By Luis Alberto Portuondo on April 7,2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
On April 7, 1930, the heroine of daily battles for the homeland and its women was born in Santiago de Cuba. The consecration of “all her life to fight for women” which, in short, is the same as thinking and building a fairer country, summarizes what Vilma Espín Guillois was. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on April 7, 2024
Ecuadorian police unit prepare to assault the Mexican Embassy in Quito
This Friday, the world witnessed a historic event in Latin America. Ecuadorian police officers stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito in search of Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador during the administration of Rafael Correa (2007-2017). Hours before this violation of international law was committed, (more…)
April 7, 2024
Ecuadorian police assault Mexican Embassy in Quito
The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity expresses its total solidarity with Mexico, a brotherly and supportive country, with its worthy government and diplomats who bravely defended the sovereignty of their country, before the brutal assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito on April 5, (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on April 5, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The past few days the Youth Congress has been held in the capital of all Cubans. Many young people gathered to discuss, propose, talk and look to the future of a Cuba that continues to live a silent war. A Cuba that is seeing how the Empire wants to take away from it the most precious thing it has, the clay to mold any possible horizon: its youth. (more…)
By Haiti Action Committee on April 6, 2024
April 6, Dr. Maryse Narcisse leader of Fanmi Lavalas, speaking from Haiti at an event organized by the Haiti Action Committee in Oakland CA.
The immediate crisis in Haiti goes back to the Feb. 29, 2004, coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the imposition of occupation forces, first by the US, France and Canada, then by a larger UN force, dubbed MINUSTAH, which, while overseeing the police, participated in several documented massacres, and introduced cholera in 2010. (more…)
April 5, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the wake of the US’ deliberate starvation of the Cuban people through sanctions, solidarity activists with the People’s Forum, a New York-based political education space, has organized a massive campaign to send 800 tons of wheat flour to the island. (more…)
April 4, 2024
Associated Press (AP) interview with Johana Tablada, Cuban Deputy Director General for the United States at MINREX by reporter Andrea Rodriguez. (more…)
By Alfred de Zayas and John Perry on April 3, 2024
2018, armed right-wing thugs seeking the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government burn down Radio Ya. Photo: Tortilla con Sal.
When the United Nations sets up a “commission of inquiry,” it can result in a powerful analysis of violations of human rights law, such as the one appointed in 2021 to examine Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its Apartheid practices. But other commissions can become political platforms aimed at demonizing a particular government by crafting narratives that give the semblance of objectivity, while suppressing all evidence that contradicts the prevailing geopolitical consensus. (more…)