By Randy Alonso Falcón on October 30, 2023
It is becoming commonplace that every late October, shortly after commemorating the National Culture Day, Cuba is shaken by the controversy of the Halloween celebration. Not only because of the debate on the relevance or not of its celebration in these lands, but also because of events that occur on that date and call for social reflection. (more…)
By Graciela Ramirez on October 26, 2023 from Havana
Fayez Abed in Gaza hospital
I met the young Palestinian Fayez Abed in 2013 when he had just arrived in Cuba, he barely spoke Spanish. Tall, cheerful, big beautiful eyes with a smile always, like all his compatriots, committed to their beloved Palestine and just causes. (more…)
By Jessica Dos Santos on October 28, 2023
If a genie, or a demon, showed up and said “I’m granting you six months to improve your precarious life,” what would you do? That is more or less the dilemma the Venezuelan government faces today. (more…)
By Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of Cuba on October 28, 2023
photo: Palestinian journalist Hosam Salem
Sixty-three years ago, in a historic speech before the United Nations General Assembly, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, said and I quote: (more…)
October 28, 2023
October 26, Kent England
Around 150 protesters, including health care workers, teachers and academics from various British trade unions, on Thursday blocked the two entrances to the Instro Precision Ltd factory, a subsidiary of Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, located in Sandwich, in Kent, in the southeast of the United Kingdom. (more…)
Article and Photos by Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba on October 28, 2023 from Havana
“I sing to you, because it is not true that you are dead, Camilo.
I sing to you, because you are alive and not because you are dead.
Because you are alive in the soul of the people of your love,
in the laughter of the children and in the green of the palms”. (more…)
By Taroa Zúñiga Silva on October 29, 2023
A few days before the October 22 elections in Argentina, almost 90 percent of the polls indicated that the winner would be Javier Milei, the “insane” candidate of the right—as described by Estela de Carlotto, president of the legendary human rights group Abuelas de Plaza Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza Mayo). (more…)
By Gustavo Espinoza M. on October 23, 2023
US military forces arrive in Peru
Walt Whitman in his beautiful tribute to Abraham Lincoln announced to us that the legacy of the valiant woodsman, turned president has become extinct, or is about to perish. It would seem that this painful premonition is coming true, as expressed by current U.S. government spokespersons. (more…)