July 14, 2023
The Berlin Academy of Arts has announced that it will award the 2023 Konrad Wolf* Prize to Julian Assange, despite the fact that he is unlikely to attend the ceremony scheduled for October 20, due to his detention in the maximum security prison of Belmarsh, in London (UK). (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on July 12, 2023
photo: Anton Medevedev
In the past six years, US foreign policy towards Venezuela can be encapsulated in one word: sanctions. There have been other aspects to it, like the propping up of a self-proclaimed “interim government.” But economic coercive measures have been front and center, both in terms of their widespread use and their impact on the Venezuelan people. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 13, 2023 in Havana
It is no coincidence that just days before Cuba marked two years since the July 11 riots, a nuclear-powered US submarine crossed Cuban waters and docked at the illegal base at Guantanamo Bay. From July 5-8, it remained afloat in that Cuban territory usurped and illegally occupied by Washington 121 years ago as a clear threat to peace in the region. (more…)
July 13, 2023
Guatemalan social organizations urge the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to ignore the judicial resolution against Semilla.
Several social organizations in Guatemala denounced an attempted electoral coup, after the decision of the Public Ministry to suspend the political party Semilla, of candidate Bernardo Arévalo who is the elected candidate to face former first lady Sandra Torres, in the second round of elections. (more…)
By Zoe Alexandra on July 13, 2023
The VI Summit of the Heads of State of CELAC in Mexico in September 2021. The regional integration mechanism has grown in importance in recent years.
On July 17 and 18, heads of state from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) will meet in Brussels, Belgium for the III CELAC-EU Heads of State Summit. (more…)
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba on July 11, 2023
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly rejects the arrival of a nuclear-powered submarine in the Guantanamo Bay on July 5, 2023, that stayed until July 8 at the US military base located there, (more…)
July 10, 2023
Statement by Casa de las Americas
photo: Bill Hackwell
A young man of migrant descent is killed by the police. Thousands of people, outraged, take to the streets. Police repression is unleashed. Buildings and cars are set on fire, and dozens are injured. The number of arrests grows by the hour. France burns. (more…)
By Gabriel Brito of July 7, 2023
Photo: National Health Council
Brazil’s 17th National Health Conference brought a significant portion of the social mobilizations that led to President Lula’s electoral victory to the federal capital Brasilia. It was a rare opportunity to see all, or almost all, the social struggles from different corners of the country in one place. (more…)