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Israel Follows its Elders

Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 10, 2024 from Havana

“homeland or death” the explosion of La Coubre

On March 4, 1960, the French steamship La Coubre exploded in the port of Havana with its cargo of 76 tons of arms and ammunition, as well as French cheese, window glass, and agricultural machinery. A total of 136 people died and another 200 were wounded. (more…)

Biden Proposes Banning Vehicles with Technology from China and Russia

October 8, 2024

photo: EFE

U.S. President Joe Biden proposed Monday a new regulation that will ban the circulation of two types of vehicles manufactured with technology linked to China and Russia: connected vehicles, which communicate with other cars or infrastructure, and autonomous vehicles, which circulate without a driver, something that in practice means the closure of the market to all new Chinese tourism. (more…)

Colombia: Claudia Sheinbaum Supports President Petro in the Face of Coup Attempt

October 9, 2024.

the presidents of Mexico and ColombiaMexican Head of State Claudia Sheinbaum has expressed her solidarity with the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, regarding the recently initiated and unconstitutional investigation of the National Electoral Council for his 2022 presidential campaign. (more…)

The Day of Cuban Culture Begins

By Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on October 10, 2024 from Havana

As it is every year in Cuba, in the month of October, the Day of Cuban Culture is taking place.

These celebrations commemorate the beginning of the struggles for independence and the creation of La Bayamesa, a war march that became the Cuban National Anthem (more…)

Israel Killed 175 Journalists for Telling the Truth about Gaza

October 7, 2024

Huda Hegazi, teleSUR correspondent in Gaza, Oct. 2024. Photo: teleSUR.

On Monday, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) confirmed that Palestinian journalists and media outlets have suffered 1,600 attacks in the past 12 months. (more…)

Che Guevara and His Living Example

By Alejandra Garcia on October 8, 2024 from Havana

Plaza of the Revolution, photo: Bill Hackwell

“Shoot, coward, you are going to kill a man,” were the last words Ernesto Che Guevara said to his executioner, Mario Teran, on that October 9, 1967, in La Higuera, Bolivia. Those words pronounced in the humble school of the village, with a thatched roof, tormented the Bolivian sergeant for the rest of his life, because of the courage of that man who looked serenely at death. (more…)

Stop Zionist Genocidal Aggression in Palestine and Lebanon!

Statement of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity  on October 7, 2024

Cease Fire Now!

The Resistance Will Win!

One year, 365 days of accelerated and intensified genocide against the Palestinian people.

One year of heroic Palestinian resistance to the massacre, bombings, forced displacement, kidnapping, torture, detentions, apartheid, extermination and unspeakable pain of slaughtered children, women and entire families. (more…)

Twenty Years Too Many for Simón Trinidad

By Tanya Núñez on October 4, 2024

FARC leader Ricardo Palmera, better known as Simón Trinidad, brought to Bogota, Colombia after his capture in Ecuador, January 2004. Photo: Miguel Menéndez/EPA/Corbis/file photo.

Many believe that Ricardo Palmera, better known by his nom de guerre, Simón Trinidad, can play a key role in achieving peace in Colombia, a country devastated by centuries of social, political, and armed conflict. (more…)

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