By Randy Alonso Falcón on October 16, 2023, from Havana
Gráfica: Edilberto Carmona Tamayo
“Life is a succession of lessons that one must live to understand.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in a world of hypocrisy, beautifully adorned and dosed by the mass media, in which the powerful seek at all costs to impose a unique look and interpretation of events. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor with photos by Bill Hackwell on October 14, 2023
NNOC co chairs Shaquille Fontenot and Cheryl Labash open the annual conference.
They came to Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, from all over the country on their own resources. Some paid for over priced plane tickets to this region of New England, some took buses, but regardless it was worth it because “Cuba is calling us,” as a young activist from Virginia told me. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 13, 2023
Peruvian in the streets call for Boularte, usurper resign
Peru is in the news again. Hundreds of people have returned to the streets against the regime of Dina Boluarte, who is entrenched in the government, does not give in to the demands for early elections, and does not do justice for the deaths left by police brutality during the protests unleashed at the beginning of this year. The panorama is bleak. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 13, 2023 from Havana
gaza
No medicine, no water, no electricity, no fuel. Hunger and desperation as a political weapon. “We are fighting animals and we act accordingly,” said Israel’s Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, when announcing the total encirclement against the Gaza Strip. (more…)
October 10. 2023
cease the escalation of violence against the Palestinian people.
Given the escalation of violence in recent days, the death of so many Palestinian and Israeli civilians, caused by more than 70 years of occupation and massacre against the Palestinian territory and its people, and aggravated by the neo-fascist coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity calls for the need and urgency of restoring dialogue. (more…)
By Alvaro Verzi Rangel on October 10, 2023
photo: Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency
The unexpected offensive launched last Saturday by the Palestinian group Hamas on various points of Israel’s territory, as well as the devastating military response by Tel Aviv and the rapid escalation of the conflict, in which the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah got involved hours later by attacking Israeli positions near the Lebanese border, adds an explosive ingredient to the already unstable world scenario. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 10, 2023
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
Every October 10th is a reason for national pride. On that day in 1868, 155 years ago, Cubans began the struggle for the independence of the island, then known as the “most precious jewel of the Spanish crown,” which lived under a humiliating submission amid an unstoppable process of love for the homeland. (more…)
October 7, 2023
US Southern Command General Laura Richardson leading a meeting with Guyana’s Defense Chief of Staff Brigadier Omar Khan.
Caracas has warned about US interference in Guyana and how the US Southern Command uses Guyana to orchestrate attacks against Venezuela. In an interview with Sputnik, analyst Martín Pulgar accused Washington of the “economic and political exploitation” of the Essequibo territory against the interests of Venezuela. (more…)