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Historic Day: Colombia and ELN Guerrillas Sign Ceasefire Agreement in Havana

By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on June 9, 2023

Cuba President Dias Canel applauds Colombian President Petro and ELN leader Antonio Garcia

Today will be remembered as a historic day for Colombia, Cuba, and all of Latin America. After decades of continuous violence and internal conflict, the government of President Gustavo Petro and the National Liberation Army (ELN) agreed to a ceasefire during the closing of the third cycle of peace talks that had been taking place in Havana, Cuba, since early May. (more…)

Is Washington Seeking to Fabricate a casus belli against Cuba?

By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 9, 2023

img: TLK

The fake media machinery, obeying the dictates of the U.S. government, has started a new dangerous and infamous campaign against Cuba. (more…)

Cuba Sponsors Terror? A Trick of the Hand from the Real Terrorists

By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 6, 2023

Kim Phuc, “the napalm girl”, bears on her skin the mark of the Yankee genocide in Vietnam/ Sudestada

The use of terror and indiscriminate violence against civilians by military forces is not a novel resource; unfortunately, examples abound in the world. (more…)

El Salvador: Bukele’s Phony War on Corruption

June 5, 2023

photo: Marvin Recinos/ AFP.

Last June 1, Nayib Bukele forgot to render accounts in the space provided for the President of the Republic to render accounts to the Legislative branch and the nation. Instead, he came to the Blue Room to order his deputies to approve a plan to reduce municipalities and seats (more…)

Haiti: The Loneliness of Death

By Gabriela Cultelli on  June 7, 2023

“But I also know of a silence

a silence of twenty-five thousand black corpses

of twenty-five thousand crossbeams of ebony wood”.

-Jacques Roumain (more…)

Shame on the Saint-Sulpice Square

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on June 8, 2023

Nancy Morjon

The ghost of Joseph McCarthy wanders through Paris. It hovers over the chestnut trees of the Saint-Sulpice square, the Delacroix paintings kept in the church of the same name and the literary salons where the French Enlightenment was born. (more…)

Nicaragua: Money Under the Cassock

By Fabrizio Casari on June 8, 2023

It is difficult to believe that the $500,000 found in sacks in a Church property as part of a money laundering operation was intended for the purchase of candles for the faithful.

This Nicaraguan story that can be read in European or Latin American newspapers speaks of sacks full of money found in several dioceses. It is, however, partial information, which tends to present the detail in order to hide the background, which is much more serious and disturbing. (more…)

US Activists are Campaigning to Remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List

by Ju-Hyun Park June 7, 2023

Foto: Abel Padrón Padilla

To most countries, particularly fellow nations in the Global South, Cuba is a sovereign nation recognized for its leadership in healthcare, diplomacy, and human development. The US government, however, has a different, and quite unique, view: Officially, Cuba is categorized as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism.” (more…)

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