By Graciela Ramírez Cruz and Yaimi Ravelo on June 1, 2023 in Havana
Nancy Morejon, Berkeley California, 1994, photo: Bill Hackwell
In recent years the multidimensional war being waged against Cuba has focused on manipulating behavior of the social being, the media and attacking its culture at every opportunity.
In the past couple of weeks we have witnessed the cultural-ideological conflict move its target in the direction of artists and intellectuals who openly support the construction of a better country within the principles inherited by the Cuban Revolution. First the cowardly attacks against the Cuban duo Buena Fe in Spain and now against beloved and world renowned Cuban poet; Nancy Morejon (more…)
May 31, 2023
On June 25, Guatemalans will elect the successor of right wing President Giammettei, who is leaving with an 11% approval rating
Guatemala’s highest court, on May 26, blocked Carlos Pineda of the conservative Prosperidad Ciudadana party from running in the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for June 25. The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal filed by Pineda against the electoral authorities’ decision to disqualify him from the presidential race, accusing him of violating the electoral law. (more…)
phase 3 of testing a covid vaccine. photo: Yandry KW/shutterstock
Resumen-English is running this op ed piece appearing in today’s Washington Post. It is startling to find such truth in a mainstream site considering the Post could never be accused of saying anything objectively positive about Cuba.
Even further the article exposes the criminal nature of the Trump and Biden administrations during the pandemic where the vaccine pharmaceuticals’ obscene profits were paramount to saving lives here and around the world. No amount of imperialist rhetoric can hide Cuba’s humanitarian approach of sending front line doctors to countries to fight covid while creating 5 effective vaccines of their own as the US blockade busily tried to prevent access to syringes required to administer them. -editor (more…)
By Ramón Pedregal on May 30, 2023
Buena Fe
I love this country as I love myself.
The fascist’s slime covers the fascists from top to bottom. But there is not a single light that does not shine on Cuba, (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on May 30, 2023
photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil
Yesterday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shook hands again after eight years since they last met. Maduro traveled to Brasilia after almost a decade; the last time was to attend the inauguration of former President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016). (more…)
By Calla Mairead Walsh on May 29, 2023
Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution.
While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US people are increasingly calling for an end to US terrorism and sanctions against Cuba. (more…)
Xiomara Castro
The right-wing wars in Latin America are waged, to a great extent in the minds of people, especially those who still think they are part of the privileged class, even though neoliberalism is gradually making them lose purchasing power. Psychological operations, whose spearheads are in the media and social networks have been relentless against the progressive government of President Xiomara Castro since the very day she took office. (more…)
May 29, 2023
Aleida Guevara, daughter of the eternal Argentinean-Cuban commander Ernesto Che Guevara, called on Monday in Lebanon for greater support for the cause of the Palestinian people. (more…)