August 13, 2013
Acteal, photo: Bill Hackwell
Twenty five years after the Acteal Massacre where 45 women and children were murdered, violence continues in the highlands of Chiapas against the indigenous communities. 500 years after the theft of the mineral rich lands of these communities began, the struggle continues with escalating violence. (more…)
By Hernán Ouviña on August 12, 2022
Hours before the official inauguration of the government of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez after the triumph achieved last June 19, social organizations, peasant movements, Afro communities and indigenous peoples held, during the morning of August 6, a Popular and Spiritual Possession in the Tercer Milenio Park, located in the center of the capital of the country. “We have come together in this important scenario with the objective of fertilizing the ground for the construction and constitution of the Popular Power, which allows the practical exercise of a political, economic and cultural sovereignty within the reach of all”, expressed the joint organization of the event. (more…)
By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet on August 13, 2022 from Havana
graphic by Ares
Fidel used to laugh a lot at the plans of his enemies “for the post-Castro era”. One day he said that while they were talking about that time, he was working for that time. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 11, 2022 from Havana
Fidel, photo: Roberto Chile
These days Cuba is recovering from an unprecedented fire, which has kept Matanzas, the whole island, and especially rescuers, firefighters, and authorities on full alert since the night of August 5. The continuous explosions in one of the main oil storage facilities in the country left a trail of thick black smoke that covered the Havana sky for five days. It also left so far two deaths, 14 people missing, and over a hundred people injured. (more…)
By José Luis Granados Ceja on August 9, 2022
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the inauguration of Gustavo Petro as president of Colombia, with leaders pledging to rebuild the long but fraught relationship between the two Caribbean countries. (more…)
By Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin on August 10, 2022
photo: Irene Perez, Cubadebate
By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 that has just been extinguished has been seen around the world. (more…)
August 10, 2022
Former right-wing President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, has landed a job at the Washington-based Wilson Center as a “Distinguished Fellow” and “Global Advisor” for issues including defense of democracy and climate change, despite his atrocious record on human rights and environmental destruction. (more…)
By José Alejandro Rodríguez on August 8, 2022
photo: Ricardo Lopez Heria
The beautiful Matanzas burns of pain before an excessive lightning, whim of the exalted Mother Nature that unleashed in persistent flames the oil that urges us. And Cuba, so promiscuous in sharing sorrows, shudders moved by the tongues of fire, the flesh and the cut dreams of so many children once again. (more…)