October 8, 2024
photo: EFE
U.S. President Joe Biden proposed Monday a new regulation that will ban the circulation of two types of vehicles manufactured with technology linked to China and Russia: connected vehicles, which communicate with other cars or infrastructure, and autonomous vehicles, which circulate without a driver, something that in practice means the closure of the market to all new Chinese tourism. (more…)
October 9, 2024.
Mexican Head of State Claudia Sheinbaum has expressed her solidarity with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, regarding the recently initiated and unconstitutional investigation of the National Electoral Council for his 2022 presidential campaign. (more…)
By Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on October 10, 2024 from Havana
As it is every year in Cuba, in the month of October, the Day of Cuban Culture is taking place.
These celebrations commemorate the beginning of the struggles for independence and the creation of La Bayamesa, a war march that became the Cuban National Anthem (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 8, 2024 from Havana
Plaza of the Revolution, photo: Bill Hackwell
“Shoot, coward, you are going to kill a man,” were the last words Ernesto Che Guevara said to his executioner, Mario Teran, on that October 9, 1967, in La Higuera, Bolivia. Those words pronounced in the humble school of the village, with a thatched roof, tormented the Bolivian sergeant for the rest of his life, because of the courage of that man who looked serenely at death. (more…)
Statement of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity on October 7, 2024
Cease Fire Now!
The Resistance Will Win!
One year, 365 days of accelerated and intensified genocide against the Palestinian people.
One year of heroic Palestinian resistance to the massacre, bombings, forced displacement, kidnapping, torture, detentions, apartheid, extermination and unspeakable pain of slaughtered children, women and entire families. (more…)
By Tanya Núñez on October 4, 2024
FARC leader Ricardo Palmera, better known as Simón Trinidad, brought to Bogota, Colombia after his capture in Ecuador, January 2004. Photo: Miguel Menéndez/EPA/Corbis/file photo.
Many believe that Ricardo Palmera, better known by his nom de guerre, Simón Trinidad, can play a key role in achieving peace in Colombia, a country devastated by centuries of social, political, and armed conflict. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on October 4, 2024
The center of Buenos Aires was completely full with protesters calling on Javier Milei to approve the Financing Law. Photo: CONADU
On October 2, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Argentina to demand that Javier Milei’s neoliberal government cease its attempts to defund public university education. It was the largest protest to date against Milei’s harsh neoliberal measures, yet the libertarian head of state refused to budge. (more…)
October 5, 2024
Far-right Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado and former presidential candidate Edmundo González waving at supporters. Photo: X/@EdmundoGU.
María Corina Machado has not made any public appearances for almost 40 days. After ambivalent statements about her “clandestinity,” she has been accused of preparing to leave the country. She insists she is in Venezuela but has not given any proof of this. She affirms, as did Edmundo González when he was applying for asylum in Spain, that she will not leave the country. (more…)