By Raúl Antonio Capote on September 7, 2023 from Havana
photo: Anadolu Agency
The “news” that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world. (more…)
By Geraldina Colloti on September 6, 2023
September 11, 1973, Allende’s body is taken from the Presidential Palace
For the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile against the then president, Salvador Allende, analysis and publications are flourishing. Among them, the journalistic investigation by Francisco Marín Castro (sociologist, writer and director of the newspaper El Ciudadano) and Luis Ravanal Zepeda (forensic doctor), Allende, autopsia de un crimen, recently published in Chile by ediciones Ceibo. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 5, 2023 from Havana
photo: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
Cuba has dawned beautifully these past two days the weather was good and more than one million children of all ages have returned to the classroom. With the first light of day, they can be seen walking down the avenues on their way to school, many hand in hand with their parents or grandparents, and in a feast of white, red, yellow, and blue, all colors of their uniforms. (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on September 5, 2023
Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat
According to State Department sources, there is an operation underway against the Cuban Revolution executed by Orlando Gutierrez Boronat, an ultra-right-winger linked to the U.S. intelligence services and who has just recently traveled to Ukraine. The objective here is to complicate the G77+China summit to be held in Havana to be held in Havana on September 15-16, and to sabotage the presence of President Díaz-Canel in New York for the 78th United Nations Assembly starting September 19. (more…)
By Tanalís Padilla on September 5, 2023
Cuban and Angolan soldiers. courtesy: Gerardo Hernandez
Last month, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa. In the latter country he participated in the summit of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in the capacity that Cuba holds as president of the grouping of G-77 nations and China. The trip was significant both for the historical solidarity between Cuba and Africa and for the possibilities of strengthening relations between the countries of the global south. (more…)
Article and photos by Yaimi Ravelo on September 4, 2023 from Havana
Workers of the Copacabana Hotel on behalf of the Cuban people paid tribute today to Fabio Di Celmo, a young Italian who was a victim of a terrorist attack perpetrated from the United States against Cuba, in this tourist center 26 years ago. (more…)
By Peter Bolton on September 1, 2023
On August 20, Ecuadorians went to the polls to elect a new president just over two years since the previous presidential elections of 2021. Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution party topped the poll with 33%. But since no candidate achieved the necessary threshold to win in the first round, the election will now be decided via a run-off election in October. She will face political newcomer Daniel Noboa of the center-right National Democratic Action Party, who surprised political observers by placing second in a crowded field with 24% of votes counted. (more…)
By Arthur Gonzalez on September 2, 2023
The war that the United States is waging against Cuba is broad and covers politics, economy, culture, sports, health, education and everything they can do to hinder the development of the island, with the purpose of preventing the satisfaction of the people through their media campaigns projecting socialism as a failed system. (more…)