By Alejandra Garcia on June 21, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Food production, marketing, and prices are some of the issues that most concern Cubans and is what most directly impacts our quality of life. Although this is a strategic and priority sector for Cuba, it is directly connected to the current economic situation of the country, aggravated by the impact of the US economic, commercial, and financial blockade. (more…)
By Luis Bruschtein on June 17, 2023
Christina Kirshner, photo: Télam
There is a message in the new name Union for the Homeland, that the progressive and left partys came up with, as it puts the focus on the debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Like all messages, it may or may not be applied, because of the internal problems, but in any case it implies a commitment. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on June 19, 2023
Iran President Ebrahim Raisi
The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, concluded this Friday in Havana, a trip to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba that aimed to denounce the U.S. sanctions suffered by the four countries and the imperialist policy and to create new economic and commercial agreements to promote the development of their peoples. (more…)
By José Ernesto Guerrero on June 14, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
We will only be able to successfully confront capitalism, its colonizing desires and the neo-fascism that beats in its entrails from a common class front, from a fully emancipated consciousness. (more…)
An Interview with Cuban hero René González by Geraldina Colotti on June 16, 2023
Rene Gonzalez
At the international forum entitled “Lawfare against Venezuela: three years after the kidnapping of diplomat Alex Saab”, which concluded in Caracas, we interviewed Rene Gonzalez, who was present at the closing panel. René is one of the five Cuban agents who had infiltrated the anti-Castro movement in Miami, for which he spent 15 years in U.S. prisons. (more…)
June 16, 2023
Have you seen any Chinese here? “No. Well… On 22nd Street there’s a Chinese family. But they’ve lived here since I was a child.” photo:Luis de Jesús Reyes
Yesterday a BreakThrough News team went to the municipality of Bejucal, just outside Havana where the US government says a Chinese spy base is located. (more…)
June 17, 2023
Jorge Rodríguez, President of the Venezuela National Assembly
The Venezuelan National Assembly (NA) has issued a statement in response to the recent declarations made by former US President Donald Trump, where he publicly confesses that during his term in office he was about to make Venezuela collapse. These statements sought to question the fact that Joe Biden’s government is currently buying oil from the country, arguing that it could have been stolen. (more…)
By Ajamu Baraka on June 14, 2023
At the National Network On Cuba, 2022 Fall Meeting, Cuba’s Amb. to the UN, Yuri Gala López explains how State Sponsors of Terrorism designation intensifies the U.S. blockade. Photo: Bill Hackwell
The United States has declared war against the Cuban people for more than 60 years. Terrorist designations, sanctions and military threats create great suffering in that nation. BAR contributing editor Ajamu Baraka presented these remarks at a recent International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism on Cuba . (more…)