By: Randy Alonso Falcón on February 25, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg’s boys were very active against Cuba in 2022. More than one Cuban page was censored by the Palo Alto team without plausible explanations. One of the most notorious closures, last October, was that of the space that the site Razones de Cuba had in that digital social network. The mission of this media since its inception has been to denounce the terrorist and subversive activity of the U.S. government against our country. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on February 24, 2023
photos: Bill Hackwell
On February 26, 1982, then President Ronald Reagan instructed his Secretary of State to include Cuba in the so-called list of countries sponsoring terrorism, in accordance with the provisions of legislation passed three years earlier, called the Export Administration Act (Section 6). (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on February 23, 2023 from Havana
the view of the people of Guantanamo, photo: Bill Hackwell
To a great many people of the world the word Guantanamo has become synonymous with torture since the US opened up their military prison center there in 2002. Over 780 people captured by US forces have suffered from massive human rights violations there carried out by the CIA since that time. (more…)
By Ariel Dorfman on February 22, 2023.
Pinochet- the genocidal one
Every dawn, during my daily walk to the foothills of the Andes, I pass by the Tobalaba Aerodrome, a facility that caters to a wide variety of private aircraft. For most residents of La Reina, the Santiago neighborhood where my wife and I have a home, this is an attractive and benign open space in a congested city, a guarantee that no skyscraper will blur the skyline. For me, in a year marking the 50th anniversary of the coup against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, that airport arouses less affable feelings. (more…)
By Daniel Kovalik on February 19, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the immediate aftermath of the recent devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Cuba dispatched medical teams to the affected areas to provide care to victims. Their departure was marked by a farewell ceremony, which featured a large photo of Fidel Castro. It was quite appropriate, (more…)
By David Brooks on February 22, 2023
meeting between residents and city council in East Palestine, Ohio, to answer questions about the derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying toxic substances.
There are explosions everywhere: toxic clouds, missiles, sabotage with explosives and news that should blow up, and balloons (yes, more balloons). (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 21, 2023
Photo: Nelson Almeida
This weekend, celebrations for Brazil’s traditional carnival have been overshadowed by the wake of pain and desolation left by unprecedented rains in Sao Paulo. Over 500 rescuers, law enforcement, military, and citizens woke up Tuesday morning searching among debris and floods for possible victims of the catastrophe, which so far has left 44 dead, including children. (more…)
February 18, 2023
Guillermo Lasso
Last Tuesday Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso threatened the journalist team of the digital media outlet La Posta, after it published a series of documents and audio recordings linking government officials and the president’s brother-in-law, Danilo Carrera, with alleged acts of corruption and drug trafficking. (more…)