By Bill Hackwell on May 3, 2025 from Havana
Int. Meeting in Soliarity with Cuba: Marcelino Vázquez Hernández
In a strong display of defiance and solidarity, over 5 million people marched in the cities of revolutionary Cuba this May 1. Through these impressive marches the Cuban people stood united and strong against the designs of the US to crush Cuba for its insistence that it will not succumb to imperialism or go back to the neo colonial status it had prior to 1959. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell and Cheryl LaBash, on May 1, 2025 from Havana
For Cuba Together We Create. photo: Bill Hackwell
The massive outpouring filled the emblematic Plaza of the Revolution in Havana this morning to show their resolve that they will not go back or give in to the maximum pressure that U.S. policy imposes on the Cuban people. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on April 2, 2025
Virrey Cevallos building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: Gobierno de Argentina
Independent Argentine media outlet El Grito del Sur publicly condemned efforts by the far-right government of Javier Milei to evict them from the “Space for Memory Virrey Cevallos”. During Argentina’s last civic-military dictatorship, Virrey Cevallos served as a clandestine detention center. (more…)
By Editorial of Razones de Cuba
Carlos Giménez’s and Mauricio Claver-Carone
While former President Donald Trump distracts himself with his international maneuvers and Elon Musk continues to cut back on the government apparatus and US foreign aid, the anti-Cuban team in the US administration is busy preparing a new offensive to intensify the siege against Cuba. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on April 24, 2025
When the Enemy Attacks, Everyone Stands up of Their Own Free Will to Defend Their Homeland, Jean-Claude Sévère (Haiti), 1970.
Since its 1804 revolution, Haiti has been punished for its freedom – crippled with debt, coups, and foreign meddling – but we must never forget that it was the first successful anti-imperialist revolution. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 24, 2025
Pope Francis
I had the privilege of accompanying the papal flight to Cuba and the United States in September 2015. As the only journalist from the country being visited, I was granted the first question at the traditional press conference on board the plane. It was there, in mid-flight between Santiago de Cuba and Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, that for the first time a pope called the blockade by its name, without resorting to the euphemism “embargo,” breaking decades of silence from the local curia. “My wish is that relations between Cuba and the United States come to a successful conclusion,” Francis added at the time. (more…)
By Mauro Ramos on April 23, 2025
Marco Rubio with Fritz Alphonse Jean, new president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (CPT). Photo: Wikimedia Commons
“While claiming to support the Haitian people, the United Stateshas significantly cut foreign aid and continued to deport Haitian immigrants under the pretext of national priorities, just when Haiti urgently needs support,” Geng Shuang, China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), said on Monday, April 21, at the Security Council. (more…)
April 22, 2025
Argentina’s President Javier Milei. Photo: Manu Fernandez/AP
The agreement with the IMF requires deeper cuts in the energy sector, which would lead to the reclassification of more than 3.2 million middle-income users and place them in the high-income category (N1), as part of the intensification of spending cuts in the energy sector. (more…)