By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on May 30, 2023
photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil
Yesterday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shook hands again after eight years since they last met. Maduro traveled to Brasilia after almost a decade; the last time was to attend the inauguration of former President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016). (more…)
By Calla Mairead Walsh on May 29, 2023
Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution.
While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US people are increasingly calling for an end to US terrorism and sanctions against Cuba. (more…)
Xiomara Castro
The right-wing wars in Latin America are waged, to a great extent in the minds of people, especially those who still think they are part of the privileged class, even though neoliberalism is gradually making them lose purchasing power. Psychological operations, whose spearheads are in the media and social networks have been relentless against the progressive government of President Xiomara Castro since the very day she took office. (more…)
May 29, 2023
Aleida Guevara, daughter of the eternal Argentinean-Cuban commander Ernesto Che Guevara, called on Monday in Lebanon for greater support for the cause of the Palestinian people. (more…)
May 27, 2023, Havana
photo: Omara Garcia Mederos- ACN
As part of the activities organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), a Caravan against the Blockade was held today and extended from the 13 de Marzo Park to the Torreón de La Chorrera, in this capital city. The caravan was a planned activity of WFDY which has been convened here for a week with the final session taking place tomorrow. (more…)
May 26, 2023
Sub-Secretary of Foreign Ministry Gloria de la Fuente with Vice Foreign Minister Ignacio Higueras of Peru. Photo: Foreign Ministry Chile
The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, on Wednesday, May 24, condemned the Chilean government’s decision to support Peru’s de facto government in demanding the transfer of the pro tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance. Morales pointed out that the decision was especially concerning because it had come at a time when the Peruvian Congress had approved the entry of US troops for training activities in the country. (more…)
By Michel E. Torres Corona on May 27, 2023
Jose Marti, Cuban National Library, photo: Bill Hackwell
Every national identity is built on the basis of values and anti-values, of antithetical binomials that in their dialectic contradiction forge a specific form of collective existence: revolution and reaction, freedom and oppression, independence and annexation, solidarity and selfishness. (more…)
By Ben Norton on May 25, 2023
Argentina is suffering from high rates of inflation, largely due to odious debt owed in US dollars to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Western vulture funds. (more…)