By Bill Hackwell on July 10, 2023 from Miami
Medical aid for Cuba arrives in Miami. photos: Bill Hackwell
I was part of a team of Cuban solidarity activists who just delivered several tons of medical aid here that was purchased and collected by IFCO Pastors for Peace. The duffel bags with needed pharmaceuticals will be taken to the island with their delegation that is going for the July 26 commemoration (more…)
By Pablo Sepúlveda Allende on July 6, 2023
Salvador Allende with Fidel Castro
We are making an energetic call to both the Board and the workers of the Salvador Allende Museum to retract the grotesque provocation and repair the insolent insult to the image, memory and legacy of Salvador Allende that they are committing (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on July 9, 2023
Corina Machado
Suppose Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, had become jaded with Joe Biden’s irresponsible bluster (calling Xi Jinping a dictator, for example, after Blinken’s trip to “improve” relations with China) and had asked for help from a foreign power, let’s say for example Russia and China, to send a military expedition to the United States or to apply sanctions to this country with the purpose of achieving a “regime change”, i.e. the de facto removal of Biden. What would have happened to her? (more…)
By Frei Betto on July 8, 2023
photos: Bill Hackwell
I spent part of June in Havana, where I advise the Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Plan (Plan San). At this point the effects of a set of factors that has hit hard the lives of the population are more evident: the genocidal blockade imposed by the U.S. more than 60 years ago; the pandemic; the climate crisis; and the war between Russia and Ukraine, suppliers of inputs, fertilizers and tourists to the Caribbean island. (more…)
By Caitlan Johnson on July 4, 2023
CNN reports that President Biden has nominated criminal neocon Elliott Abrams for a position on the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which according to the US State Department is responsible for “appraising activities intended to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics” (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 6, 2023 from Havana
Cuba is currently hosting a 4 day high-level meeting of Ministers and experts of Environment of the member countries of the Group of 77+China. Nearly 1,400 researchers, academics, and students from over 23 countries are gathering in Havana to exchange experiences and sustainable practices. (more…)
By Mark Ginsburg on July 3, 2023
Over the weekend of June 22-25, the National Network on Cuba, of which the Bay Area Cuba Solidarity Network is a member, organized a series of activities in Washington, DC to protest US policies against Cuba. While the overall US Government’s polices restricting trade with and travel to Cuba (i.e., the embargo or blockade) was the general focus of the protest, particular attention was given to Cuba being placed on the State Department’s list of “state sponsors of terrorism.” (more…)
By Alan MacLeod on July 5, 2023
Fort Benning, the infamous Georgia U.S. military base, is once again in the news, changing its name to Fort Moore, thereby ditching its Confederate name. Yet none of the media covering the rebranding – not The New York Times, the Associated Press, CNN, ABC, CBS News, USA Today nor The Hill – mentioned the most controversial aspect of the institution. (more…)