By Vijay Prashad September 8, 2023
photo: Gracia Barrios (Chile), Multitud III 1972
Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given a green light by the US government, did not leave their barracks. President Salvador Allende, who led the Popular Unity government, went to his office in La Moneda in Santiago to announce a plebiscite on his government and to ask for the resignation of several senior generals. Then, Allende continued his fight to bring down inflation and to realize his government’s program to advance the socialist agenda in Chile. (more…)
By Carlos Amorín on September 9, 2023
photo: Gerardo Iglesias
50 years after the coup d’état, without forgetting or forgiveness.
On June 29 of that same year there was even a general rehearsal of a coup that became known as “El Tanquetazo”, because more than a dozen armored vehicles, among them some tanks, together with 70 soldiers, arrived in downtown Santiago trying to take La Moneda, the seat of the Presidency. They were repulsed by the loyal forces commanded by General Carlos Prats. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on September 6, 2023
photo: Enrique González Enro
My friend Cuban troubadour Ray Fernandez says in one of his songs, “If only I had the patience.” Of course you have it, you have to have it.
Every day is a new thing that the Cuban people have to put up with, not only from the U.S. administration that makes life impossible for them with its well-known hostile policies, but also from their dogs that defend their master even if they sleep in the yard, rain or shine. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 7, 2023 from Havana
photo: Anadolu Agency
The “news” that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world. (more…)
By Geraldina Colloti on September 6, 2023
September 11, 1973, Allende’s body is taken from the Presidential Palace
For the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing. Among them, the journalistic investigation by Francisco Marín Castro (sociologist, writer and director of the newspaper El Ciudadano) and Luis Ravanal Zepeda (forensic doctor), Allende, autopsia de un crimen, recently published in Chile by ediciones Ceibo. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 5, 2023 from Havana
photo: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
Cuba has dawned beautifully these past two days the weather was good and more than one million children of all ages have returned to the classroom. With the first light of day, they can be seen walking down the avenues on their way to school, many hand in hand with their parents or grandparents, and in a feast of white, red, yellow, and blue, all colors of their uniforms. (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on September 5, 2023
Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat
According to State Department sources, there is an operation underway against the Cuban Revolution executed by Orlando Gutierrez Boronat, an ultra-right-winger linked to the U.S. intelligence services and who has just recently traveled to Ukraine. The objective here is to complicate the G77+China summit to be held in Havana to be held in Havana on September 15-16, and to sabotage the presence of President Díaz-Canel in New York for the 78th United Nations Assembly starting September 19. (more…)
By Tanalís Padilla on September 5, 2023
Cuban and Angolan soldiers. courtesy: Gerardo Hernandez
Last month, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa. In the latter country he participated in the summit of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in the capacity that Cuba holds as president of the grouping of G-77 nations and China. The trip was significant both for the historical solidarity between Cuba and Africa and for the possibilities of strengthening relations between the countries of the global south. (more…)