December 20, 2016
Panamanians marked the 27th anniversary Tuesday of the 1989 U.S. invasion of the Central American country as the exact number of victims remains unknown more than a quarter of a century after the events. (more…)
By Micaela Ryan on December 15, 2016
A new military agreement has been signed by the Argentine Ministry of Defense, Julio Martínez, and the US ambassador in the country, Noah Mahmet. The measure was announced by Mahmet and the Argentine representative in Washington, Martín Lousteau on December 13, behind closed doors, in the Argentine Embassy. (more…)
December 17, 2016
We call on all the intellectuals, artists and social movements of the Network in Defense of Humanity to denounce the true nature of those, using typically fascist methods, have decided once again to plague South America with death, inequality and poverty.
The Cuban Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity considers that: (more…)
December 16, 2016
A member of the Cuban five, Rene Gonzalez, who spent 15 years as a political prisoner in the U.S., has launched a campaign to remember “prisoners of conscience” held in U.S. jails in response to a similar campaign launched last week by United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. (more…)
December 12, 2016
Palestinian prominent former hunger striker and leader of the prisoners’ movement Bilal Kayed was released today, Monday, 12 December, after 15 years in Israeli prisons to the cheers and salutes of his family, friends and comrades in his home village of Asira al-Shamaliyeh, throughout Palestine and internationally. (more…)
Remarks by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, during the political posthumous tribute to Comandante en Jefe of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, in Santiago de Cuba’s Plaza Mayor General Antonio Maceo Grajales, December 3, 2016, “Year 58 of the Revolution”
Esteemed Heads of State and Government;
Outstanding figures;
Compatriots here today in representation of the eastern provinces and Camagüey;
People of Santiago de Cuba;
Dear people of Cuba: (more…)
By Cathy Dos Santos on November 29, 2016
An interview with Salim Lamrani, expert in US-Cuba relations. He explains the reasons behind Fidel Castro’s aura and the leader’s place in the revolution in a changing society.
As a Cuba specialist you have just published a book dedicated to Fidel Castro (1). Is it possible to characterize the trajectory of this man, whose stature is recognized even by his detractors? (more…)
By John Wight on December 6, 2016
The killing and wounding of Russian medical personnel in a rocket attack on a military field hospital in Aleppo raises again the question of who is actively lending support to the terrorists in Syria, people depicted in the West as ‘moderates’ in a monstrous inversion of the truth. (more…)