By Zoe Alexandra on November 4, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
As the people of the United States head to the polls, people across the world are left to wonder how a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris victory will impact their countries, given the global hegemon’s central role in geopolitics. This is especially true in the socialist Republic of Cuba, which for over 65 years, has faced a comprehensive economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the US government and maintained continuously by different Democratic and Republican administrations. (more…)
By Raul Antonio Capote on November 4, 2024 from Havana
Regardless of the electoral outcome, Cuba will remain a thorn in the side of those who really rule in the United States. (more…)
By Gloria La Riva from Matanzas, Cuba on November 4, 2024
Left to right, Dariel Torrens Aldama, electrical system; Luis Dueña Cordero, electrical system; Reinol Hernández Bejerano, head of control block; Jasel González, boiler control; standing, Javier Quiroz Pérez, head of plant operations. photo: Gloria La Riva.
“There is really a willingness, a true dedication of the workers. Every time we call them, the response is total. We have a consciousness that a problem cannot wait. It cannot wait. It is a matter of security that we must work day and night without stopping until we return the plant to power.” Ruben Campos Olmos, General Director of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, spoke about electrical workers in his plant and across Cuba, who worked night and day to restore power to Cuba after the country was plunged into darkness recently. (more…)
November 3, 2024
photo: PL
As part of the Silk Road and Belt initiative, the China Development Bank earmarked $160 billion in investment to finance more than 250 projects to promote economic and social development in Latin America. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on November 3, 2024 from Puerto Rico
This first week of November, here in Puerto Rico, one can feel an atmosphere of both nervousness and profound hope for change. Next Tuesday, November 5th, general elections will be held, and everything indicates that it will be a historic process. (more…)
By Juana Carrasco Martín on November 2, 2024 from Havana
graphic: Ares
This Tuesday, November 5, it is to be decided who will take over the administration of the empire from the White House. The bidding reaches its climax, but not much will change in the general political lines. The main contenders are only two sides of the same coin. (more…)
By John Perry on November 2, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro
Governments in Latin America have been at the forefront of opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and several of those which have done so suddenly face new threats, even including attempted coups. (more…)
By William Leogrande on November 1, 2024
graphic: Felix Azcuy
From the early 1980s until President Barack Obama announced his intention to normalize U.S.-Cuba relations ten years ago on December 17, 2014, Cuban-American voters in South Florida wielded a virtual veto over U.S. policy toward Cuba. (more…)