October 2, 2023
Roberto Serra, photo: Bill Hackwell
On Sunday, at the General del Sur Cemetery in Caracas, young Venezuelans laid a floral offering commemorating the anniversary of the 2014 assassination of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Deputy Robert Serra. A large number of youth spoke about their experiences of meeting Serra. He was known for his humility and as a great leader within the ranks of the Bolivarian Revolution. (more…)
By Tanya Wadhwa on October 1, 2023
Hundreds of people participated in march to commemorate nine years since the disappearance of 43 students. photo: Roberto García Ortiz
On September 28, parents of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, who disappeared in 2014, lifted the sit-in protests that they had held for eight days in front of the Military Camp No. 1 in the capital Mexico City. (more…)
By David Brooks on October 2, 2023
Sally the sea lion escaping Central Park Zoo during flooding in NYC
The former president, coup plotter, rapist and Republican presidential front-runner is busy vying for the White House as he defends himself in at least four trials and a total of 91 criminal and civil charges in the coming months. At the same time, a Democratic senator who feels he is an international judge by condemning governments that repudiate Washington’s imperial model as “corrupt” and “undemocratic” is now accused – for the second time – of political corruption. (more…)
By Cindy Forster on October 2, 2023
In recent weeks, Mayan campesinos set up twenty roadblocks across Guatemala and Indigenous authorities declared themselves on permanent alert. They demand that president-elect Bernardo Arévalo be allowed to take office. Guatemala is Central America’s most populous nation and home to the largest proportion of Indigenous of any country in the hemisphere. It is also the linchpin in the U.S. State Department’s so-called “Northern Triangle” strategy that polices drugs and migration in the “triangle” of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Washington’s support of Arévalo is one measure of the decline of U.S. power in the hemisphere. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor on October 1, 2023
Oakland California, photo: Bill Hackwell
New displays of solidarity with Cuba took place in the United States this weekend as part of that growing movement of support that carries an elementary request: Let live a people whose only sin has been to build and defend a different model under the very noses of the empire. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 30, 2023
diplomat Felix Garcia Rodriguez, machine-gunned on 55th Street in Manhattan on September 11, 1980.
Cuba is included in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism drawn up every year by the U.S. government. The arguments are ridiculous because there is not a single evidence that the island is a threat to anyone in the world. (more…)
September 29, 2023
Angel Guerra
Intellectuals and personalities from Latin America and the world mourn the death of prominent Cuban journalist and political analyst Angel Guerra following the news of his death on Friday in Mexico.
Guerrita, as he was affectionately known by his colleagues and friends at the time of his death, lived in Mexico and wrote his brilliant articles in the newspaper La Jornada.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel said, “My condolences to family and friends of Ángel Guerra, prestigious journalist, active member of the Network of Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity and tireless defender of Cuba and the Revolution.” (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 25, 2023 from Havana
Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine indicted on federal bribery charges.
“In the marrow, in the marrow is the vice, in which life has no object on this earth for love.On this earth there is no other object than the amassing of fortune!”. –Jose Marti (more…)