“ALBA-TCP REJECTS EXCLUSIONS AND THE DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT IN THE SO-CALLED SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS IN LOS ANGELES”
The Heads of State and Government and the Heads of Delegations of the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), gathered in Havana, Cuba, on May 27, 2022, at its 21st Summit: (more…)
By Angel Guerra on May 26, 2022
Bogota rally for the Petro-Márquez slate
The probable victory of the progressive candidate Gustavo Petro in the Colombian presidential elections, taking place this Sunday, arouses great hopes there, in our region and in other corners of the planet. Polls show him winning, although not quite with half and the plus one of the valid votes needed to declare him the winner in the first round. (more…)
By Raúl Romero on May 23, 2022
It was March 1982 and the 24th year of the Revolution in Cuba was underway. By then, the island already had 2,000 health workers -more than half of them doctors- collaborating in 26 countries. The feat was incredible if we remember that after the triumph of the revolution in 1959 there were barely 3,000 doctors left in the largest of the Antilles. (more…)
By Marco Fernandes on May 24, 2022
photo: Marcos Espero
The world wants the conflict in Ukraine to end. However, NATO countries want to prolong it, increasing arms supplies to Ukraine and declaring that they seek to “weaken Russia”. The United States had already earmarked $13.6 billion to arm Ukraine. Biden has just requested $33 billion more. By way of comparison, ending world hunger by 2030 would require investing $45 billion per year. (more…)
By Yosley Carrero on May 20, 2022
Deisy Francis, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuban journalist Ibis Frade has been waiting for more than two years for a U.S. entry visa to be granted to her by the U.S. embassy in Havana. The 33-year-old, who had been working as a United Nations correspondent for Cuba’s Prensa Latina news agency since November 2017, came to the Caribbean nation for a month-long vacation in December 2019. Yet she has been unable to return for work at the UN headquarters in New York as she has not received any response concerning her visa application. (more…)
By Task Force on the Americas on May 24, 2022
Teri Mattson, photo: Bill Hackwell
While enroute to observe the presidential elections in Colombia, Teri Mattson was denied entry by Colombian authorities and had her passport seized. After arriving at 6:55 am on May 22, she was forced to spend the day and the night at the Bogotá Airport before being deported the following morning and flown out of the country. (more…)
By Orlando Oramas León on May 24, 2022
The XXI Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will take place this week on Friday in Havana according to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its web page. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 24, 2022 from Havana
Puentes de Amor
Of all, Cuba’s health sector is the area hardest hit by the blockade that the United States insists on maintaining against the island. For two years, the country has not been able to start the liver transplant program for children, due to the lack of a key component that Washington refused to sell to the country. But miracles do happen, and every day friends around the world prove to us that we are not alone. (more…)