By Alejandra Garcia on April 21, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
April 19, 1961, is marked in the Cuban popular imagination as a day of national pride. Barely 72 hours after the landing of 1500 U.S.-backed mercenaries at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), in Matanzas, Cuba demonstrated to the world its willingness and determination to defend with arms the revolutionary process initiated on January 1, 1959. Witnesses of that three-day battle remember the complexity of the combat. Although Cuba was expecting the attack, it was surreal that it was really happening. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on April 21, 2024 from Havana
When a real and final catastrophe befalls us in Palestine, the first responsible would be the British and the second responsible would be the terrorist organizations formed from our own ranks. I am not willing to see anyone associated with such criminal and deceived people.- Albert Einstein in a letter of April 1948 after learning that Zionist paramilitary groups had murdered more than a hundred Palestinian Arab civilians in a Jerusalem village, Deir Yassin. (more…)
By Andreína Chávez Alava on April 19, 2024
Hillary Clinton went on a late-night talk show recently and told US voters to “get over themselves” and choose between Genocide Joe and Donald Trump in this year’s US presidential elections. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on April 21, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
A minute after midnight on April 18, the US reimposed coercive economic measures designed to cripple Venezuela’s oil industry. Later that day, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a new sanctions bill on Nicaragua. Meanwhile, Cuba protested the US’s six-decade blockade as talks resumed between the two countries on migration. (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on April 20, 2024 in Havana
Ramon Capote, photo: Yaimi Ravelo
An interview with Cuban journalist and researcher Raúl Antonio Capote, former double agent who infiltrated the CIA and author of the book “Guarimbas. Los gestores del caos” (Guarimbas. The managers of chaos) (more…)
By Michael Pröbsting on April 18, 2024
One of the leading Israeli media confesses that they are losing the war, despite military superiority and genocide. (more…)
By Jose Carlos Llerena on April 16, 2024
Palestine solidarity action in Cusco, Photo: Cusco con Palestina
On the night of Thursday, April 11, in Cusco’s Plaza de Armas, a group of four Israeli tourists attacked people participating in a vigil in solidarity with the Palestinian people that the committee holds every week. (more…)
April 17, 2024
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, criticized the Chilean government’s interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela, and stressed that through dialogue and respect it will be possible to combat transnational organized crime. (more…)