By Alejandra Garcia on September 6, 2022, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is immersed in preparations for its most important civic event in years: the Families Code referendum. On September 25, the island will decide on the approval of this document, which was reviewed and discussed by all communities and institutions in the country beginning back in early February. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on September 4, 2022
2007 Havana, The US protects the terrorist Posada Carriles. photo: Bill Hackwell
“He was in the wrong place, at the wrong time,” assassin Luis Posada Carriles would say with astonishing tranquility to a journalist some time after the criminal act. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on September 4, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Last week, US President Joe Biden extended for one more year the sanctions on Cuba, arguing the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917. This mechanism has been used for the last 60 years to back the countless sanctions that make up the US blockade against Cuba. (more…)
By Tatiana Coll on September 1, 2022
What characterizes us as underdeveloped countries are the queues, popular queues, queues for tortillas, transportation. But only in Cuba are there queues for books. This surprised me since the first time I went there in 1970. When I worked at Juventud Rebelde newspaper and a large bookstore was very close by, the newsroom would often hear the announcement, “the book has just arrived…” (more…)
By Luis Bruschtein on September 3, 2022 from Buenos Aires
you are responsible for the hatred you generate photo: Bernardino Avila
A country at risk: the underlying reasons for the assassination attempt against Cristina Kirchner
It is not metaphorical, it is literal: overnight, hundreds of thousands of people burst the Plaza de Mayo and its surroundings to repudiate the attempted assassination of Cristina Kirchner. (more…)
September 3, 2022
photo: Juan Ignacio Roncoroni/efe
The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity for the Peoples repudiates with all its strength the assassination attempt against the Vice President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 1, 2022
University of Havana students. photo: Roberto Suarez
The pandemic has had devastating effects on every aspect of people’s lives, but one of the worst ones was that it forced tens of billions of children and young people around the world out of schools. They were a population at moderate risk of having severe symptoms of COVID-19, but they still got sick. Many died despite medical efforts or infected the most vulnerable at home. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on September 1, 2022
photo: upereira, creative commons
Today is the last day to campaign for the Constitutional referendum to be held on Sunday in Chile. In this vote, Chileans will decide whether to approve the country’s new Constitution, closing over a decade of social struggles, whose final stage began with 2019 people’s massive protests in the subways and streets. (more…)