By Marcos A Maranges on November 22, 2022 from Havana
Today in the early morning hours, one of the most important singer-songwriters in the history of Cuba, the troubadour Pablo Milanes, who delighted millions of people around the world with his tuned guitar and unmistakable voice, passed away in Madrid. Milanes is, together with Silvio Rodriguez and Noel Nicola, one of the pivotal founders of the Cuban Nueva Trova movement, which had an enormous range and impact throughout Latin America and in some European countries. (more…)
November 22, 2022
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin presided Tuesday at the inauguration ceremony of a monument to the eternal leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro in Moscow. The sculpture stands on the square named after the Commander in the Sokol district. (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on November 22, 2022
Cuba’s Ambassador to the United Nations Yuri Gala López explains SSOT designation at the National Network on Cuba meeting in New York. photo: Bill Hackwell
The Biden administration certainly must have gotten the message after the 185 to 2 vote for the thirtieth consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly condemned the US starvation blockade on Cuba. Country after country from almost all continents not only condemned the U.S. economic war while making special emphasis to remove Cuba from the spurious arbitrary State Department List alleging State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT). (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 22, 2022
Gustavo Petro promised a change, and he is achieving it. One hundred days after his inauguration ceremony in Bogota’s Bolivar Square, the first left-wing president of this Latin American country has managed to implement 50 essential measures to lift Colombians out of endemic poverty and violence. (more…)
By Rubén G. Abelenda on November Nov 21, 2022
In these sad days, as the sixth anniversary of the departure of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution approaches on November 25, I heard an African friend say that he would have given more than 20 years of his life for Fidel Castro to be physically among us today. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on November 20, 2022
On December 18 and 19, Mexico hosted the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), a global meeting of far-right forces. Thinking about the date, the context, and the participants provide valuable information to elucidate what this meeting was all about. It was not an ordinary or scheduled meeting, but an emergency one after the successive failures of the regional right wing. (more…)
November 20, 2022
Hebe de Bonafini, photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, died this today at the age of 93 in Argentina. (more…)
By Jacqueline Fowks on November 18, 2022.
Pedro Castillo
The non-stop confrontation between the Peruvian Executive and Legislative Branches, which began in 2016 and has been accentuated since the rural teacher Pedro Castillo assumed the presidency, is growing more and more heated. (more…)