By Isaac Saney on January 1, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The people of Cuba enter 2023 celebrating the 64th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. How can the singular meaning, the seminal nature, the effervescent history of the Cuban Revolution be sufficiently encapsulated? (more…)
unofficial transcription of opening remarks by Yuri Gala Lopez, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations at the 2022 National Network on Cuba Fall Meeting in New York City.
Ambassador Yuri Gala Lopez speaking in the NNOC meeting in NYC photo: Bill Hackwell
Let me start by referring to the historic dynamics of this inclusion of Cuba in the US’s State Sponsor of Terrorism like list of. Obviously, this is not the first time Cuba has been on that list. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on January 1, 2023
Luis Camacho
2022 ended in Bolivia with a complex political scenario. On December 28, National Police forces arrested Santa Cruz Province governor Luis Fernando Camacho after an arrest warrant was issued against him almost two months ago, based on his direct involvement of the 2019 coup d’état. He is also at least partially responsible for the Sacaba and Senkata massacres, where law enforcement officers killed 20 Bolivians by gunshots. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 30, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. This imperial fiat arrogates to the US the unilateral authority to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states in the Western Hemisphere and to exclude any other power from meddling in what is viewed as Washington’s backyard. Two centuries later, the doctrine faces a fragile future. (more…)
By Carlos Fazio on December 31, 2022
photo: El Pais
Since last December 7, a military-parliamentary dictatorship has been consolidating in Peru, using as its “institutional” façade the former Vice-President Dina Boluarte, who betrayed the ousted President Pedro Castillo and became a hostage of the army, Fujimorism and the racist and classist Lima oligarchy at the service of the large international extractivist corporations. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on December 28, 2022
The dramatic crisis that Peru has been experiencing since last December 7, after the illegal removal of President Pedro Castillo, imposed by the Parliament under the control of the Peruvian ultra-right, which ordered his arrest the same day of the President’s message to the nation, sentenced a week later by the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court to 18 months in prison, which provoked a popular uprising in several regions, repressed by the police from the first moments and then by the army when the coup perpetrators imposed a state of emergency and other dictatorial measures. (more…)
By Héctor Bernardo on December 27, 2022
In Washington a strenuous effort is being carried out to prevent its “enemies” from being able to produce, export or supply themselves with inputs for energy generation; for this reason, all kinds of illegal and illegitimate actions are carried out, ranging from unilateral sanctions to terrorist attacks. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on December 28, 2022
José Ernesto Novaez, poet, writer, essayist and coordinator of the Cuban chapter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity (REDH-Cuba). We met him in Caracas, at the International Book Fair (Filven), where Cuba was present with a stand full of precious cultural proposals, and with a panel of authors who participated in numerous debates at the Fair. (more…)