Por Bill Hackwell, el 15 de junio de 2025, desde Oakland, California.
No KIngs, Oakland California, fotos: Bill Hackwell
Millones de personas participaron el sábado en una nueva ola de protestas en todo Estados Unidos para defender las libertades civiles y rechazar la política migratoria dictatorial de la administración Trump y su enfoque racista, excluyente y autoritario, al tiempo que apoyaban el genocidio de Israel contra el pueblo palestino y su instigación y apoyo a la guerra de Israel contra Irán. (more…)
By Diana Block and the Bay Area Cuba Solidarity Network – June 14, 2024
Mayor Barbara Lee welcomes Cuba’s Yasser Ibarra and David Ramirez at the event at Oakland’s Unitarian Church. – Photos: Bill Hackwell
Hundreds of people across the Bay Area and Sacramento welcomed Yasser Ibarra, First Secretary, and David Ramirez, Second Secretary, from the Cuban Embassy in D.C. with warm expressions of solidarity over the four day Let Cuba Live tour. Members of community, political and church groups as well as elected officials, including newly elected Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, turned out to demonstrate their support for Cuba as the Trump-Rubio diabolical duo unleash new draconian attacks every day. The broad success of the tour is built on decades of political, social and cultural interchange with Cuba, its people and its institutions. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on June 15, 2025 from Oakland Ca.
Millions of people took part in a new wave of protests across the US on Saturday to defend civil liberties and reject the Trump administration’s dictatorial immigration policy and its racist, exclusionary, and authoritarian approach, while supporting Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people and its instigation and support of Israel’s war with Iran. (more…)
By Carlos Fernandez de Cossio on June 13, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Like any developing country, Cuba faces the disadvantages of an international economic order inherited from colonialism and neocolonialism, which perpetuates the subaltern status in the international system of those who suffer from underdevelopment, unequal exchange, and limits on the transfer of technology and capital from developed countries, most of them former colonial metropolises, beneficiaries of the regime of exploitation, plunder, and slavery that this regime represented. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on June 12, 2025
“we look for the poorest” photo: Bill Hackwell
“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, located in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission), a joint initiative run by the Cuban and Venezuelan governments. The larger mission has treated over seven million patients in 33 countries since 2004. Local Nicaraguan doctors, trained by the Cubans, are now in charge in Ciudad Sandino. (more…)
By Laura Mor on June 12, 2025 from Havana
foto: Ina Fassbender
Gaza, Gaza! echoed on Tuesday at the Havana headquarters of the Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU), where representatives of Cuban civil society gathered in response to the call to condemn Israel’s new violation of international humanitarian law. (more…)
June 12, 2025 from Caracas
Colombia President Gustavo Petro
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has blamed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for an orchestrated plot to overthrow Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Luis Caldera, the newly elected governor on May 25 in the northwestern state of Zulia, the president emphasized that “they have activated a plan to overthrow the government” of the Colombian leader. (more…)
By Jill Clark-Gollub on June 11, 2025
Left Photo: Inmate in Nicaragua receives diploma (19 Digital). Right Photo: Inmates dehumanized in El Salvador (El Salvador Presidency handout/Anadolu/Getty Images)
Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances.
Opposition media from both Nicaragua and El Salvador, along with the Washington Post, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, all vilify Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by equating him with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. (more…)