Edited by Ed Newman on October 17, 2024
Diosdado Cabello said that Venezuelan authorities have seized more than 500 weapons to date. photo: Latest News Venezuela
The Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, offered more details this Thursday about terrorist plans against the country, organized by the U.S. Government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), with the participation of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) of Spain. (more…)
October 16, 2024
Nearly a hundred faculties of public universities are paralyzed and taken over by students and non-teaching staff in protest against Javier Milei’s veto of the university funding law.
The national general secretary of the Student Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (CeFyL-UBA), Luca Bonfante, has confirmed that in over one hundred public universities students are carrying out some ongoing protest measure. (more…)
By Frei Betto on October 16, 2024
image: Rebelion
I am not referring here to the celebrated film (1991) directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. I am referring to all of us who, endowed with a critical conscience, do not know how to act in the face of the vertiginous rise of right-wing politics, (more…)
October 15, 2024
photo: Alejandro Azcuy
“Never has the Palestinian cause seemed more just than in contrast to the repulsive brutality of its adversaries. Humanity will forget neither the heroism of the attacked nor the barbarism of the aggressors” Speech delivered by Fidel Castro at the Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, in New Delhi-India, on March 7, 1983. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez, October 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Introduction
In September 2024, the United Nations (UN) launched a call for a Pact for the Future to guide the achievement of global development goals for humanity. Around the same time, in mid-October 2024, the 25th anniversary of the Budapest World Science Conference was celebrated. This event, held under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Science Council (ISC), was the greatest effort by the global scientific community to alert society and governments around the world to the opportunity to choose a commitment and priority to promote ways of achieving sustainable development and to provide the world with a code of conduct and a framework for action that could lead to the creation and consolidation of a global knowledge society, which in turn could build a sustainable future (UNESCO, 2000). (more…)
By Raul Capote on October 13, 2024
Whenever a powerful nation plans to invade, control, dominate another, the truth suffers a disruption. In the relationship between Cuba and the United States, lies have been a warlike resource used by the Empire to achieve its objectives of domination over the island. (more…)
By Yimel Diaz Malmierca on October 13, 2024
The hostile U.S. policy against Cuba has accumulated too many examples of damage for the more than 60 years of its existence. Its application has been perfected over time. (more…)
By Ana Perdigón on October 13, 2024
March in Colombia in support of President Gustavo Petro. Photo: Social media.
Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro. With the slogan “I march against the coup”, various political and social forces of the Colombian left gathered in Plaza Bolívar in Bogotá. (more…)