The Hispanosphere: news from the other side of the world

19/08/2020

The Federation of Canarian Leisure Businesses calls for a "Marshall Plan" of state aid for the lockdown-hit industry.

https://sputniknews.com/business/202008191080218415-over-6000-canary-islands-leisure-and-tourism-firms-face-closure-in-wake-of-uk-travel-ban/

The British government restricted travel to Spain late last month and imposed a two-week quarantine on returning holidaymakers.

03/07/2020

"Fidel’s revolution ensured full employment on egalitarian bases, many of the jobs created where in industry, social services, health, education and high technology sectors, which recruited year after large number of skilled labour that the comprehensive, universal and free education system was churning out, year in, year out."

https://arsnotoria.com/2020/07/03/black-lives-matter-a-lot-in-cuba-since-1959/

by Francisco Dominguez When in 1868, Cuban slave-owner Manuel de Céspedes embarked on a 10-year nationalist uprising against Spain, the colonial master, he did not imagine he would be building not …

24/06/2020

Guyana's victorious opposition must seize the day and take power for themselves:

https://arsnotoria.com/2020/06/24/taking-power-in-guyana/

PPP/C must seize the day by James Tweedie Guyanese caretaker president David Granger still refuses to admit defeat in elections almost four months ago. But the winning People’s Progressive Pa…

17/06/2020

"Four years of hounding and dirty tricks against Trump have only strengthened his claim to be the outsider and underdog battling the Deep State."

https://arsnotoria.com/2020/06/17/an-all-american-coup/

13/06/2020

Guyana: Waiting for Granger to go.

https://arsnotoria.com/2020/06/13/guyana-waiting-for-granger-to-go/

Democracy delayed is democracy denied by James Tweedie Today is the 40th anniversary of the murder of Guyanese revolutionary writer Walter Rodney, a crime his family still believe was ordered by th…

16/05/2020

Another guest post for Ars Notoria:

What do you do when the cure does you more harm than the disease? You stop taking it. Controversially, James Tweedie puts forward an argument for lock-down to be lifted. Will lock-down lead to deat…

07/05/2020

Why Did the Workind Class Vote Tory?, a guest post for the Ars Notoria blog:

https://arsnotoria.com/2020/05/07/why-did-the-working-class-vote-tory/

Photo by ELEVATE on Pexels.com by James Tweedie, Plymouth, May 6th 2020 The one-word answer is: “Brexit.” The Labour Party backed the losing side in the 2016 UK referendum on leaving the EU, despit…