By Ana Hurtado on July 28, 2023 from Havana
photos: Bill Hackwell
The poet said he could write the saddest verses at night. I cannot say the same. Tonight I can write lines full of hope.
Last weekend marked a before and after in the struggle against the blockade of Cuba and the atrocities to which the United States subjects this people. (more…)
By Miguel Barnet on June 28, 2023
photos: Bill Hackwell
May the sails of this ship in which we all travel continue to push this country with winds of the future and wings of innovation. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on June 26, 2023
photo: Radio Habana Cuba
This past week, the UN Decolonization Committee held a hearing on what has been called the Puerto Rico case, on Puerto Rico’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence. (more…)
By Marisol Ramirez Palacios on June 26, 2023
Fernando Gonzalez Llort
The president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) Fernando González Llort, sent a message of thanks to the participants in the marches and demonstrations against the blockade and for the removal of Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, which took place this weekend in more than 30 cities in the United States and other nations. (more…)
By Marcelo Zero on July 27, 2023
Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia
On June 21st, a delegation from the European Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations visited the Brazilian Congressional Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense. (more…)
By Marcos Roitman Rosenmann on June 26, 2023
photo: Daniel Kubirski
They entered our house without knocking. There was no time to reflect. Without knowing why and how they were suddenly not strangers. Their names have accompanied us for a whole week in the corporate media. We knew immediately who they were. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on June 25, 2023 in Washington DC
photos: Bill Hackwell
Culminating a week of activism in Washington DC in support of the Cuban people, 500 people gathered here today in the plaza that holds the statue of the Argentinian liberator General José de San Martín, that ironically is located next to the US State Department where offices work overtime to come up with ways and methods to punish Cuba for insisting on its sovereignty. (more…)
By William LeoGrande on June 23, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the repertoire of foreign policy combatants in Washington’s corridors of power, there is a time-tested ploy: Conservatives in the military or intelligence bureaucracy leak damaging information to force the (usually Democratic) president into a more confrontational approach with a foreign adversary, derailing any effort to reduce tensions. (more…)