By Pasqualina Curcio on August 3, 2020
This is the title of OXFAM’s latest report from July 2020. In that report they propose that in order to face the (more…)
August 24, 2018
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…)
By Vijay Prashad on August 16, 2017
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…)
July 21, 2017
U.S. lawmakers are seeking to criminally outlaw support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. (more…)
October 6, 2016
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…)
By Bhaskar Sunkara
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…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 28, 2024
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…)
By Bill Hackwell on March 24, 2024 from Buenos Aires
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…)