By Luis Hernández Navarro on April 24, 2023
Ignacio Ramonet, photo: Bill Hackwell
Ignacio Ramonet is one of the most relevant public intellectuals in Latin America. His essays on communication are studied in journalism schools in the continent, his books of conversations with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez are read almost all over the world and his reflections on politics and the media are an obligatory reference in the progressive and alter-globalization fields. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on April 24, 2023
Yariel Rodriguez with the Chunchi Dragons, photo: Cubainformacion
Cuban baseball player Yariel Rodriguez played in Japan’s professional league, with a millionaire contract, of which he received most of it and a small percentage was destined to the Cuban Baseball Federation, for grassroots sports on the island. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 23, 2023 from Havana
drug epidemics in US cities like San Francisco kills hundreds each year. photo Eric Risberg
Since the first years of the Revolution (1959), Cuba ceased to be the drug paradise created by Washington through the servile Cuban governments of the Republic years. The dream of making Cuba the Vegas of the Caribbean crumbled with the arrival of the Barbudos, who installed a zero-tolerance policy against drugs that prevails to this day. (more…)
By Laura V. Mor on April 21, 2023 from Havana
photo: Guerrillero
After two years of implementation of the magnetic cards preloaded in Freely Convertible Currency (MLC) intended for foreign tourism in Cuba, CADECA -Casas de Cambio executives confirmed on Friday morning that they have managed to count on a country-wide support, to facilitate their use throughout the country. (more…)
By Ariadna Eljuri on April 19, 2023
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, expressed on Monday his support for the International Conference on the Political Process in Venezuela, promoted by his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro. (more…)
By José Ernesto Novaes on April 20, 2023
photo: El Diario/Spain
Vijay Prashad (Calcutta, 1967) is above all a militant. His intellectual work is an attempt to understand and respond to some of the great challenges of our time. Of Indian origin, this Marxist historian has deployed an intense vital activity that has taken him to many countries, always in defense of the cause of humanity. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on April 19, 2023 from Havana
I go as often as I can, but now, I have returned to make the thorough tour that I made the first time I went a little over a year ago. (more…)
April 19, 2023.
Tens of thousands of piqueteros and piqueteras marched carrying torches this Wednesday from the Pueyrredón Bridge to Plaza de Mayo to repudiate the adjustment of the International Monetary Fund (more…)