October 9, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, praised on Monday the anti-imperialist struggle carried out by Commander Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, who was executed on October 9, 1967 by the Bolivian army. “It is 56 years since the assassination of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, universal symbol of a cause that gathers the resistance and rebellion of the peoples, for the yearning to live in a united and sovereign Latin America,” he said through his X account. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on October 8, 2023 from Buenos Aires
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The events that are shaking Israel and Palestine today, with a tragic toll of civilian casualties, cause pain and compassion and, unfortunately, are not surprising. The attacks launched by Hamas from Gaza are the response to the terrorist policy of conquest and territorial dispossession that the Israeli regime, with the complicity of the United States and its unworthy European vassals, (more…)
From Havana on October 7, 2023
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The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity of Peoples expresses its solidarity with the Palestinian people for the liberation of all the territories occupied by Israel for more than seventy years. (more…)
October 4, 2023
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the United States’ sanctions and blockade policy against Cuba and Venezuela as the cause of increased regional migration. During his daily press conference on Monday, October 2, López Obrador directly linked US imperialist foreign policy in Latin America to the 10,000 daily arrivals of migrants at the US-Mexico border. (more…)
Sun Sentinel Op-Ed by Manuel Gomez on October 4, 2023
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The issue of our Cuba policy has been quiet recently, but it remains a critical component of our overall hemispheric relationships, and it will undoubtedly erupt again in the upcoming senatorial races. In Florida, it will make noise as always, thanks to the extreme-right of my own Cuban American community, (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on October 7, 2023
photo: Jacob Kupferman
A few days before the end of its term in office, the Trump Administration once again included Cuba in the list of countries sponsoring international terrorism together with Iran, North Korea and Syria. The decision was communicated by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 12, 2021 on the lying grounds that “Cuba repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism” (more…)
By Yurina Piñeiro Jiménez on October 6, 2023 from Havana
family member of a victim of Barbados, photo: Ismael Francisco
Today is the 47th anniversary of the CIA orchestrated bombing of a Cuban airliner over Barbados killing 73 people. To this day nobody has paid for the crime and the perpetrators, who openly bragged about their role, have all died peacefully in their homes in Miami. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 5, 2023 from Havana
photo: Ricardo López Hevia
A new tragedy has shaken the whole country as if we had room for one more to endure. A building in the emblematic Old Havana, a few blocks away from the National Capitol, has left a toll of two dead, two rescuers, who died while trying to save lives. The first collapse of the façade of the three-story building left several people buried in the rubble. (more…)