October 21, 2024 from Havana
photo: office of the Presidency
On Sunday Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel pointed directly at the blockade policy of the United States government as the fundamental cause of the national collapse of the National Electric Power System (SEN) over the past few days. (more…)
By Mark Friedman on October 18, 2024 from Sacramento CA.
Solidarity among workers, Bill Camp speaking at a CTC meeting in Cuba 2018.
They came from the labor unions, Cuba solidarity committees, human rights, Palestinian and Arab-American struggles, and the Democratic Party to celebrate the life of Bill Camp. Camp was the Executive Secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council from 1999 to 2014, and an icon of the labor movement here. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on October 16, 2024.
The summit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) opened in Rome, in the midst of the conflict that is spreading to the Middle East and which forces to confront the relationship between capitalist exploitation, imperialist wars and food security. One year after the genocide perpetrated by the Zionist regime, which shows no signs of abating, the figures from Palestine published by FAO indicate the inconsistency of “humanitarian” intervention without political action against colonial oppression. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 19, 2024
Photo: Cristian L. Ricardo – Public Domain
“The majority of Cubans support Castro…every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”
Lester D. Mallory, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, 1960. (more…)
October 19, 2024
Due to the effects of the blockade, 13 of the 15 thermal units are out of the maintenance cycle. Photo: Omara García Mederos, Granma
Today, Cuba once again experienced a total power outage after the recovery process of the National Electric System (SEN), initiated the day before following a blackout caused by a failure at a thermoelectric plant, failed. The Caribbean nation is unable to purchase or modernize its electrical machinery due to the draconian, unilateral blockade of the US. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 17, 2024
Severe blackouts hit Ecuador, photo: Bloomberg
The massive power cuts in Ecuador continue to cause havoc and threaten to become more serious each time. The country subsists between several parallel crises, but the electricity breakdown is the one that concentrates the discomfort of the citizens and, also, of the government of President Daniel Noboa, a U.S born right-wing neo liberal corporate businessman who is giving away the country’s resources while the people sit in the dark. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on October 17, 2024
Diosdado Cabello said that Venezuelan authorities have seized more than 500 weapons to date. photo: Latest News Venezuela
The Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, offered more details this Thursday about terrorist plans against the country, organized by the U.S. Government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), with the participation of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) of Spain. (more…)
October 16, 2024
Nearly a hundred faculties of public universities are paralyzed and taken over by students and non-teaching staff in protest against Javier Milei’s veto of the university funding law.
The national general secretary of the Student Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (CeFyL-UBA), Luca Bonfante, has confirmed that in over one hundred public universities students are carrying out some ongoing protest measure. (more…)