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A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Sahra Wagenknecht

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The fact that there is a split on the left is nothing exceptional, what is new about this is that the exit is to the left, led by such charismatic politicians as the deputy Sahra Wagenknecht (she was vice president of the party and is the wife of the historic leftist leader Oskar Lafontaine) and the polls give him a voting intention of up to 14%, which would mean fourth place, only behind the Christian Democrats of the CDU, the ultras of the AfD and hot on the heels of the Social Democrats of the SPD.

Kenya: the Commonwealth's spearhead in Africa

9 min read DAVID SOLER CRESPO

DAVID SOLER CRESPO
Nairobi
Now, Africa is more important than ever. While in the Caribbean countries like Barbados have taken the step of becoming a republic in 2021 and after the death of Elizabeth II others like Jamaica or Australia are considering doing the same and even leaving the organization, on the African continent the opposite is true.

It is no longer just the former British colonies that want to join, but also other French-speaking countries that are turning to this association, tired of their relations with their former colonial power.

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A report from the US Congress recognizes the success of Russian media in Latin America

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Under the title “Russian influence campaigns in Latin America,” the so-called United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released a report a few days ago on the importance of Russian communications policy in Latin America, and especially its international media such as the Sputnik agency and Russia Today television. The USIP is a nonpartisan public institute, founded by Congress, as they say "with the mission of helping to prevent, mitigate and resolve violent conflicts abroad."

Among other things, the report highlights that Russia's communications policies have found fertile ground in Latin America" to "counteract the Western liberal order led by the United States."

José Manuel Martín Medem in Madrid. Photo: Paola Gómez

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Martín Medem: the idea of public service that governed the media has been adulterated

9 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
José Manuel Martín Medem is a veteran Spanish journalist specialized in Latin American information. He was a correspondent for RTVE in Mexico, Colombia and Cuba for a decade and is now a member of its Board of Directors. In 1982, he was awarded the National Human Rights Journalism Award.

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The polls in Poland give a boost to Brussels and Zelensky

6 min read RICARD GONZALEZ

RICARD GONZALEZ
warsaw
Never before have elections in Poland been followed with so much interest beyond its borders, especially in Brussels, kyiv and Moscow. Two very different, if not antithetical, projects faced each other at the polls, both in foreign and domestic policy. The opposition's victory was received with relief and satisfaction both in the heart of the European Union and in Ukraine, although instead of a solution to its underlying problems, the result represents rather a lifeline of perhaps several months.

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Carmen Domingo: «In the world of football, equality between men and women has never been accepted»

6 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Carmen Domingo is a Spanish philologist and feminist writer. Many of her works have focused on research and dissemination of the history of women in our country during the 2022th century. In recognition of them, she was appointed curator of Women Writers' Day at the National Library in XNUMX. We spoke with her about the Rubiales case.

The presidents of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger sign in Bamako the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States

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The end of French neocolonialism in Africa?

7 min read ZOE ALEXANDRA and VIJAY PRASHAD

ZOE ALEXANDRA AND VIJAY PRASHAD
On September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Bamako, the Malian capital.

It is clear that it is not a simple military or security pact. It remains to be seen whether these countries will be able to create an economic agenda that benefits their people and thereby ensure that France has no means to exert its authority over the region.

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The two receptions of the BRI

4 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
The Belt and Road Initiative (IFR) celebrates its first decade of implementation in 2023. The time elapsed supports it as a long-term project. Two attitudes have marked the global reaction to it. On the one hand, developing countries have celebrated being able to have an alternative proposal that focuses on their most pressing needs, especially in terms of infrastructure.

China's plan provides specific support in areas poorly served by traditional available financing, filling a gap of singular importance. On the other hand, developed countries have evolved from initial ambiguity and reservation to a certain competitive hostility.

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Joaquín Araujo: the rise in temperatures and droughts herald a not-so-distant hydric collapse

8 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Joaquín Araújo is a Spanish naturist, writer and journalist who has dedicated a large part of his life to making humanity aware of the dangers and suffering that the ecological degradation of the planet can cause. In this summer season in the northern hemisphere, with all the alarms going off due to the unstoppable rise in temperatures and the lack of water, we talked to him about the threat of climate change.

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The transformation of Russia and the scenes of war

9 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
It took them years in Moscow to understand the seriousness of the Western globalist project that envisioned a subaltern Russia with a comprador national elite subordinated to the large Western transnationals. They were slow to understand that there was no intention of recognizing "sovereignties" or private preserves of the Russian oligarchic elite derived from the traditional state control that this elite has of business, privatizations and embezzlement in the largest country in the world.

Westerners wanted unrestricted free access for their multinationals to Eurasian resources, and of course recognized no political, economic, or military "zones of influence" beyond their own hegemonic domain. Moscow's initial collaboration was seen as weakness and Putin's repeated complaints ignored for years.

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Democracy, preliminaries for the 'fitna'

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The crisis of liberal democracy is rampant everywhere. In essence, it does not respond solely to a lack of leadership, but also to convictions that are increasingly deeply rooted in individuals from different layers of Western society. To this must be added the clearly reactionary values on the rise, including identity values that are at war with the rationalism that originated with the Enlightenment.

The result is a more fragile society, barely able to cope with the challenges of the times, with many people who see liberal values as unbearable oppression and seek direct confrontation with the enemy without realizing that this attitude carries risks. .

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Arabi: Rabat has exerted enormous pressure to condition the Spanish government

10 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The Polisario Front celebrates 50 years today since it was founded in Maurtinaia on May 10, 1973. We spoke with Abdulah Arabi, the front's delegate in Spain, about the situation in Western Sahara after the drastic change in the position of the Spanish Government, which in March 2022, he supported Morocco's position in the conflict.