By Roger Stoll on November 20, 2023
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, 1937
The holocaust now visited on Palestine by US/Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 19, 2023 from Havana
President Diaz Canel receives a keffiyeh from a Palestinian medical student.
In little more than a month, 12,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, including 5,000 children, before the passive gaze of the governments of the world. It is the people of these countries who are protesting in large numbers for an end to the conflict that is leaving Palestine in ruins, in almost non-existent living conditions. (more…)
By Kurt Hackbarth on November 16, 2023
Western governments don’t represent the will of their populations on Gaza. photo: Bill Hackwell
As anger increases in the United States, Canada, and Europe over their leaders’ refusal to take a firm stand against the ongoing Israeli atrocities against Gaza, it is Latin America that is leading the way. (more…)
By Carlos Eduardo Sanchez on November 18, 2023
This afternoon, President Nicolás Maduro received at the Miraflores Palace his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, who is on an official visit to the country. The meeting was held in order to fortify binational relations, which since the Colombian president took office have undergone a change that aims at laying the foundations for new ties, characterized by cooperation, respect and solidarity, thus eradicating the vestiges of thorny moments caused by previous ultra-right governments of the neighboring nation. (more…)
By Ann Garrison on November 16, 2023
Liz Oliva Fernandez speaking in Boston. photo: Bill Hackwell
When oppressed people get organized, the US gets angry. It’s been punishing the people of Cuba since 1962.
On November 2, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that President John Kennedy imposed in 1962. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 16, 2023
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez
This week, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla presented at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva for the fourth time the nation’s report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism that evaluates member countries in the field of human rights. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on November 16, 2023
photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Today and tomorrow, an international tribunal is being held in the Belgian capital to denounce the damages suffered by the Cuban people as a result of the U.S. blockade that the island has been experiencing for more than six decades. (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad on November 15, 2023
photo: U Chile
The “story” bathed (profitably) in blood. Placed on the “editorial desks”, the weapons of ideological warfare are surgical instruments prepared to daily disfigure on (against) reality. They sanctify themselves with the alibi of “informing” about the “war” and take pleasure, unashamedly, in bloodbaths and spectacles of corpses. (more…)