By Natalia Marques on September 3, 2024
Workers on strike at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Photo: UNITE HERE/X)
Over 10,000 hotel workers , organized by hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE, went on strike early Sunday morning across the United States in pursuit of fair wages, better working conditions, and more staff to help. As working people across the United States are increasingly squeezed economically, hotel workers are coming together on the picket line under the slogan “one job should be enough!” (more…)
September 3, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Deputy Cilia Flores, leaving the jet seized by the US. Photo: RedRadioVE
The United States again stole a Venezuelan aircraft, the Dassault Falcon 900EX with license plate T7-ESPRT, this time in the Dominican Republic. The operation, led by the Department of Justice, in its statement on the event reports that the aircraft was transferred to the Southern District of the state of Florida, to the city of Fort Lauderdale. (more…)
By Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba on September 2, 2024
Today Cuban schools opened their doors to receive more than one million 600 thousand students of the General Education System as a new school year begins. From very early in the morning, a parade in white, red and blue could be seen, where anxiety and joy were the protagonists of the encounter between the children of the previous year and the new ones, teachers, professors and students. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on September 2, 2024 from Havana
Photo: Enrique González (Enro)/ Cubadebate
Us. We revolutionaries, of Cuba and the world, if there is something we have to have, it is clarity. The enemy mutates, the context as well, but always behind it is the same background: to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
August 31, 2024
Illustration: Cubadebate
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported Friday that it is ending its investigation of what is commonly known as “Havana syndrome,” a mysterious illness experienced by a number of spies, soldiers and diplomats who have reported sudden debilitating symptoms of unknown origin. (more…)
August 31, 2024
Honduran President Xiomara Castro. Photo: Xiomara Castro / X
Honduran President Xiomara Castro announced on August 28 that she ordered the suspension of the extradition agreement between her country and the United States. The move was in response to comments made by the US Ambassador to Honduras, Laura Dogu, regarding different high-ranking Honduran officials who had traveled to Venezuela. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on August 31, 2024
Havana, August 31 (RHC)– A shipment of 800 tons of wheat flour — collected by solidarity activists in the U.S. — has arrived in Cuba. The donation will provide bread for millions of people in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Matanzas and Havana. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 30, 2024
Image: Ajijchan.
How long does it take to change a child’s mind? The question was posed by Fidel Castro in December 1999 to psychologists, neuroscientists and pedagogues, when Miami relatives kidnapped the child Elián González, shipwrecked between the borders of Cuba and the US. (more…)