Article and photos by Yaimi Ravelo on September 4, 2023 from Havana
Workers of the Copacabana Hotel on behalf of the Cuban people paid tribute today to Fabio Di Celmo, a young Italian who was a victim of a terrorist attack perpetrated from the United States against Cuba, in this tourist center 26 years ago. (more…)
By Peter Bolton on September 1, 2023
On August 20, Ecuadorians went to the polls to elect a new president just over two years since the previous presidential elections of 2021. Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution party topped the poll with 33%. But since no candidate achieved the necessary threshold to win in the first round, the election will now be decided via a run-off election in October. She will face political newcomer Daniel Noboa of the center-right National Democratic Action Party, who surprised political observers by placing second in a crowded field with 24% of votes counted. (more…)
By Arthur Gonzalez on September 2, 2023
The war that the United States is waging against Cuba is broad and covers politics, economy, culture, sports, health, education and everything they can do to hinder the development of the island, with the purpose of preventing the satisfaction of the people through their media campaigns projecting socialism as a failed system. (more…)
September 2, 2023
Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo in a press conference with Vice President-elect Karin Herrer Photo: Esteban Biba/EFE.
The president-elect of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, denounced “a coup d’état in progress” in the country, where the Congress has refused to recognize the parliamentary bloc of his party, the Semilla Movement, after the party’s legal status was temporarily suspended by the judiciary. (more…)
September 1, 2023
photo: Brazil de Fato
On Thursday Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva presented an ambitious plan to take the South American country off of the world hunger map. “The problem is not a lack of food, it is not a lack of crops, the problem is that the people do not have enough to buy food,” Lula said in a public event in the city of Teresina. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 31, 2023 from Havana
‘with guard up’ photo: Bill Hackwell
During the upcoming weeks, all of Cuba will be involved in the preparations for the X Congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), the largest mass organization in the country, with activities that seek to create a social impact in the island’s communities. (more…)
August 30, 2023
photo: Manel Marquez.
The Chilean government will launch this Wednesday the National Search Plan for the Detainees Disappeared during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. (more…)
By Susana Hurlich on August 30, 2023 from Havana
BRICS has now become a force that can no longer be ignored. Founded in 2006 as BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), in 2010 South Africa joined to create BRICS. With a commitment to inclusive multilateralism, cooperation and the common good, BRICS aspires to offer itself and the global south a real alternative to western hegemony and the manipulative domination of the U.S. dollar. (more…)