June 17, 2025
Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez spoke out on his various social media accounts on Tuesday, June 17, about the tense situation in the Middle East, reaffirming Cuba’s commitment to global peace and nuclear disarmament. (more…)
By Elson Concepcion Perez on June 13, 2025 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
What is happening these days in Los Angeles, and in other cities across the United States, is a clear expression of the crisis of the system. (more…)
By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on June 16, 2025
Luisito Comunica
Poverty is, unfortunately, all too common in Our America and in even more distant latitudes. However, it tends to be under represented in media analyses of our region, with the clear exception of a group of countries, such as Venezuela or Cuba, where, on the contrary, its representation is heightened, presenting it as a clear symptom of the inevitable failure of socialism. (more…)
By Amy Booth on June 15, 2025 from Buenos Aires
A splintered offering on both left and right means the presidential vote is likely to go to a second round (more…)
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…)