By Alvaro Verzi Rangel on October 10, 2023
photo: Wisam Hashlamoun – Anadolu Agency
The unexpected offensive launched last Saturday by the Palestinian group Hamas on various points of Israel’s territory, as well as the devastating military response by Tel Aviv and the rapid escalation of the conflict, in which the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah got involved hours later by attacking Israeli positions near the Lebanese border, adds an explosive ingredient to the already unstable world scenario. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 10, 2023
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
Every October 10th is a reason for national pride. On that day in 1868, 155 years ago, Cubans began the struggle for the independence of the island, then known as the “most precious jewel of the Spanish crown,” which lived under a humiliating submission amid an unstoppable process of love for the homeland. (more…)
October 7, 2023
US Southern Command General Laura Richardson leading a meeting with Guyana’s Defense Chief of Staff Brigadier Omar Khan.
Caracas has warned about US interference in Guyana and how the US Southern Command uses Guyana to orchestrate attacks against Venezuela. In an interview with Sputnik, analyst Martín Pulgar accused Washington of the “economic and political exploitation” of the Essequibo territory against the interests of Venezuela. (more…)
October 9, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, praised on Monday the anti-imperialist struggle carried out by Commander Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, who was executed on October 9, 1967 by the Bolivian army. “It is 56 years since the assassination of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, universal symbol of a cause that gathers the resistance and rebellion of the peoples, for the yearning to live in a united and sovereign Latin America,” he said through his X account. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on October 8, 2023 from Buenos Aires
photo: AFP
The events that are shaking Israel and Palestine today, with a tragic toll of civilian casualties, cause pain and compassion and, unfortunately, are not surprising. The attacks launched by Hamas from Gaza are the response to the terrorist policy of conquest and territorial dispossession that the Israeli regime, with the complicity of the United States and its unworthy European vassals, (more…)
From Havana on October 7, 2023
photo: efe
The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity of Peoples expresses its solidarity with the Palestinian people for the liberation of all the territories occupied by Israel for more than seventy years. (more…)
October 4, 2023
AMLO
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the United States’ sanctions and blockade policy against Cuba and Venezuela as the cause of increased regional migration. During his daily press conference on Monday, October 2, López Obrador directly linked US imperialist foreign policy in Latin America to the 10,000 daily arrivals of migrants at the US-Mexico border. (more…)
Sun Sentinel Op-Ed by Manuel Gomez on October 4, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The issue of our Cuba policy has been quiet recently, but it remains a critical component of our overall hemispheric relationships, and it will undoubtedly erupt again in the upcoming senatorial races. In Florida, it will make noise as always, thanks to the extreme-right of my own Cuban American community, (more…)