By Geraldina Colotti February 5, 2024
Hugo Chávez Frías.
If history is not reduced to a museum, dates and anniversaries remind of the struggle of the oppressed classes, which have built or suffered its courses and resources. If history is not reduced to parody, it celebrates moments and figures who interpreted its meaning by anticipating leaps and ruptures and adds new pages to the book of the future. And new flags are raised. (more…)
By Kim Ives on February 2, 2024
Demonstrators demanding that Ariel Henry step down skirmished with cops on Jan. 30 in Petit Goâve.
Never have revolutionary conditions in Haiti been so favorable. The government of de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry is completely illegitimate, ineffective, and unpopular. The U.S. empire is preoccupied and overextended in contending with crises in Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, and Yemen. (more…)
By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on February 5, 2024
The current attack against the Spanish based Cubainformacion news service is spreading widely in certain independent media circles but it is practically invisible in the big cartelized media. Cubainformación is an essential international news service that focuses on the defense of the political and social project of the Cuban Revolution, (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 4, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The blockade against Cuba is real. It is palpable in the kilometer-long lines of cars that take hours or days in front of the gas stations nationwide, and in the lack of medicines in the national network of pharmacies, the shortage of medical supplies in hospitals, and the obstacles the country faces to purchase food on the international market. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on February 3, 2024 from Buenos Aires
photo: Diego Martinez
What happened on Friday evening in Congress was to be expected with the new law of infamy being passed in Congress 144-109. Meanwhile Milei’s “sergeant” Patricia Bullrich is very upset that the people of Buenos Aires do not comply with her authoritarian ordinances. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor on February 4, 2024
Cheryl LaBash (left) and Lisa Valanti, next to their cars with “Cuba Sí” license plates
Car license plates in the United States have the standard format of 150×300 mm. The top part shows the name of the state and the bottom part usually has a motto or phrase famous in the state. This is the story told by Cheryl LaBash, the owner of a Toyota with an unusual, interesting and supportive license plate circulating around in that country. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on February 3, 2024
Maria Corina Machado, always willing to sell out the homeland
Even the US business magazine Forbes expressed surprise at the reimposition of US sanctions on Venezuela’s gold sales and its threat to do the same with oil. The oil sanctions especially, if reinstated, would precipitate higher gas prices and further debilitate the Venezuelan economy, forcing more people to leave the country out of economic necessity. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 1, 2024
Who needs press conferences with civilized exchanges, debates with politicians behind podiums or speeches in a square when you have instant access to unfiltered digital platforms and artificial intelligence (AI)? (more…)