By Bill Hackwell on May 1, 2023 from Havana
This morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel received at the Palace of the Revolution 300 friends of Cuba, coming from the United States to demand an end to the blockade. Brigades, groups and other delegations are in Cuba to take part in the May 1 activities celebrating the International Day of Workers and to show their solidarity with the Cuban people who have withstood the longest continuous blockade in modern history. (more…)
By Clau O’Brien Moscoso on April 29, 2023
“The US installed Dina (Boluarte) to get lithium and cocaine.”
The Peruvian coup regime remains entrenched in power more than four months after the parliamentary coup that ousted democratically elected President Pedro Castillo while the National Strike is now in Day 110. On April 10th, the de facto Minister of Energy and Mines Óscar Vera announced the coup government would grant permits to Macusani Yellowcake , subsidiary of Canadian mining company Plateau Energy Metals, which as of 2021 is a subsidiary of American Lithium in the Macusani town of the Puno region. (more…)
By Nuria Barbosa León on April 29, 2023 from Havana
Friends of Cuba with workers of the Habana Libre Hotel. Photo: Dunia Álvarez Palacios
Friends of Cuba from all the over the world are gathering in Havana to show their solidarity with the people of Cuba and in defense of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 28, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
What you see from the window of my apartment in Havana does not resemble the images that war conflicts usually leave behind. Here there are no missiles being fired, no camouflaged soldiers, no weapons. Nor do armored tanks pass by. The war does not manifest itself in body counts and car bombs, but in the shock of everyday life (more…)
April 24, 2023
So Command General Laura Richardson
Strong statement from Argentine human rights organizations, political and trade union leaders repudiating the visit of US Southern Command General Laura Richardson. (more…)
By Tanalís Padilla on April 26, 2023
graphic: Cuba en Resumen
On April 26, 1986, the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl plant produced a nuclear spill whose radiation contaminated 150 thousand square meters of what today are Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Considered the worst nuclear accident in history, it was in many ways a slow-motion mishap. (more…)
April 26, 2023
President Xiomara Castro, photo: Olivia Zúniga Cáceres
Honduran President Xiomara Castro, on April 21, warned of a conspiracy against her government by the same conservative sectors that staged a coup d’état against former President Manuel Zelaya in 2009. (more…)
By Alberto Acosta on April 26, 2023
photo: Christian Braga
“The jungle, for the indigenous peoples living in the Amazon, is life. The whole world of the kawsak sacha (living jungle) has energy and symbolizes the human spirit both for its strength and its greatness, inner thought where the soul and life are one with Pachamama and that is part of our formation from the very moment we are conceived.” –Patricia Gualinga, Kechwa indigenous leader of Sarayaku (more…)