By Cindy Forster on October 2, 2023
In recent weeks, Mayan campesinos set up twenty roadblocks across Guatemala and Indigenous authorities declared themselves on permanent alert. They demand that president-elect Bernardo Arévalo be allowed to take office. Guatemala is Central America’s most populous nation and home to the largest proportion of Indigenous of any country in the hemisphere. It is also the linchpin in the U.S. State Department’s so-called “Northern Triangle” strategy that polices drugs and migration in the “triangle” of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Washington’s support of Arévalo is one measure of the decline of U.S. power in the hemisphere. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor on October 1, 2023
Oakland California, photo: Bill Hackwell
New displays of solidarity with Cuba took place in the United States this weekend as part of that growing movement of support that carries an elementary request: Let live a people whose only sin has been to build and defend a different model under the very noses of the empire. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 30, 2023
diplomat Felix Garcia Rodriguez, machine-gunned on 55th Street in Manhattan on September 11, 1980.
Cuba is included in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism drawn up every year by the U.S. government. The arguments are ridiculous because there is not a single evidence that the island is a threat to anyone in the world. (more…)
September 29, 2023
Angel Guerra
Intellectuals and personalities from Latin America and the world mourn the death of prominent Cuban journalist and political analyst Angel Guerra following the news of his death on Friday in Mexico.
Guerrita, as he was affectionately known by his colleagues and friends at the time of his death, lived in Mexico and wrote his brilliant articles in the newspaper La Jornada.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel said, “My condolences to family and friends of Ángel Guerra, prestigious journalist, active member of the Network of Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity and tireless defender of Cuba and the Revolution.” (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 25, 2023 from Havana
Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine indicted on federal bribery charges.
“In the marrow, in the marrow is the vice, in which life has no object on this earth for love.On this earth there is no other object than the amassing of fortune!”. –Jose Marti (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 28, 2023 from Havana
The 10th Congress of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), an organization founded by Fidel Castro on the historic night of September 28, 1960, concluded in Havana this Thursday after two days of deliberations. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on September 28, 2023 from Havana
Cuban President Diaz Canel with the people in the streets of New York.
There are feelings that are inseparable from human beings. No matter the place, the historical moment or their age. They will always be there. It is something that, in spite of the attempts of women and men for the improvement of their species and for progress, has not been annihilated. (more…)
By Ben Norton on September 27, 2023
Poverty is rising in one of the world’s oldest colonies: In Puerto Rico, 41.7% of people, including 57.6% of children, live in poverty. This is nearly four times the US rate. And Puerto Rican workers are getting poorer even while unemployment falls. (more…)