By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 22, 2022
The Intercept has provided evidence this Tuesday of the long-standing and incestuous relationship between the social network Twitter and the Pentagon. Not only has the platform helped “amplify certain messages” in countries targeted as enemies by the United States government, but also executives of the blue bird network have granted the US Department of Defense special privileges for covert Internet campaigns for at least five years. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 22, 2022, from Havana
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the FEU conference. photo: Abel Padron Padilla
This Tuesday, the capital hosted one of the most important youth events of the year, the closing of the 10th Congress of the Federation of University Students (FEU), the organization founded by leftist leader Julio Antonio Mella 100 years ago this December. (more…)
By Adalberto Santana on December 21, 2022
image: Multipolarista
It is evident that there is a marked deterioration in the relations of the Peruvian de facto government with the governments and peoples of Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Chile, Argentina and several of the Latin American and Caribbean region that have condemned the coup d’état of December 7, 2022, against the democratically elected president, Pedro Castillo Terrones. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on December 20, 2022
photo: diario libre
The political situation in Peru appears to be spinning out of control with no end in sight as violent repression on an angry population, who feel their democracy has been pulled out from under them, escalates. (more…)
December 19, 2022
Sen. Rick Scott talks to the press outside the White House, escorted by Sen. Marco Rubio and Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis. Photo: Phil Ammann
This past Friday, December 16, the US Senate unanimously approved the Law to Prohibit Operations and Leasing with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime of Venezuela (BOLIVAR Act), presented by the ultra-conservative Floridian senator, Rick Scott. The discussion of the interventionist act in the lower house of the US Congress is still pending. (more…)
By Liz Conde Sánchez on December 18, 2022
photo: Leandro Pérez
More than a year after the start of the massive anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaign in our country, Cuban vaccines continue to demonstrate their safety, effectiveness, and capacity to control the pandemic, even when confronting the new, highly contagious variants that have appeared in the world. (more…)
By David Brooks on December 19, 2022
photo: Garry Knight
There are an unprecedented number of pilgrims in the world – refugees, migrants, exiles – who have been forced to say goodbye to their homes, their families, their loved ones, and their worlds, to seek lodging, many in countries that share responsibility in provoking the exodus through economic policies, wars, their contribution to climate change and more. (more…)
By Carlos Fernández de Cossío on December 14, 2022
Speech by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Dr. Carlos Fernández de Cossío, during the twentieth edition of Conversations Cuba in the Foreign Policy of the United States of America, which is being held at the Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI).
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