June 16, 2023
Have you seen any Chinese here? “No. Well… On 22nd Street there’s a Chinese family. But they’ve lived here since I was a child.” photo:Luis de Jesús Reyes
Yesterday a BreakThrough News team went to the municipality of Bejucal, just outside Havana where the US government says a Chinese spy base is located. (more…)
June 17, 2023
Jorge Rodríguez, President of the Venezuela National Assembly
The Venezuelan National Assembly (NA) has issued a statement in response to the recent declarations made by former US President Donald Trump, where he publicly confesses that during his term in office he was about to make Venezuela collapse. These statements sought to question the fact that Joe Biden’s government is currently buying oil from the country, arguing that it could have been stolen. (more…)
By Ajamu Baraka on June 14, 2023
At the National Network On Cuba, 2022 Fall Meeting, Cuba’s Amb. to the UN, Yuri Gala López explains how State Sponsors of Terrorism designation intensifies the U.S. blockade. Photo: Bill Hackwell
The United States has declared war against the Cuban people for more than 60 years. Terrorist designations, sanctions and military threats create great suffering in that nation. BAR contributing editor Ajamu Baraka presented these remarks at a recent International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism on Cuba . (more…)
By Melinda Butterfield on June 14, 2023
Melinda Butterfield at CENESEX, Photo: Serena Sojic-Borne
Returning from 12 days in Cuba in mid-May, I spent an uncomfortably long six-hour layover at the Miami airport, waiting for my connecting flight to New York. (more…)
June 13, 2023
Humanized monoclonal antibody nimotuzumab
The Chinese National Drug Administration approved on Monday the commercialization and use of nimotuzumab, a Cuban humanized monoclonal antibody for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 13, 2023
Texas governor’s million dollar Floating Border Wall
It is hard to imagine it could get any worse but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border, due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden’s administration, which have forced hundreds of migrants to wait on the Mexican side. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 13, 2023 from Havana
Heavy rains are leaving a desolate panorama in eastern Cuba. Entire communities are buried under thick mud and water due to the torrential and prolonged rains that have been lashing the country for the past weeks. So far, six people have lost their lives in the floods, and more than 39,000 are sheltered in the homes of neighbors, relatives, or state facilities, according to official reports from the government. (more…)
By Seth Donnelly on June 10, 2023
image: Emory Douglass
“As the people of Haiti continually attest, we women in the Grandans are clear that since the coup d’etat of February 29, 2004, this has been the plan to wipe out the Haitian people and our country. We call on all women’s organizations, popular organizations, students and all to stand against this system that generates the high cost of living, misery, corruption and rape that are destroying our lives…”
– From a press release on March 17th, 2023, by Haitian women’s and popular organizations in the Grandans Department of Haiti. (more…)