By Yilena Héctor Rodríguez on September 28, 2025 from Havana
Gerardo Hernandez, national co ordinator of the CDR’s. Photos: Marcelino Vázquez Hernández/Cubadebate
It was Sixty-five years ago, that the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) were founded in a Cuba that was just embarking on the most radical transformation in its history.
Faced with constant aggression from the United States, then-Prime Minister Fidel Castro believed that the defense of the Revolution should come from the masses. The people had to organize themselves to face the myriad of provocations. (more…)
Bruno Rodriguez, photo: RT
Statement by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, during the general debate of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. New York, September 27, 2025 (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 26, 2025 from Havana
The vertigo and harshness of the events that overwhelm us leave, as a result, the dissolution of evil: it is erased by habit, it becomes trivial, a nonsense. What other explanation is there for Donald Trump’s announcement that the “cause” of autism is the consumption of acetaminophen during pregnancy, and the “evidence” lies in the fact that Cubans supposedly do not suffer from the disorder because there is no way to pay for the medicine on the island? (more…)
By Abel Prieto Jimenez, from Havana, Casa de las Américas, on September 25, 2025
Abel Prieto Jiménez, Views from the Web
At the Third World Meeting of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity that was held in Caracas, Bolivarian Venezuela, in December 2004. Commander Chávez welcomed more than 400 participants from 52 countries and encouraged them to go on the offensive to face “one of the greatest challenges in the world today.” (more…)
By Emir Sader on September 24, 2025 from Rio de Janeiro
Lula at the UN, photo: AFP
As is tradition at every opening of the UN General Assembly, the presidents of Brazil and the US are the first to take the floor. But rarely, as on this occasion, have the speeches of both leaders been so diametrically opposed. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on September 24, 2025
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens in the White House in Washington on September 22, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein / AP
This week, perhaps the most prominent news story about the ongoing reality show unfolding in the White House was related to the content of the US president’s speech to the high-level segment of the United Nations General Assembly, the breakdown of his teleprompter, and the escalator he was using to get to the plenary session. (more…)
US President Donald Trump of the 193 countries of the world on Tuesday that their nations are “going to hell” because of uncontrolled migration. Photo Xinhua
By Jim Cason and David Brooks, Washington DC and NYC on Sept. 23, 2025
US President Donald Trump declared at a meeting of all 193 countries of the world on Tuesday that their nations are “going to hell” because of uncontrolled immigration and the “hoax” of climate change, insisting that they can only be saved if they work with the United States. (more…)
Global Sumud Flotilla sails toward Gaza despite drone attacks, surveillance, and threats from the US and Israel. Photo: Anadolu Agency
By Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad on September 23, 2025
A Conversation with Marita Rodríguez, Member of the Global Sumud Flotilla
The Gaza Sumud Flotilla sails from Tunis toward the waters around Palestine. The word Sumud in Arabic means Resilience. It is the feeling at the heart of the hundreds of people from forty-four countries on the fifty boats that are in the Mediterranean Sea. One of these boats is carrying a group of women from around the world. On that boat is María ‘Marita’ Rodríguez, a Swedish and Chilean woman who lives in Stockholm. She spoke to us from her boat about her journey and why she was there in the first place. (more…)