By Alejandra Garcia on November 28, 2024 from Havana
photo: Gilberto Ante Herrera
On November 14, 1965, the first doctors trained by the Revolution graduated in the Sierra Maestra Mountain. The unique academic promotion was accompanied by Fidel, who left an indelible mark on the new health professionals. Hector Terry Molinet, one of them, told the details of that experience to local newspapers and Resumen Lationamericano. (more…)
By Frei Beto on November 27, 2024
Fidel Castro Ruz
November 25 marked eight years since Fidel’s passing. I could not say how many private conversations I had with him since I met him in 1980. After our first meeting, in Managua, I traveled numerous times to Cuba, and I think that, from 1985 onwards, in almost all of them I had the opportunity to meet him. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on November 26, 2024
photos: Frente Amplio
“We have nothing to expect but that which comes from ourselves.”
This past Sunday, there was so much news happening in the world including the war of the US and NATO allies against Russia, the Zionist attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, among others. In our region, the media marked the day by focusing on the second round of the presidential elections in Uruguay. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on November 25, 2024
Monday marked eight years since the physical departure of the eternal Fidel Castro. From the steps of the University of Havana, Cubans — especially young people — paid tribute to the Commander, as a sign that his legacy remains here, in each of the people present and in so many others throughout Cuba and the world. (more…)
By John Perry on November 24, 2024
Nicaragua a threat? with the GDP of a small US city?
In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”. Presumably he agreed that it does, because he renewed its status as a “national security threat” for a further year, repeating the designation that first began under the last Trump presidency. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on November 26, 2024
US President Joe Biden and Peruvian President Dina Boluarte meet at the APEC summit. photo: Presidencia del Perú
Between November 15 and 16, 2024, the government of Peru hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This 21-country gathering that first started in 1989 brings together the major countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with the major countries that ring the Pacific Ocean, including the United States and China. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on November 22, 2024.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro turns 62.
On November 23, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, celebrates one more year of his life, the sixty-second. A life dedicated, from a very young age, to the ideals of socialism, united to the multitude of young people, inspired by the October revolution and the subsequent ones. (more…)
November 23, 2024
The construction of three photovoltaic solar parks of Chinese technology, with a power of 21.87 megawatts (MW) each, is a priority in Ciego de Avila in view of the very high and continuous deficits of electricity generation that affect the economic and social life in the country. (more…)