By Marina Menéndez Quintero on June 25, 2024 from Havana
Julian Assange, heading home. photo: Wikileaks
“Julian is free,” words written excitedly yesterday on the social network X, of Stella, the lawyer and wife of Julian Assange, the Australian journalist founder of Wikileaks imprisoned in the high security prison of Belmarsh, in Great Britain. He has been there for the last five years of the total of 14 he has been imprisoned in a legal limbo; ever since November 2010, when the Stockholm Criminal Court issued an international arrest warrant against him. (more…)
By Stansfield Smith on Jun 18, 2024
Chinese police officers near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua
My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. We were also to go in 2020, but the covid lockdown canceled it. (more…)
By Raul Capote Fernandez on June 24, 2024
photo: Getty images
They wear hoods to hide their faces, bulletproof vests, helmets with built-in cameras to transmit live terrorist actions, visors, gas masks, homemade explosives, backpacks and bags carrying Molotov cocktails, stone throwers, sledgehammers, iron batons, mortars, homemade bazookas, brass shields. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 23, 2024 from Havana
The International Court of Justice (IJC)
On Friday, the Cuban government announced that it will join Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Maldives, Egypt, Ireland, Belgium, Turkey, Mexico, Chile and Spain as countries formally joining the lawsuit filed by South Africa before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for the ongoing genocide in Gaza. (more…)
By Andreína Chávez Alava on June 22, 2024 from Caracas
Edmundo González abstained from signing the agreement. (EFE)
The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) proposed an agreement for presidential candidates to acknowledge and respect the July 28 electoral results while ensuring a peaceful process. (more…)
Por Cheryl LaBash el 22 de Junio 2024
Cuba’s Heberprot P. photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Un reciente anuncio de Discovery Therapeutics Caribe, LLC en Cleveland alivia un temor importante que viene con un diagnóstico de diabetes, el miedo a la amputación. El grupo de defensa Diabetes.org revela que el temor está justificado. “Cada 3 minutos y 30 segundos en los Estados Unidos, una extremidad es amputada debido a la diabetes. Las amputaciones van en aumento en Estados Unidos: 154.000 personas con diabetes sufren amputaciones cada año”. (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on June 22, 2024
Cuba’s Heberoot P. photo: Yaima Ravelo
A recent announcement by Discovery Therapeutics Caribe in Cleveland eases a major fear coming with a diabetes diagnosis: the fear of amputation. The advocacy group Diabetes.org reveals the fear is justified. “Every 3 minutes and 30 seconds in the United States, a limb is amputated due to diabetes. Amputations are on the rise in the United States — 154,000 people with diabetes undergo amputation each year.” (more…)
By Mauri Balanta Jaramillo and Janvieve Williams Comrie on June 21, 2024
Francia Marquez’s rise to Colombia’s vice presidency has put a target on her back, but she also brings with her hope for a real change in Colombian politics. As in the U.S., Black political power is met with fierce and sometimes violent opposition elsewhere in this region. photo: Bill Hackwell
On June 16, during Father’s Day celebrations, Sigifredo Márquez, father of Colombia’s Vice President Francia Márquez Mina, was attacked, also affecting a 6-year-old minor. This incident underscores the precarious position and constant threats that endanger the lives of Black leaders and communities in Latin America, (more…)