By Isaac Saney on July 17, 2025
Amilcar Cabral with Fidel.
In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.” This precept demands truth-telling, humility, and a relentless confrontation with reality. It stands in opposition to demagoguery, denial, and the temptation to obscure difficult truths for the sake of appearances. (more…)
By Chris Hedges on July 15, 2025
The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law.
When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning. Her office is tasked with monitoring and reporting on human rights violations that Israel commits against Palestinians. (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on July 12, 2025
Carnaval, Santiago de Cuba, photo: Bill Hackwell
It was not that long ago the shiny new internet and social media world dangled before us visions of instant communications with friends and the possibility of international collaboration for a better world. Increasingly it seems harder to sort through all the layers of ads and fake news. An example of how far the online world has become a political battle ground can be seen in the topic of travel to Cuba. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on July 11, 2025 from Havana
The Marco, Foto: Jose Luis Magana
As someone who fears public attention and backlash on his actions and takes refuge in the end of the week’s wind as people get out of Washington on Friday afternoons, (almost all of his anti-Cuban announcements have been made on that day of the week), Marco Rubio announced new coercive measures against Cuba on July 11. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris, Becca Renk, and John Perry on July 12, 2025
Women hold leadership positions on all levels of the Cuban government, including 56% of its National Assembly, photo: Bill Hackwell
Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the while overlooking significant feminist gains made in the region. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on July 10, 2025
photograph with Members, Partners and Outreach invitees of the 17th BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil on July 7, 2025.
From July 6 to 7, 2025, the 17th annual meeting of the group of countries known as BRICS took place in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting was attended by the founding members, new members, and associate members, for a total of 21 delegations, in addition to special guests. Together, these countries represent 51% of the world’s population and 40% of global annual production of goods and services, depending on the source consulted. (more…)
José Luis Méndez Méndez on July 8, 2025
Cuba is not Alone, photo: Caras y Caretas
When reviewing fake news on social media, so-called “in-depth” comments appear, which are also lies, half-truths, and some of them tailored to perverse interests. A recurring one is: the blockade against Cuba does not exist. (more…)
By René Vázquez Díaz on July 9, 2025
US Chargé d’Affaires in Cuba Mike Hammer
Regarding the dispatch of General Enoch Crowder to Cuba by the State Department in 1919, with the express task of “solving the problem” of President Menocal’s succession, Julio Le Riverend wrote in his rigorous historical account La República (The Republic) :
“From interventionism as a right to daily interference, there was practically no break in continuity. Economically and politically subjugated, Cuba could only suffer these aggressions.” (more…)