The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature: From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said. Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).
We can’t help but connect what is happening in our country today to a long history in the Americas of governments’ use of enforced disappearance. Three experts with direct experience provide lessons in how to protest, to mobilize, to fight back.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought the experience of postrevolutionary Cuba to the screen in classic movies like Memories of Underdevelopment and Strawberry and Chocolate. Alea’s committed, artistically dazzling work set a benchmark for political cinema.
The Trump administration’s volatility on foreign policy reveals internal divisions within Trumpism. But when threats and populism lose their momentum, the anti-communist hawks may get their way.
Antifascism and social transformation
Donald Trump’s belligerence toward Latin American leaders raises the prospect of a more concerted regional resistance, one its popular left bloc is well positioned to lead.
The great solidarity movement of 2024
As the world churns
Trujillo is a hard-line supporter of lethal economic sanctions against Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela. He reportedly played a key role in providing the pretext for the 2019 coup d’etat in Bolivia and supported antidemocratic leaders in other countries.
A picket line encircles the planet
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