By Tubal Páez Hernández on April 23, 2024
“In the mural painting I am working on, which I will title Guernica, and in all my latest works, I clearly express my revulsion towards the military caste that has plunged Spain into an ocean of pain and death (…) it is the battle of reaction against the people, against freedom,” Pablo Picasso expressed about the painting that would become a dramatic symbol of the barbarity of war. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 23, 2024
The Quinta de los Molinos Garden is a naturalistic oasis in the heart of Salvador Allende Avenue in Havana, Cuba. The front door leads to another dimension and leaves behind that street through which the noisiest cars in the capital pass. The noise, the asphalt, and the strong smells disappear and a place full of trees, birdsong, flowers, and butterflies opens up. Butterflies, in a city where you can walk from one end to the other without seeing a single one of these winged beauties. (more…)
By Marc Vanderpitte on April 22, 2024
Sources: Rebelion
Some believe and others like to proclaim that international politics is based on values and good intentions. The treatment of Israel and Cuba completely destroys that belief. (more…)
April 22, 2024
250 Cubans have been stranded in Haiti since February, after Sunrise Airways suspended flights between Cuba and Port-au-Prince due to the political crisis and violence in this Central American country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 21, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
April 19, 1961, is marked in the Cuban popular imagination as a day of national pride. Barely 72 hours after the landing of 1500 U.S.-backed mercenaries at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), in Matanzas, Cuba demonstrated to the world its willingness and determination to defend with arms the revolutionary process initiated on January 1, 1959. Witnesses of that three-day battle remember the complexity of the combat. Although Cuba was expecting the attack, it was surreal that it was really happening. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on April 21, 2024 from Havana
When a real and final catastrophe befalls us in Palestine, the first responsible would be the British and the second responsible would be the terrorist organizations formed from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anyone associated with such criminal and deceived people.- Albert Einstein in a letter of April 1948 after learning that Zionist paramilitary groups had murdered more than a hundred Palestinian Arab civilians in a Jerusalem village, Deir Yassin. (more…)
By Andreína Chávez Alava on April 19, 2024
Hillary Clinton went on a late-night talk show recently and told US voters to “get over themselves” and choose between Genocide Joe and Donald Trump in this year’s US presidential elections. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on April 21, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
A minute after midnight on April 18, the US reimposed coercive economic measures designed to cripple Venezuela’s oil industry. Later that day, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a new sanctions bill on Nicaragua. Meanwhile, Cuba protested the US’s six-decade blockade as talks resumed between the two countries on migration. (more…)