By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 7, 2024
photo: Yamil Lage, AFP
Cuba has experienced the deepest energy crisis in living memory. On Friday, October 18, the whole country went dark and the outages continued, although more than 60 percent of Cubans had been enduring for several weeks blackouts of more than 14 hours and interruptions in essential services, from drinking water supply to communication and public health. (more…)
November 9, 2024
Russia has announced a $60 million diesel shipment to Cuba during bilateral meeting in Havana.The Russian assistance, authorized directly by President Vladimir Putin, represents an international effort to help stabilize Cuba’s energy sector. (more…)
By Maciek Wisniewski on November 9, 2024
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty
Noting how in recent months Kamala Harris and the Democrats gambled on turning the U.S. election solely into a token debate about “democracy” and “Trump’s character,” rather than focusing on policy and solutions to the issues that voters pointed to in polls as their biggest concerns – the state of the economy, inflation, or the genocide in Gaza (more…)
By Atilio Baron on November 9, 2024
Milei, photo: AFP
There are many reasons why the Argentine president will enter history through the service door, if he is lucky. Contrary to his delusions of grandeur, to his self-proclaimed mission of being the “redeemer” of a West won by the seven-headed hydra of collectivism, Javier Milei will be remembered instead as the ruler whose administration provided a new, more resounding and definitive ratification of the veracity contained in Karl Marx’s theory of capitalist economy. (more…)
By Claridad Editorial, November 7, 2024
Rally of Alianza supporters
If the results of the recent elections show anything, it is how the Puerto Rican people have been shaping, transforming and realigning their political conceptions, and becoming aware of their own power, to retake and rescue our country from the clutches of those who want to hand it over and destroy it. (more…)
November 8, 2024
Address by Compañera Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President of Venezuela, at the World Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum, November 5th 2024
Delcy Rodriguez
Long live the Free Peoples of the World!
Long live this Great Anti-Fascist Parliamentary Forum, convened in Caracas, Venezuela, where, on behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, of the Venezuelan people, we have welcomed all the Parliamentary Delegations that have gathered in this capital city to raise their voice against Fascism. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 7, 2024
Hurricane Rafael
The word everyone mentions now in Cuba is “hurricane”. Eleven have swept through the Caribbean in the current hurricane season and two made landfall in Cuba with catastrophic effects. At the end of October, Hurricane Oscar caused eight deaths, more than 12,000 homes affected, hundreds of thousands of people without electricity and roads destroyed by a trail of floods, rains and landslides never seen before in an area of historic droughts in the eastern part of the island. (more…)
November 7, 2024 – On Wednesday night, Venezuelan President Maduro expressed his solidarity with the Cuban people as Rafael, a Category 3 hurricane, made landfall with winds reaching up to 175 kilometers per hour. (more…)