By Alejandra Garcia on October 17, 2023
Cuba is going through complex times, like the rest of the world. The pandemic and its aftermath, which still impacts the island and most of the countries on the planet; inflation, the shortage and increase of food prices in the international market are some of the challenges faced by humanity in recent times, a reality that Cuba is no stranger to. (more…)
By Emir Olivares and Néstor Jiménez on October 17, 2023
“So that there is no longer any doubt”, Mexico will continue to support Cuba in everything it needs, including oil, and for this it does not have to “ask permission” from any foreign government, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made clear from the National Palace. (more…)
By Gustavo Petro of October 16, 2023
The barbarism of consumption based on the death of others leads us to an unprecedented rise of fascism, and thus to the death of democracy and freedom. It is barbarism, or global 1933, as I call it. 1933 was the year when Hitler rose to power. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on October 16, 2023, from Havana
“Life is a succession of lessons that one must live to understand.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in a world of hypocrisy, beautifully adorned and dosed by the mass media, in which the powerful seek at all costs to impose a unique look and interpretation of events. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor with photos by Bill Hackwell on October 14, 2023
They came to Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, from all over the country on their own resources. Some paid for over priced plane tickets to this region of New England, some took buses, but regardless it was worth it because “Cuba is calling us,” as a young activist from Virginia told me. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 13, 2023
Peru is in the news again. Hundreds of people have returned to the streets against the regime of Dina Boluarte, who is entrenched in the government, does not give in to the demands for early elections, and does not do justice for the deaths left by police brutality during the protests unleashed at the beginning of this year. The panorama is bleak. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 13, 2023 from Havana
No medicine, no water, no electricity, no fuel. Hunger and desperation as a political weapon. “We are fighting animals and we act accordingly,” said Israel’s Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, when announcing the total encirclement against the Gaza Strip. (more…)
October 10. 2023
Given the escalation of violence in recent days, the death of so many Palestinian and Israeli civilians, caused by more than 70 years of occupation and massacre against the Palestinian territory and its people, and aggravated by the neo-fascist coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity calls for the need and urgency of restoring dialogue. (more…)