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Puerto Rico is a New Country: Hope Lives and the Fight Goes On

By Claridad Editorial, November 7, 2024

Rally of Alianza supporters

If the results of the recent elections show anything, it is how the Puerto Rican people have been shaping, transforming and realigning their political conceptions, and becoming aware of their own power, to retake and rescue our country from the clutches of those who want to hand it over and destroy it. (more…)

Address by Delcy Rodríguez at the World Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum

November 8, 2024

Address by Compañera Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President of Venezuela, at the World Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum, November 5th 2024

Delcy Rodriguez

Long live the Free Peoples of the World!

Long live this Great Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum, convened in Caracas, Venezuela, where, on behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, of the Venezuelan people,  we have welcomed all the Parliamentary Delegations that have gathered in this capital city to raise their voice against Fascism. (more…)

Aimless Hurricanes

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 7, 2024

Hurricane Rafael

The word everyone mentions now in Cuba is “hurricane”. Eleven have swept through the Caribbean in the current hurricane season and two made landfall in Cuba with catastrophic effects. At the end of October, Hurricane Oscar caused eight deaths, more than 12,000 homes affected, hundreds of thousands of people without electricity and roads destroyed by a trail of floods, rains and landslides never seen before in an area of historic droughts in the eastern part of the island. (more…)

Venezuela Sends Aid to Cuba in Response to Hurricane Rafael

November 7, 2024 –  On Wednesday night, Venezuelan President Maduro expressed his solidarity with the Cuban people as Rafael, a Category 3 hurricane, made landfall with winds reaching up to 175 kilometers per hour. (more…)

Cuba Goes Immediately into Recovery after Hurricane Rafael Leaves the Island

November 7, 2024

News coming out of Cuba is spotty this morning as the second hurricane in a week has pounded the island, once again knocking out the compromised national electric grid of the blockaded country.

Ed Newman from Radio Havana Cuba has reported that Hurricane Rafael, which followed a trajectory that passed between Pinar del Rio and Artemisa in the western part of the country, left the island last night at 8pm leaving behind significant damage but at this time there are no reports of any deaths. (more…)

Maduro: ‘Whoever Wins US Election Will Need To Dialogue with a Revolutionary Government In Venezuela’

By Jose Luis Granados Ceja on November 5, 2024

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during his weekly television program

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned that whatever the outcome of Tuesday’s US presidential election, Washington will have to directly negotiate with a “revolutionary government” in Caracas. (more…)

The Blockade on Cuba is a Failed Policy but still has Bipartisan Support, says Dr. José R. Cabañas

By Zoe Alexandra on November 4, 2024

photo: Bill Hackwell

As the people of the United States head to the polls, people across the world are left to wonder how a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris victory will impact their countries, given the global hegemon’s central role in geopolitics. This is especially true in the socialist Republic of Cuba, which for over 65 years, has faced a comprehensive economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the US government and maintained continuously by different Democratic and Republican administrations. (more…)

In the Home Stretch of an Electoral Spectacle

By Raul Antonio Capote on November 4, 2024 from Havana

Regardless of the electoral outcome, Cuba will remain a thorn in the side of those who really rule in the United States. (more…)

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