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Illegitimate Debt and a Ticking Time Bomb in Argentina: US $14 Billion Due this Year

By Marcelo Di Bari on February 13, 2023

No to the IMF

There is a mountain of debt that at the end of December was valued at $ 23.2 trillion, of which more than 60% will mature during the current year has unleashed the strongest economic clash between the government and the opposition in recent times. The trigger was the communiqué issued by the Argenitine national board of Juntos por el Cambio, (JXC) that pointed out the “abusive use of instruments in pesos adjusted in dollars with rates impossible to pay”. (more…)

Cuba and Mexico Strengthen Ties of Friendship with the Visit of Díaz-Canel to Campeche

By Alejandra Garcia on February 12, 2023

photo: cuba presidencia

Cuba and Mexico continued to strengthen their ties of brotherhood  Saturday, as the president of the Caribbean island, Miguel Díaz-Canel, received from the hands of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration awarded to a foreign head of state. The act, which took place during the visit of the Cuban leader to the State of Campeche, represents a new seal to a close bilateral relationship that goes beyond the symbolic. (more…)

The State of the Union Address and other Demons

By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on February 11, 2023

“Bob I really need to talk to you about Cuba.”

As happens every year, the act known as the presidential State of the Union address has just taken place in the U.S. Capitol, an exercise that has been carried out publicly and uninterruptedly since 1913 and that aims to provide a kind of balance on the situation of the country and the development of the agenda of the president, who at that time is in power. George Washington initiated the practice in 1790, but Thomas Jefferson discontinued it (the public session) in 1801. (more…)

Terribly Normal People

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 11, 2023

Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin

The new banality of evil is tourism, capable of turning a Nazi concentration camp, where 200,000 people were interned between 1936 and 1945, into an object of consumption. In Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, more than 30,000 died from disease, starvation, medical experiments, torture or the gas chamber. (more…)

Cuban Medical Brigade Leaves for Turkey

By Víctor Villalba on February 11, 2023

photo: Víctor Villalba

The Minister of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba, José Ángel Portal Miranda, bade farewell last night at the Havana airport to the Medical Brigade made up of members of the International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics “Henry Reeve”. (more…)

Dying by Killing: US and its Manifest Destiny

By Marcos Roitman Rosenmann on February 8, 2023

The fear of disappearing as a hegemonic power awakens the survival instinct. The United States (US) has entered a dangerous drift, the end of which puts the future of humanity at risk. If a nuclear holocaust is on the horizon, it is no coincidence. The cultural reason of the West is facing its worst nightmare: being trapped in a war where it cannot see the way out. (more…)

“The Transformations have to be Profound” Part 2

An interview with Rogelio Polanco, Head of the Ideological Department of the Cuban Communist Party

By Katrien Demuynck on February 7, 2013

Cuban Youth, photo: Anabel Díaz, Granma

KD : The challenge with the youth is great. There is a group of young people who are emigrating, does that mean that they no longer see prospects in their own country and think they will be better off elsewhere? (more…)

“The Transformations have to be Profound” Part 1

An interview with Rogelio Polanco, Head of the Ideological Department of the Communist Party of Cuba

By Katrien Demuynck on February 6, 2023

70% of Cubans were born under the blockade

Cuba is currently going through an extremely difficult time. How does this island manage to hold its ground in spite of everything? What are the challenges it faces and how are they being addressed? We put these questions to Rogelio Polanco. (more…)

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