By Alejandra Garcia on October 14, 2024 from Havana
Reenactment of Columbus landing on the Northeast Coast of Cuba October 28, 1492. photo: Bill Hackwell
Every October 12, the peoples of the Americas remember the first arrival of Christopher Columbus to the New World, in 1942, as a date that marks a milestone in the history of genocide, plunder and exploitation. Far from being a day of celebration, it is a day of struggle, of resistance to oblivion. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on October 11, 2024
Rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina in support of Palestine. Photo: Gabi Barraza
During the last year of Israeli genocide in Gaza, progressive and left groups in Latin America, as well as heads of state and parliamentarians, have repeatedly denounced the genocide of the Palestinian people through marches, rallies, meetings, artistic activities, pronouncements, and other means to reject Israeli crimes. (more…)
October 11, 2024.
The Vice President of Nicaragua has announced that the President, Daniel Ortega, has given the order to comply with the request of the National Assembly to break ties with Tel Aviv. (more…)
By Berta Joubert-Ceci on October 12, 2024 from Puerto Rico
Whoever votes PNP does not love Puerto Rico
With each passing day, Puerto Rico sinks deeper into a neoliberal process that threatens its very existence. From the purely geological issue, with supposed legal approvals for construction in coastal locations that involve the removal of mangroves and corals that are the natural barriers against coastal erosion, to the displacement of communities that give way to luxury housing for millionaire foreigners. There is a replacement of our population. (more…)
By José Luis Méndez Méndez on October 12, 2024
Members of the al-Zanati, family killed following an Israeli strike, being taken to burial.Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP
The first year of an unending genocide has passed, the pretext began on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian resistance decided to respond to Israel’s perpetual aggression against its citizens, the invasion of their territory by usurping settlers, tired of suffering the demolition of their homes, (more…)
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…)
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…)
October 9, 2024.
Mexican 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…)