Who Pays the Bill?

By Pasqualina Curcio on August 3, 2020

Caracas, Photo: Bill Hackwell

This is the title of OXFAM’s latest report from July 2020. In that report they propose that in order to face the (more…)

US Blockade Cost Cuba More Than $4 Billion in One Year

August 24, 2018

Ceramic factory, photo: Bill Hackwell

Between April 2017 and March 2018, U.S. policy towards Cuba intensified and the economic aggression and siege cost the Caribbean country more than $4.321 billion dollars, (more…)

The Human Carnage from Billionaires Carving Up the Planet to Build Their Empires Is Astounding

By Vijay Prashad on August 16, 2017

Photo: Bill Hackwell

Raoul Peck, the Haitian filmmaker, opens his new film – Der Junge Karl Marx (2017) – in the forests of Prussia. Peasants gather fallen wood. They look cold and hungry. (more…)

Criminalizing Critics of Israel: Congress Considers Sweeping Bills to Fine & Jail Supporters of BDS

July 21, 2017

Photo: Bill Hackwell

U.S. lawmakers are seeking to criminally outlaw support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. (more…)

Obama has Fined 49 Companies Over $14 Billion for Violating the Blockade against Cuba since the “Thaw”

October 6, 2016

Photo: Bill Hackwell

Photo: Bill Hackwell

A total of 49 fines have been imposed, during Barack Obama’s Administration, to US and foreign entities for violating the US Embargo against Cuba according to the records of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Government. (more…)

Obama Opened a Door between Cuba and the US. Why is Biden Closing it Again?

By Bhaskar Sunkara

photo: Bill Hackwell

On 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in force. (more…)

“Earthquake in Miami”

By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 28, 2024

Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell

On March 17, extraordinary events took place in Cuba, which once again received disproportionate coverage in the social networks and some foreign media considering the type of disasters we are experiencing in today’s world. They are “extraordinary in Cuba” because this has not been a country where the forces of law and order walk with long guns in the streets, there are no armored cars to confront demonstrations with strong jets of water, nor are there cases of loss of eyes due to the use of rubber bullets. (more…)

Argentina: Massive Demonstration Commemorates the 1976 Coup and Say No to Milei’s Rewriting of History

By Bill Hackwell on March 24, 2024 from Buenos Aires

30,000 Alive in Truth! photo: Bill Hackwell

Hundreds of thousands are still in the streets here that lead to the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential palace. Since 2002 March 24, has been officially recognized and referred to as the National Day of Memory  marking the beginning of the 1976 military coup that disappeared, tortured and murdered at least 30,000 people. (more…)

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