By Alejandra Garcia on June 4, 2023
Last night the Cuban duo Buena Fe ended their tour of Spain, marked by love and the artists’ willingness to consistently ” offer their hearts” despite the fascist hatred and the cultural war they were targeted with. Against all odds, they offered their last concert in Madrid, where they received a standing ovation for several minutes to a full-house at the Marcelino Camacho Auditorium. (more…)
By William Serafino on June 4, 2023
Nicolás Maduro returned to Brazil after 8 years. Photo: Nicolás Maduro Twitter
In general terms, it can be said that the recent summit of South American presidents in Brasilia, convened by President Lula Da Silva, was a practical reflection of the political-electoral shift towards the progressive camp that recently undergone in the region. Although this change of geopolitical orbit has yet to guarantee its horizon of possibility in the medium term, it has already produced a first image in the Brazilian capital that signals a change in the times. (more…)
June 3, 2023
Guillermo Lasso
A journalistic investigation has revealed that two companies signed a contract in the U.S. to work on improving the image of Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso, in that North American country and in the United Kingdom when the president was facing an impeachment trial in the National Assembly. (more…)
By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet on June 3, 2023
Silvio, photo: Bill Hackwell
I missed it. I missed the ceremony of the awarding of the Honoris Causa of the University of Havana to Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. I don’t think there is a higher award in Cuban academia. That is why I equate it with a Nobel, the Nobel that Cuba could give to the man who equally deserves that one from the Swedish academy. (more…)
By Graciela Ramírez Cruz and Yaimi Ravelo on June 1, 2023 in Havana
Nancy Morejon, Berkeley California, 1994, photo: Bill Hackwell
In recent years the multidimensional war being waged against Cuba has focused on manipulating behavior of the social being, the media and attacking its culture at every opportunity.
In the past couple of weeks we have witnessed the cultural-ideological conflict move its target in the direction of artists and intellectuals who openly support the construction of a better country within the principles inherited by the Cuban Revolution. First the cowardly attacks against the Cuban duo Buena Fe in Spain and now against beloved and world renowned Cuban poet; Nancy Morejon (more…)
May 31, 2023
On June 25, Guatemalans will elect the successor of right wing President Giammettei, who is leaving with an 11% approval rating
Guatemala’s highest court, on May 26, blocked Carlos Pineda of the conservative Prosperidad Ciudadana party from running in the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for June 25. The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal filed by Pineda against the electoral authorities’ decision to disqualify him from the presidential race, accusing him of violating the electoral law. (more…)
phase 3 of testing a covid vaccine. photo: Yandry KW/shutterstock
Resumen-English is running this op ed piece appearing in today’s Washington Post. It is startling to find such truth in a mainstream site considering the Post could never be accused of saying anything objectively positive about Cuba.
Even further the article exposes the criminal nature of the Trump and Biden administrations during the pandemic where the vaccine pharmaceuticals’ obscene profits were paramount to saving lives here and around the world. No amount of imperialist rhetoric can hide Cuba’s humanitarian approach of sending front line doctors to countries to fight covid while creating 5 effective vaccines of their own as the US blockade busily tried to prevent access to syringes required to administer them. -editor (more…)
By Ramón Pedregal on May 30, 2023
Buena Fe
I love this country as I love myself.
The fascist’s slime covers the fascists from top to bottom. But there is not a single light that does not shine on Cuba, (more…)