By José Antonio Aponte, Declaration of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC ) on October 31, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
UNEAC, made up of writers, artists and researchers from all over the country, has issued a statement after a group of young people in the province of Holguin, while celebrating the Halloween holiday (alien to our cultural identity), went out dressed in Ku Klux Klan hoods, asking: where are the blacks? (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on October 30, 2022
President Lula da Silva
Just a few minutes ago, Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced Lula da Silva’s victory by over 2 million votes or 1.5%. Undoubtedly it was a tight race with many obstacles for the progressive candidate, but in the end, the people’s will to leave behind 4 years of a disastrous government prevailed. (more…)
October 30, 2022
NYC photo: Erin Feely Nahem
Large demonstrations on the east and west coasts of the US took place yesterday calling for the end of the Blockade of Cuba as the annual vote in the General Assembly of the UN approaches this week. (more…)
By Susana Besteiro Fornet on October 27, 2022
opening of La Gota de Aqua at the Chaplin Theater in Havana
How much desolation can be contained in a mother’s tears? All that is caused by the impotence of knowing her daughter is sick. How much hope is there in the smile of a child? Absolutely all of it. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 26, 2022
So Com commander Laura Richardson meeting with Colombia President Gustavo Petro
NATO recently expanded to Sweden and Finland, has been de facto incorporated in Ukraine, and may extend to Georgia. Now, NATO’s entry into the Amazon is in the works under the aegis of newly elected President Gustavo Petro of Colombia. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on October 27, 2022
photo: Cuba Minrex
The XXIII Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the III Meeting between the regional bloc and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU) took place this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (more…)
By Javier Gómez Sánchez on October 27, 2022
Photo: La Jiribilla
The announcement issued last October 18 that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), after the devastation of Hurricane Ian, will make a donation of humanitarian aid valued at two million dollars to Cuba through the International Red Cross, immediately generated a media hullabaloo and a flurry of opinions in various digital networks. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on October 27, 2022
“No to unemployment, yes to work, workers in Santa Cruz protest bosses strike. photo: AFPPIX
The ultra right-wing governor of the department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, and his separatist clique have been maintaining an elitist and bosses’ strike against the government of Bolivia since October 21, which has already cost one life and economic losses of tens of millions of dollars. (more…)