December 18, 2024
Carlos de Cossio
Cuba is willing to sit down with the United States in search of a serious relationship, based on respect for sovereignty, self-determination and non-interference in internal affairs, official sources said today. (more…)
Regional leaders gather for the XXIV Summit of Heads of State and Government in Caracas, Venezuela.
The official communiqué reaffirmed the member states’ commitment to Latin American and Caribbean integration, solidarity, and peace. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 19, 2024
The reopening of the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC on July 20, 2015, photo: Bill Hackwell
Of the thaw in relations between Cuba and the United States, which entered its tenth anniversary this December 17, only the embassies in both countries, a handful of bilateral agreements and meetings and access from the island to Netflix and Arbnb have survived. In other words, almost nothing. (more…)
By David Brooks on December 18, 2024
“There’s a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in,” is a fragment of Leonard Cohen’s song Anthem, and at the dawn of a political and social era that promises to be among the darkest in modern U.S. history, the cracks are essential to be able to illuminate this American twilight. (more…)
December 16, 2024
Guyanese President Irfaan Ali is received with a guard of honor by the US Southern Command
The United States exerts control over sources of raw materials and trade routes through sanctions, blockades, and military bases. These bases are distributed across the planet and determine global geopolitics; their strategic assurance activities are complemented by training troops from satellite or occupied countries where they are installed. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo, Victor Villalba and Syara S. Massip on December 17, 2024 from Havana
Photo: Alejandro Azcuy Domínguez.
“Our battle will be difficult and long, these are five strong, heroic men, with very deep convictions, whose minds and ideas could not change, who could not be made to waver for a second, despite the rigors and pressures to which they were subjected since their arrest.” – Fidel (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 17, 2024
Ten days before Donald Trump will be inaugurated in Washington DC on January 20, there will be another inauguration in Caracas. Two contenders claim they will receive the Venezuelan presidential sash. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on December 17, 2024
Celebration in Washington DC after the return of the Cuban 5 to their homeland. photos: Bill Hackwell
On that December 17, Cubans, Americans and citizens from all over the world began the day with news and rumors that foretold that it would be a singular day. It was reported that at midday both Army General Raul Castro Ruz and President Barack Obama would make public announcements. (more…)