By Alejandra Garcia on February 20, 2024
Stella Assange calling for her husband’s freedom outside the High Court in London. photo: EPA
Australian journalist Julian Assange is living a decisive week in the United Kingdom as legal efforts are being exhausted to avoid his extradition to the United States, where he could face life imprisonment. The health of the Wikileaks founder, responsible for publishing war crimes perpetuated by Washington in Iraq and Afghanistan, has deteriorated to the extreme. (more…)
By Atilio Borón on Feb 19, 2024
‘true to their ideas’ , photo: Bill Hackwell
I have just arrived in Cuba, and I feel, once again, the same emotion that entered me the first time I visited it on the occasion of the International Seminar on the External Debt of Latin America and the Caribbean that Fidel convened in the first days of August 1985. (more…)
By Carlos Cruz Mosquera on February 19, 2024
photo: Leon Hernandez
It was expected that Colombia’s elites, who had enjoyed a monopoly over the state for two hundred consecutive years up until twenty months ago, would attempt to obstruct the left-wing President Gustavo Petro’s administration. (more…)
February 18, 2024
Lula in Addis Ababa
The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has denounces the Israeli genocide in Gaza and compares it to Adolf Hitler’s campaign during World War II.
The Brazilian president, in a meeting held this Sunday with journalists in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, where he is attending as a guest at a summit of the African Union (AU), said that “what is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a war, it is a genocide. (more…)
By Cindy Forster on February 17, 2024
Evo
On Monday, January 22nd, the poor in Bolivia set up road blockades. That day marks the fifteenth anniversary of a great step in human dignity called the Plurinational State of Bolivia. (more…)
February 16, 2024 from Havana
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced today that Israel, with the complicity of the United States, is responsible for the extermination of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on February 16, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
On February 7 of this year, official delegations from Cuba and the United States met in Washington DC, to address issues related to the bilateral agenda, as foreseen in the current Memorandum of Understanding on Law Enforcement and Compliance. The term in English is Law Enforcement since in that language the two meanings are contained in the same word. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 15, 2024 from Havana
Today, the 32nd Havana International Book Fair, the island’s biggest festival and the most attended event in Cuba, opened its doors, attracting the gaze of literature lovers from the country and the world. From February 15 to 25, 2024, this Wonder City will welcome domestic and international readers, authors, publishers, librarians, and celebrities who seek to experience the unique identity of this fair, which has no comparison with events of this kind in other latitudes. (more…)