By Agustín Lage on May 3, 2022
Photo: Bill Hackwell
This May 1, 2022, the squares were once again filled with workers, celebrating THEIR day, in THEIR country and defending THEIR project for a socialist society.
It was an expression of consensus, collective, massive and free. As was also in 2019 the popular vote for the Constitution of the Republic (84.4%). No one forced anyone to attend the May Day events, just as no one forced anyone to vote on approving the Constitution. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor on May 2, 2022 from Havana
Photo: Bill Hackwell
The story of the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists, who served long and arbitrary sentences in the United States for defending their country against attacks being organized in Miami, would be incomplete without mentioning the diplomat and revolutionary Ricardo Alarcon, who died Sunday in Havana. (more…)
Havana, May 1st, 2022
Ricardo Alarcón, President of the Cuban National Assembly
Photo: Bill Hackwell
The International Committee for Peace, Justice, and Dignity deeply regrets the departure of the great Cuban revolutionary Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 1, 2022 from Havana
Havana’s Revolution Square looked beautiful this Sunday, as it had not been for three years. With the first morning light, thousands of Havanans, Cubans from all over our geography, and friends from other latitudes paraded as one in front of the giant bust of José Martí. All carried Cuban flags of all sizes, signs that read “Cuba Lives and Works,” “Yes, we can,” or showed images of Fidel, Raúl, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel. (more…)
By Enrique Milanés León on April 30, 2022
Gerardo Hernandez, Bill Hackwell and Graciela Ramirez inaugurate tribute to Alicia Jrapko Photo: Yaimi Ravelo
“The Felix Elmusa award shone brighter on her chest and she honored them more than the medal honored her,” said Tubal Paez, former president of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) at yesterday’s tribute to the Argentine sister’s life at the Casa de la Prensa. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on April 27, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
The World Meteorology Organization just released a report about the state of the climate in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1998 to 2020. The results are just alarming and expose how Latin America is one of the most affected regions due to climate change. Even when it is a worthy document, it does not say anything we have not come to realize already. (more…)
April 26, 2022
Thirty photographs of the dear friend of Cuba, Alicia Jrapko, will be exhibited this Friday, April 29, at 10:00 a.m., at the headquarters of the Union of Journalists of Cuba in Havana, as a tribute to the former coordinator in the United States of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity and Co-Chair of the National Network of Solidarity with Cuba in that country. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on April 26, 2022 from Havana
photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Cuba is a very particular country on the continent. The existence of a socialist revolution makes it the focal point of the harhest criticism from mainstream media. Last weekend, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel was interviewed by the Latin America political analyst Atilio Boron. (more…)