By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 30, 2025
JFK
The danger of trusting the CIA, said Brazilian politician Leonel Brizola, is that as the years go by, the agency opens its files and “everything rotten comes to light”. The prediction that new skeletons will come out of the closet of US politics has been on the rise since Donald Trump decided to publish the still classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on January 29, 2025 from Havana
Graciela Ramirez at the 6th International conference for the Balance of the World. photos: Yaimi Ravelo
Today at the first day of sessions of the 6th International Conference for the Balance of the World entitled “With all and for the good of all,” the solidarity movements with Cuba denounced the unpunished crimes of imperialism against the peoples of Cuba and Palestine. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris on January 25, 2025
Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela
The New York Times, the so-called US “newspaper of record,” carried an opinion piece by one of its columnists promoting “military intervention” to promote “democracy” by overturning the democratically elected government of Venezuela. (more…)
January 27, 2025
Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia
The racist discourse promoted by the new government of the United States against migrants in his country found a breaking point yesterday in the decision of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, not to allow the arrival of flights with expelled people because they were not being treated with the dignity that a human being deserves. (more…)
By Syara Salado Massip on January 28, 2025 from Havana
All photos: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
Every January 27, the traditional Torch March is held in Cuba to pay tribute to our National Hero José Martí. Thousands of young people and people in general gather on the steps of the University of Havana from where they set off, holding torches, walking along San Lázaro, Infanta and Espada streets, until they reach the Fragua Martiana, the place where Martí was subjected to forced labor during his political imprisonment. (more…)
We are running this dignified response to Trump from Colombian president Gustavo Petro after he refused to allow 2 US military planes loaded with Colombian nationals deported in shackles from landing in the Latin American country. Trump in his anti immigrant crusade responded by threatening Colombia with tariffs of 50% on all Colombian products coming into the US if there wasn’t compliance. As of last night a tentative agreement has been reached between the two countries and Petro has sent Colombian planes to return them in a humane way. The corporate media is saying that Petro backed down but if you read this you will see a defiance against this anti immigrant revival of the Monroe Doctrine. How much indignity are the countries of Latin America supposed to endure? –editor (more…)
January 26, 2025
Richard Grenell before being appointed acting director of national intelligence in 2020. photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka, AFP
The new US administration is still calibrating its foreign policy approach towards Venezuela. At least, that is the impression that has been settled upon this week. (more…)
By Delfin Xiqués on January 26, 2025
First departure of Cuban children to Miami, via Varadero, as part of Operation Peter Pan. Photo: Granma Archives
Operation Peter Pan was one of the most perverse, monstrous and inhuman actions of the psychological warfare against Cuba deployed by the CIA to smuggle out of the country, through lies and manipulation, more than 14,000 children between six and 12 years of age. (more…)