By Atilio A. Boron on October 7, 2023
photo: Jacob Kupferman
A few days before the end of its term in office, the Trump Administration once again included Cuba in the list of countries sponsoring international terrorism together with Iran, North Korea and Syria. The decision was communicated by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 12, 2021 on the lying grounds that “Cuba repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism” (more…)
By Yurina Piñeiro Jiménez on October 6, 2023 from Havana
family member of a victim of Barbados, photo: Ismael Francisco
Today is the 47th anniversary of the CIA orchestrated bombing of a Cuban airliner over Barbados killing 73 people. To this day nobody has paid for the crime and the perpetrators, who openly bragged about their role, have all died peacefully in their homes in Miami. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 5, 2023 from Havana
photo: Ricardo López Hevia
A new tragedy has shaken the whole country as if we had room for one more to endure. A building in the emblematic Old Havana, a few blocks away from the National Capitol, has left a toll of two dead, two rescuers, who died while trying to save lives. The first collapse of the façade of the three-story building left several people buried in the rubble. (more…)
By Hugo Alconada October 5, 2023.
the Argentinean people never forget the disappeared, photo: Bill Hackwell
Thirty years after the military coup, new declassified documents show that the military estimated that it had killed or made disappear some 22,000 people between 1975 and mid-1978, five years before the return of democracy. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 5, 2023
Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
“As China arrives with a splash in Honduras, the US wrings its hands”- Washington Post, October 2, 2023 (more…)
La Jornada editorial on October 3, 2023
Kenyan soldiers prepare for Haiti. photo: Brian Inganga, picture alliance
The UN Security Council approved Washington’s initiative to send a multinational military force of Kenyan majority to Haiti, whose declared objective will be to control the violence unleashed by gangs and reestablish minimum levels of security in the island nation. It is estimated that around 200 criminal groups operate in Port-au-Prince alone, (more…)
By Mg. José A. Amesty Rivera on October 2, 2023.
CIA agent and US diplomat Debra Hevia
On September 14, the U.S. Embassy announced the arrival of the new Chargé d’Affaires to Bolivia, career diplomat Debra Hevia, with extensive experience in Latin America and specifically in Bolivia, where she has already served two diplomatic missions. Her most recent assignment was as deputy chief of mission in Ecuador and before that as political advisor in Romania. (more…)
By Alberto Acosta on October 3. 2023
For practical purposes, in terms of the search for development, the countries bordering the Amazon have treated that region as their periphery, Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves, a great teacher and tireless companion in the struggle, often reminded us. The Amazon is a sort of enormous territory of sacrifice. It is where resources are obtained to finance economies. (more…)