By Claudia Fonseca Sosa on November 15, 2022
Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez
Briefing the press on the course of the round of migration talks with the United States that took place today in Havana, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said that the Cuban delegation welcomed the announcement of the full resumption of immigrant visa services at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba as of January 4, 2023. (more…)
By José Ramòn Cabañas Rodríguez on November 15, 2022
A week after the mid-term elections in the United States dawns and we still do not know who will have the majority in the House of Representatives, nor the definitive data on the Senate, where, if there will be Democratic dominance, it will be minimal, and the data has fallen in drips and drabs during the last week. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 15, 2022 from Havana
photo: José M. Correa
Pinar del Rio doesn’t want to remember the early morning of September 27 or the days and nights following the devastating passage of Ian, which reached the west of the island as a powerful Category 3 hurricane. The images that it left behind are devastating. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton, November 14, 2022
The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro and Inacio Lula da Silva this year in Colombia and Brazil have raised hopes for a new strong impulse towards the full emancipation of Latin America and the Caribbean. The recent reopening of relations between Colombia and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has reinforced that optimism, along with the likely early abandonment of failed impostor Juan Guaidó by his American owners, (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on November 13, 2022
Cuban television aired this Saturday night the movie Victor Frankenstein, one of the many film and television versions of the novel by British writer Mary Shelley. The story of the man who, by putting together parts of corpses, creates a new being that ends up being a monstrosity rebelling against its creator (more…)
By Cindy Forster on November 14, 2022
compesinos in Santa Cruz are organizing against right wing violence
Most of Bolivia’s Right is murderous, but one of its captains, Luis Fernando Camacho who led the paramilitary aspects of the 2019 coup, is apparently too powerful to arrest, and became governor of the stronghold of the Right in Santa Cruz. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on November 13, 2022 from Havana
The 38th edition of the Havana International Fair (FIHAV) will be inaugurated tomorrow in Cuba after two years of virtual contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is Cuba’s most important business exchange, and this year will host over 400 participants from over 60 countries. China, Spain, France, Russia, Venezuela, and Canada account for the largest representations. (more…)
By Carola Chavez on November 12, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron catches up with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at COP27 in Egypt
“Président Madugro!”, Macron almost shouted, picking up the pace to catch up with Nicolas Maduro before winter catches up with him and his denialist colleagues who until late summer insisted on their plan to disown the president of Venezuela in favor of a grainy little mamarracho, because they were ordered to do so from the White House. Oui, monsieur! That is, yes, sir! (more…)