(2022-04-01). Despiden en Madrid a 6 000 trabajadores de la salud. cubadebate.cu Cuando alguna vez se le ha preguntado a Isabel Díaz Ayuso por la petición de los sanitarios para que se refuercen las plantillas ante el deterioro de la sanidad, su respuesta ha sido que "no hay médicos para contratar". Una afirmación que contrasta con la última decisión del Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid que preside que despedirá este jueves a 6 000 sanitarios.
(2022-04-01). National Endowment for the Arts report lifts the lid on the devastation of the US arts economy. wsws.org Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy, according to the NEA study, "shed more than half a million jobs (604,000 workers)—not counting self-employed artists and other cultural workers."
(2022-03-31). President Maduro to Visit South Africa (+Multipolarity). orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, March 30, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted his country's struggle for a multipolar and multicentric world during the farewell ceremony for the ambassadors of South Africa and Nicaragua, Joseph Khehla and Yaosca Calderón Martín, respectively, held in the Simón Bolívar Hall at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. | "Venezuela has been, is, and will be the epicenter of the struggles for a new world, an egalitarian world, which can already be seen on the horizon," said the president, recalling the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist legacy of the South American continent. | At the ceremon…
(2022-03-31). Some Guantánamo Prisoners Fear Transfer to US Prisons Due to Brutal Conditions. truthout.org Since the prison at Guantánamo Bay opened in its "war on terror" iteration in 2002, there has been a tendency among liberal critics to hold it in stark relief to the "normal" civilian legal system. The cruelty and illegitimacy of Guantánamo Bay was contrasted against the inherent perceived legitimacy of U.S. courts and prisons. For as long as the detention center and the various tribunals have been around, it's been common to hear arguments against them from human rights NGOs based on the efficacy and security of the civilian apparatus — the success rate of terrorism prosecutions, or the fact that no prison…
(2022-03-31). European Anti-Migrant Policies Gave Rise to Horrific Refugee Jails in Libya. truthout.org Image Credit: Sally Hayden | Western countries have opened their doors to millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their homeland, presenting a model of how refugees should be welcomed. But their experience stands in stark contrast to how African refugees are treated when attempting to reach Europe to escape war, hunger and despair. In her new book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route, author Sally Hayden details how a single message from an Eritrean refugee held in a Libyan detention center led her on a years-long journey to document the human rights disaster on E…