By Alejandra Garcia on October 30, 2023
protestors say no new mining contract. photo: Walter Hurtado/Bloomberg
Panama has woken up once again. For several days now, thousands of its citizens have taken to the streets against a nefarious mining contract that would not only put vast areas of the country in the hands of private companies, with headquarters in the North, but would also cause irreparable environmental damage. (more…)
By Mariela Castro on October 30, 2023
image: Al Mayadeen
In less than one month, the bombardments of the Israeli army on the defenseless population of Gaza have caused more than 8,000 deaths, more than 20,000 wounded — and most of them are girls, children, teenagers, women, some of them pregnant and elderly. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on October 30, 2023
It is becoming commonplace that every late October, shortly after commemorating the National Culture Day, Cuba is shaken by the controversy of the Halloween celebration. Not only because of the debate on the relevance or not of its celebration in these lands, but also because of events that occur on that date and call for social reflection. (more…)
By Graciela Ramirez on October 26, 2023 from Havana
Fayez Abed in Gaza hospital
I met the young Palestinian Fayez Abed in 2013 when he had just arrived in Cuba, he barely spoke Spanish. Tall, cheerful, big beautiful eyes with a smile always, like all his compatriots, committed to their beloved Palestine and just causes. (more…)
By Jessica Dos Santos on October 28, 2023
If a genie, or a demon, showed up and said “I’m granting you six months to improve your precarious life,” what would you do? That is more or less the dilemma the Venezuelan government faces today. (more…)
By Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of Cuba on October 28, 2023
photo: Palestinian journalist Hosam Salem
Sixty-three years ago, in a historic speech before the United Nations General Assembly, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, said and I quote: (more…)
October 28, 2023
October 26, Kent England
Around 150 protesters, including health care workers, teachers and academics from various British trade unions, on Thursday blocked the two entrances to the Instro Precision Ltd factory, a subsidiary of Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, located in Sandwich, in Kent, in the southeast of the United Kingdom. (more…)
Article and Photos by Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba on October 28, 2023 from Havana
“I sing to you, because it is not true that you are dead, Camilo.
I sing to you, because you are alive and not because you are dead.
Because you are alive in the soul of the people of your love,
in the laughter of the children and in the green of the palms”. (more…)