By Teresa Melo on August 8, 2022
I will not repeat the news. The journalists and media are there, reporting minute by minute… I don’t think anyone slept, even those of us who are not in Matanzas. The videos of the explosion of the second tank, testimonies of firefighters, photos, bitter crying, fear, fear, fire spread, nearby electrical networks and transformers destroyed, steam, smoke, intense heat… And that red sky… (more…)
By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet on August 7, 2022 from Havana
Men of fire. Photo: Ricardo López Hevia
Getting older has its advantages. Facts are looked at with the old eyes that have seen so much that they have seen almost everything and have weighed or valued with an accumulation of memories and experiences enough to scare away superstitions and save hope in the worst moments. (more…)
By Rafael Montejo Véliz on August 9, 2022
more socialism, photo: Bill Hackwell
There are people, few, a who are already defeated, and it is true that the tragedy caused by the accident at the supertanker base is great and the scenes are Dantesque. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on August 9, 2022 from Cardenas
photo: Ricardo Lopez Hevia – Granma
Today, after several days, I checked what the mainstream media has reported on the accident at Matanzas supertanker base. I was not surprised at all by what I found. I say this because many of us are used to reading articles driven by sensationalism and not by any credible principles of journalism when reporting on Cuba. (more…)
By Graciela Ramirez and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on August 9, 2010 from Matanzas
image: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
It is shocking to take pictures, even from a distance, of the industrial zone of Matanzas. Black smoke and flames consume the fuel of the 3rd tank that collapsed last night. The images we have taken hardly give a true account of what we witnessed. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on August 7, 2022.
“It is said that no one really knows a nation until he has been in one of its prisons.” Nelson Mandela’s sentence opens a petition addressed to Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, president and vice-president of Colombia, who officially takes office today. It is signed by the National Penitentiary Movement, accompanied by hundreds of organizations and personalities. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 7, 2022 from Havana
Photo: Raul Navarro, Periodico Giron de Matanzas
The eyes of the world are upon Cuba after an enormous fire caused by a lightning strike on a crude oil storage tank in the Cuban city of Matanzas killed one firefighter and injuring more than 120 people. At least 16 people are missing while firefighters and specialized personnel are trying to contain the blaze. (more…)
By Mercedes López San Miguel on August 7, 2022
Gustavo Petro, photo: Europa Press
The unprecedented progressive turn that Colombia is experiencing today is due, on the one hand, to the long road traveled to converge in the Historical Pact and, on the other hand, to the Peace Agreement signed between the guerrillas of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and the State, in 2016. From then on, the leftist parties, besieged for decades, ceased to be stigmatized as actors of the armed conflict. (more…)