By Ignacio Ramonet on April 22, 2024 on April 21, 2024
Gabriel García Márquez,
I had been told that he was living in Havana but that, as he was ill, he did not want to see anyone. I knew where he used to stay: in a magnificent country house, far from downtown. I phoned and Mercedes, his wife, dispelled my scruples. With warmth she told me: “Not at all, it’s to keep away the heavies. Come, ‘Gabo’ will be happy to see you”. (more…)
By Becca Renk on April 24, 2024
photo: Becca Renk
Yesterday I attended mass. Instead of a priest, the mass was celebrated by Nicaraguan children – 10 fourth and fifth grade students. The kids led the congregation in prayers, passing of the peace, read the gospel and shared a homily. They invited congregants to share reflections on the reading – the Good Shepherd – and they blessed wine and soda crackers and served communion. (more…)
Por Yousef al-Helou.on 23 de abril de 2024
Che in Gaza in 1959
Desde la colonización israelí explícita de la Palestina histórica en 1948 con el apoyo de potencias colonialistas e imperialistas, a saber, Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos, la lucha palestina se ha convertido en una causa mundial. La resistencia fue una respuesta natural a las invasiones e incursiones más conocidas como “la limpieza étnica de Palestina”. (more…)
By Tubal Páez Hernández on April 23, 2024
“In the mural painting I am working on, which I will title Guernica, and in all my latest works, I clearly express my revulsion towards the military caste that has plunged Spain into an ocean of pain and death (…) it is the battle of reaction against the people, against freedom,” Pablo Picasso expressed about the painting that would become a dramatic symbol of the barbarity of war. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 23, 2024
The Quinta de los Molinos Garden is a naturalistic oasis in the heart of Salvador Allende Avenue in Havana, Cuba. The front door leads to another dimension and leaves behind that street through which the noisiest cars in the capital pass. The noise, the asphalt, and the strong smells disappear and a place full of trees, birdsong, flowers, and butterflies opens up. Butterflies, in a city where you can walk from one end to the other without seeing a single one of these winged beauties. (more…)
By Marc Vanderpitte on April 22, 2024
Sources: Rebelion
Some believe and others like to proclaim that international politics is based on values and good intentions. The treatment of Israel and Cuba completely destroys that belief. (more…)
April 22, 2024
250 Cubans have been stranded in Haiti since February, after Sunrise Airways suspended flights between Cuba and Port-au-Prince due to the political crisis and violence in this Central American country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 21, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
April 19, 1961, is marked in the Cuban popular imagination as a day of national pride. Barely 72 hours after the landing of 1500 U.S.-backed mercenaries at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), in Matanzas, Cuba demonstrated to the world its willingness and determination to defend with arms the revolutionary process initiated on January 1, 1959. Witnesses of that three-day battle remember the complexity of the combat. Although Cuba was expecting the attack, it was surreal that it was really happening. (more…)