By Raúl Antonio Capote on August 28, 2023
Donald Trump, the great showman of U.S. politics, has managed to make public capital out of the various accusations that have been made against him.
Each outing, each presentation, has been prepared in great detail to exploit the feelings of the electorate, especially of his fanatical followers. (more…)
By Elias Ferrer Breda on August 24, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The remarkable thing about this article is not its clear detail about how Cuba has been able to come up with a successful model for sustainable development but its source. Forbes Magazine, has marketed itself as the “Capitalist Tool” while yearly listing the richest people in the world and it is not a friend of Cuba. The article takes a u turn in the last paragraph when it considers all the advancement and innovation the Cuban people have made under a developing socialist model, but attributes it as a beneficial byproduct of the brutal US economic war and then raises the question if they can be applied to capitalist projects in developing countries. – editorial (more…)
By Marcelo Colussi on August 27, 2023
Bernardo Arévalo and the Semilla Movement, photo: CLAE
Over the years the popular camp in Guatemala has definitely lost a lot and has been on the defensive. In accordance with what happened all over the world, the triumph of neoliberal plans and the fierce anti-communism left by the first Cold War (we are already living the second one), the advances and conquests of the common people have regressed in a phenomenal way. (more…)
By Yaima Puig Meneses and René Tamayo on August 27, 2023
Photo: Alejandro Azcuy Dominguez.
“Our house is your house,” Namibian President Hage Geingob assured today, in Spanish, to the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, at the start of official talks between the two delegations, this Sunday morning, at the State House headquarters. (more…)
August 25, 2023
solidarity with Haiti, no intervention, photo: Bill Hackwell
Haiti is witnessing a rise in violence once again as the country continues to oppose any foreign intervention, partially due to the mistrust in Ariel Henry. (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on August 15, 2023
Communal assembly at the Chávez -Bolívar Commune in Carache. (Voces Urgentes)
Ramón Grosfoguel is a Puertorican intellectual recognized for his work on the decolonization of knowledge and power. In part one of this interview, Grosfoguel talked about the continuity between the colonial and the neocolonial system in Venezuela. In part two, we discuss Venezuela’s options in terms of an economic model, and about the commune being the only real way for the revolution to survive. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on August 26, 2023
Fidel with Stella Calloni
In reality the Cultural Battle began with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959. There is nothing similar in history: an island in the Caribbean surrounded by dictatorships defeats a dictator imposed by the United States and achieves the surrender of the army and the police, subdued by the empire, while the economic power, the partners and mafias of that power fled to Miami. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 24, 2023
world leaders attending the BRICS Summit in South Africa. photo: Alejandro Azcuy
The BRICS group, an alliance of leading emerging economies formed by Brazil, Russia, India, and China in June 2009 with South Africa coming on board in 2010, concluded its first face-to-face meeting on Thursday after three years of impasse due to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. From August 22-24, Johannesburg, South Africa, was the scene of key discussions in an ever-changing geopolitical landscape. (more…)