March 1, 2022
In El Salvador, prosecutors have charged former president Alfredo Cristiani and several ex-military officers for the massacre of six Jesuit priests carried out in 1989 by a US-trained death squad. The priests’ housekeeper and her daughter were also killed. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 1, 2022
students at the University of Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
I’m from the generation that was born in the 1990s. Those were the most difficult times that Cuba experienced since the revolutionary triumph of 1959, led by Fidel. Then, the young people helped pull the island out of a “Special Period” and an unprecedented economic crisis. (more…)
By Noam Chomsky on February 27, 2022
Noam Chomsky, photo: Bill Hackwell
Against decades of prevarication, there is a dramatic illustration of the torture of Cuba over sixty years, including John F. Kennedy’s terrorist war against Cuba, which nearly resulted in nuclear war in 1962 and the crushing blockade, strongly opposed by virtually everyone, including the vast majority of Americans. (more…)
By Carolina Vásquez Araya on February 27, 2022
Ryszard Kapuściński, photo: Marek Billewicz/East News
Nothing is as disturbing as the fact of ignoring everything. “To learn about reality by immersing oneself in it” was the motto of Ryszard Kapuscinski, the great Polish reporter whose time on this planet left deep traces in journalism and in the way of understanding the world. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on February 25, 2022
1999, Protest of US-NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, photo: Bill Hackwell
The first article of the United Nations Charter states verbatim that the purpose of that organization is “To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace.” (more…)
Declaration of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba on February 26, 2022
photo: Yaimi Ravelo
The American determination to continue the progressive expansion of NATO towards the borders of the Russian Federation has led to a scenario, with implications of unpredictable scope, that could be avoided. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on February 26, 2022
“Whoever reads bourgeois newspapers becomes blind and deaf”
There are three main senses in which practically no foreign affairs reporting by Western news media and NGOs is ever about the country ostensibly the subject of their reports. First, almost invariably the reporting is so selective and biased as to be in effect a fictional account of some notional place barely recognizable as the country in question. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on February 23, 2022
The European right and ultra-right are, in the old continent, the spearhead of the global anti-Cuba strategy of the US State Department and the Cuban-American Mafia based in the state of Florida. They seek to extend the blockade against Cuba to Europe. (more…)