January 3, 2025
Sally O’Brien, American journalist and activist and friend of Cuba, receiving the Felix Elmuza Distinction this year. Photo: Yoandry Avila Guerra.
Last December 30, as it was preparing to say goodbye to another year, Cuba suffered the forced farewell of a friend: that day Sally O’Brien, the communicator and activist who taught many Cubans “to look at the United States from the perspective of its most committed children”, died in her modest apartment in Brooklyn, New York. (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad on January 4, 2025
Nicolás has been there. He has proof, in his way and his means of obedience to his people Photo: VTV
In the years that Nicolás Maduro has been obeying the mandate given to him by his people through the direct, universal and secret vote, through the dialectic of all conflicts or through the legacy of Hugo Chávez, a long lost friend of the soul, he has matured in his own way, a side of struggle that radiates clarity and clears paths from the very interior of Bolivarian socialism and Chavista humanism. (more…)
January 3, 2024
Fernando Gonzalez, President of ICAP. photos: Bill Hackwell
As the island goes through one of its worst economic crises, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando Gonzalez, believes that international solidarity is now “more essential than ever.” (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 2, 2025 from Havana
Cienfuegos chess match, photo: Bill Hackwell
Twenty-one artillery blasts marked the beginning of the new year in Havana, Cuba, a tradition that for exactly two decades has also heralded the arrival of a new anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. Twenty-one cannon shots could be heard in almost every corner of the capital, in a solemn ceremony, as required by military regulations, and as a reminder that, no matter how difficult the circumstances may be, year after year, the country stands firm. (more…)
By Gustavo Veiga on January 2, 2024
Trump and Rubio, photo: Estrategia
In the foreign policy dialogue to be implemented by Marco Rubio, the new US Secretary of State, there is no room for subtleties. He is a hawk and does not bother to hide it. He said it recently, “Under President Trump’s leadership, we will deliver peace through strength.” Not the other way around, as a Gandhian or Mandela principle on the power of peace would indicate. Hispanic, son of Cubans, the Republican senator is a genuine political product of Florida. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 2, 2025 from Havana
Fidel and Jimmy Carter at the funeral of Pierre Trudeau. photo: National Post
On October 3, 2000, the first face-to-face meeting between Fidel Castro and James Carter took place. The Cuban leader and the former U.S. president were attending the funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the father of Canada’s current prime minister, at the Basilica of Notre Dame in old Montreal. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on January 2, 2024
Crisis or exceptional situations are a constant in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), not an alteration of a supposed normality we never knew in this, the most unjust continent in the world. And, for the record, the closest to “American Rome”, as Martí called U.S. imperialism. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on January 1, 2025.
photo: Bill Hackwell
The year that ended once again tested the resistance and strength of Cubans, in the midst of the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade, reinforced by the administration of Joe Biden, continuation of the policy of maximum pressure imposed by Donald Trump, and more than 60 years of U.S. economic warfare against Cuba. (more…)