By Horacio Duque on March 1, 2025
ex Colombian president Alvaro Uribe
Lawfare is the legal war that the fascist far right has been waging since 2022 against the government of President Gustavo Petro of Colombia and his programmatic platform of structural transformations to achieve peace, social and environmental justice. (more…)
February 28, 2025
Cuba ambassador to the UN Rodolfo Benitez
Cuba’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Rodolfo Benítez, on Thursday described the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people as genocide and denounced the complicity of the United States for its support with arms and funds.
The current humanitarian catastrophe is the continuation of more than seven decades of illegal occupation, abuse, attacks and exclusion, he emphasized when he spoke here in an interactive dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem.
The diplomat rejected Washington’s support for Israel in its outrages in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with arms, money and the veto in the UN Security Council, and the complicit silence of other countries, which he did not mention.
Cubans rally for Palestine on the steps of the University of Havana, photo; Bill Hackwell
In his speech, the Cuban diplomat asked the forum: “How many more children and women must be massacred before the international community acts and provides the international protection that the Palestinian people urgently need?”
He also warned that every minute of impunity and passivity means that more innocents continue to be killed, maimed, detained and displaced.
Benítez also reiterated the island’s categorical opposition to any plan to expel the Palestinians from their territory, and recalled that to attempt to do so would be classified as a serious crime of ethnic cleansing under international law.
This rejection takes place in a context of growing global condemnation of President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States to take control of the Gaza Strip, in a kind of real estate and tourism project that ignores the consequences for its inhabitants and neighboring countries.
“Gaza belongs to Palestine, not to Washington or Tel Aviv,” he said.
The Cuban representative demanded respect for the Palestinians’ right to self-determination and to build their own independent and sovereign state and insisted on the need to realize that right as the only effective way to stop the spiral of violence, save human lives and chart a viable course towards peace.
Source: Cuba en Resumen
By Alfredo Prieto on February 27, 2025
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. Photo: Jason Andrew, EFE
The Secretary of Health and Human Resources of the Trump Administration has visited the island more than once in the past, met with Fidel Castro and expressed criticism of his country’s hostile policy towards Cuba. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on February 26, 2025.
February 27, 1989, Venezuelans rise up against the austerity measures of the Fourth Republic.
At the UN Human Rights Council, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has denounced the instrumentalization of the issue of human rights as a weapon to reverse the progress of revolutionary democracy. And he recalled that, at the time of the Caracazo, when the human rights of the people protesting against the neoliberal package imposed on the government by the International Monetary Fund were clearly violated, no protest was raised at the headquarters of international organizations. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 27, 2025
Sacha
Francisco López Sacha spent the last days of his life lying in bed meekly awaiting death. He refused to eat, to drink water, to walk, when he learned that he had an illness that would lead to extreme suffering. At the age of 74, he had decided to resign from life. A resignation that became effective last Sunday, February 16th, and has moved the Cuban intelligentsia, because he was perhaps the most unanimously loved and admired of Cuban writers. (more…)
February 26, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Haiti Action Committee denounces the latest white supremacist attack by the Trump Administration directed at Haitians living in the US. The announcement that the US will end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians puts a target on the back of over 500,000 Haitians. It is, quite simply, a plan for ethnic cleansing – and it must be opposed. (more…)
By John Perry on February 25, 2025
USAID a trojan horse in Nicaragua
U.S. President Donald Trump has just closed down USAID after Elon Musk branded it “a criminal organization,” adding “it’s time for it to die.” Is there any truth to Musk’s allegation? (more…)
February 25, 2025
More than 600,000 immigrant children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent or legal guardian since 2019. (more…)