W T Whitney

  • Changing history

    A comment on the Historical Pact coalition’s million-vote plurality overflowed with enthusiasm: “June 19 will be remembered as a day of the...

  • The Chilean election

    Chileans on December 19 were facing a defining moment as they voted for a president to replace rightwing billionaire Sebastian Pinera whose second...

  • Sanctions against Venezuela

    Belarusian lawyer and academician Alena Douhan, who in 2020 became the United Nations “Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral...

  • A socialist approach

    Cuba’s socialist approach to developing vaccines against Covid-19 differs strikingly from that of capitalist nations of the world. Cuba’s...

  • Chile’s referendum

    Chileans voted in a national referendum on October 25. Commentary reflects what happened: “We began to dig the grave of the Pinochet-era...

  • Racial divide

    It’s true. Too often, in too many circumstances, for too long, the lives of Black people in the United States don’t matter. Black people fill...

  • Food in Cuba

    Food availability was the top concern of 21 percent of Cubans responding to a recent opinion survey. The question thus comes to the fore of how the...

  • Cuba’s response to the US

    For almost 60 years Cuba has successfully defended its socialist revolution against a steady onslaught of US aggressive actions, serious enough at...

  • Values as weapons

    The George W Bush administration initiated the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program in 2006. The idea was to persuade overseas Cuban doctors...

  • Access to news

    North Americans depending solely on English-language sources for unbiased political information from Latin America have few options. They include...