By Alejandra Garcia on May 11, 2023
photo: Granma
Every year around this time Cuba remembers Celia Sanchez Manduley the most native flower of the Cuban Revolution, as Celia Sanchez Manduley was lovingly known. This May 9, the first woman who joined the Revolutionary Army in the late 1950s with a rifle in her arms would have turned 103 years old.
Those who knew her say Celia’s most outstanding characteristic was her kindness. Her humble clothing and the decision to drive around in a small jeep without an escort made it difficult to envision her as a heroine of the Republic of Cuba and one of the key figures of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Raúl Capote Fernández on May 10, 2023
photo: Guillermo Flores
In any crisis situation in the U.S. economy, the first to be affected are minorities. Unemployment, cuts in assistance programs, debts, take their toll on the poorest communities first and foremost. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on May 10, 2023 from Havana
An Andalusian patio in Seville. photos courtesy of Ana Hurtado
Like Antonio Machado’s, my childhood is also memories of a courtyard in Seville. And it is marked by orange trees and summers with a radiant sun between two Andalusian provinces: Seville and Jaen. And vice versa. Almost 300 kilometers between the two. (more…)
By Alina Ross Martin on May 9, 2023
The president of Cuba’s Casa de las Americas, Abel Prieto, criticized the misrepresentations launched by the West about the triumph of the Soviet Union over the German Nazi Army in World War II (1939-1945).
Hollywood and the whole machinery of cultural domination have made many people in the world believe that the United States was the victor over fascism in World War II, the Cuban writer wrote in his Twitter account. (more…)
By Álvaro García Linera on May 7 2023
International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the service of neoliberalism.
There was a time when the International Monetary Fund’s “recommendations” on how to reorganize an economy were read, defended and executed as if they were a divine mandate. Those were the 90s of the last century, when every study of the course of the world economy or agreement reached with this or that country, (more…)
By Patrick Martin on May 5, 2023
The annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association is an occasion for the media elite and top politicians in Washington to schmooze and declare their mutual solidarity. This is usually couched in the language of defense of the First Amendment, although that constitutional provision has been systematically trampled on by administration after administration in the interests of American imperialism. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on May 6, 2023
There is much confusion about the selling off of Citgo; this article clarifies how this new form of lawfare is an escalation of the empire’s economic war against revolutionary Venezuela . – editorial (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on May 5, 2023
Juan Guaido interrupted at the Wilson Center
Juan Guaidó continues to advocate punishing the Venezuelan people with US coercive economic measures. Recently shipped to Washington DC, the former “interim president” of Venezuela pleaded, “You can’t use a kind or soft approach,” such as easing the suffering, because it would “normalize dictatorship.” (more…)