May 23, 2023, Caracas
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro blamed the Venezuelan opposition for being behind an embezzlement of the State in coordination with the U.S. Government, resources that are used to finance their primary elections scheduled for next October. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023, a new brigade of Cuban doctors arrive in Mexico.
The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news. What can governments do to counteract a future health crisis and can we overcome the dominate greed of the developed countries when it comes to public health? (more…)
By Ramón Pedregal Casanova on May 23, 2023
The U.S. elite has been weaving since its state created the trap with which to drag Cuba into its account. But Cuba is not a fish even if it is in the water, it is a territory free of imperialism, like Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, … gateways to what is already becoming the vision of the free future of the Southern Continent. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on May 22, 2023
Cubans carry the images of the 73 victims of the Posada planned bombing of a Cubana airliner. photo: Bill Hackwell
On May 23, 2018, in the early hours of the morning, Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles passed away at Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, Florida, United States. He was a CIA agent, confessed assassin and dedicated counterrevolutionary considered one of the masters of terrorism against his own country of origin; Cuba. (more…)
By Andreína Chávez Alava on May 15, 2023
Venezuelan crossing the Rio Grande, photo: Jordan Vonderhaar
US foreign policy remains a war on two fronts: punish countries with sanctions and then punish their migrants too.
Last year, I wrote a long essay telling my family’s migration story amidst our country’s social collapse in the immediate aftermath of US sanctions. Since then, some of my relatives have returned home and left again as economic hardships continue to weigh us down. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on May 22, 2023
Iroel Sanchez
I write these lines motivated by the pain caused to so many of us by the untimely physical demise of the Cuban intellectual, journalist, computer warrior and revolutionary Iroel Sánchez Espinosa. The following is part of a conversation I had with him during my most recent visit to Cuba, in February of this year. (more…)
By Abdul Rahman on May 21, 2023
People’s Summit for Democracy in LA calls for the end to all US sanctions and blockades. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Economic sanctions, often illegally imposed, have a lasting negative impact on the populations in targeted countries and almost never achieve their stated goals, claims a new study published by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). (more…)
May 19, 2023
The Peruvian Congress has approved the entry of U.S. troops to “train” with military and police of the South American country. With 70 votes in favor, 33 against and four abstentions, the plenary of the Parliament approved the measure, which was repudiated by the left-wing opposition members. (more…)