its assets to the point of collapse and leaving it woefully unprepared to face the coming pandemic. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised investments and loans to African nations worth $60 billion as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Xi denies the allegation that the financial support is a debt ...