By David Montgomery on May 16, 2024
May 1, Havana, Internationalists call for an end to the blockade of Cuba in front of the US embassy, photo: Bill Hackwell
After campaigning on reversing Trump’s regressive policies in the region, Cuban Americans are frustrated by the president’s subsequent passivity. (more…)
May 15, 2024 from Havana
Foto: Estudios Revolución
Interview granted by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, to Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish professor and journalist, at the Palace of the Revolution, on May 11, 2024, “Year 66 of the Revolution”. (more…)
By Eric Nepomuceno on May 15, 2024
Initial estimates indicate that two billion dollars will be needed to recover what was destroyed in Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul, as the name implies, is the southernmost of the Brazilian states. It has an extensive border with Uruguay and, to a lesser extent, with Argentina and Paraguay. Its population oscillates, according to the institutes, between the fifth and sixth largest in Brazil. And it has the fourth largest economy in the country. (more…)
May 14, 2024, Prensa Latina from Mexico City
My Country, Better Without the Blockade, photo: Bill Hackwell, Havana
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday reiterated his call to the United States to suspend the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, and applauded a recent decision on remittances to the Caribbean Island. (more…)
By Aura Torrealba on May 13, 2024
Venezuelan Def. Minister Vladimir Padrino addresses the press at Miraflores Palace, Caracas. Photo: Manaure Quintero.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino condemned the announcement of the deployment of US F-18 fighter jets in Guyana and said that the Venezuelan Integral Aerospace Defense System has been activated amid this threat and provocation. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on May 15, 2024
In a tacit acknowledgement that the lie is unsustainable, the U.S. State Department announced today that Cuba is not included in its 2023 report on countries that do not fully cooperate in the fight against terrorism. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 14, 2024 from Havana
US – Cuba agricultural conference, photo: Abel Padrón Padilla
This Monday, business people and politicians from the United States and Cuba began a new round of talks to identify potential agricultural businesses that contribute to food supply and nutritional security on both sides of the Straits of Florida. The U.S. blockade against Cuba hits every sector of the country’s economy hard, but most especially the agricultural sector. (more…)
May 12, 2024
photo: Cenesex
The Cuban Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia took this Saturday its message of “Love is law” to central avenues of the capital’s El Vedado, along with pronouncements for a free Palestine and against the Israeli genocide. (more…)