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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…)

Hundreds of Thousands Mobilize in Defense of Public Education in Argentina

By Pablo Meriguet on October 4, 2024

The center of Buenos Aires was completely full with protesters calling on Javier Milei to approve the Financing Law. Photo: CONADU

On October 2, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Argentina to demand that Javier Milei’s neoliberal government cease its attempts to defund public university education. It was the largest protest to date against Milei’s harsh neoliberal measures, yet the libertarian head of state refused to budge. (more…)

Venezuela: What Room for Maneuver Does María Corina Machado Have?

October 5, 2024

Far-right Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado and former presidential candidate Edmundo González waving at supporters. Photo: X/@EdmundoGU.

María Corina Machado has not made any public appearances for almost 40 days. After ambivalent statements about her “clandestinity,” she has been accused of preparing to leave the country. She insists she is in Venezuela but has not given any proof of this. She affirms, as did Edmundo González when he was applying for asylum in Spain, that she will not leave the country. (more…)

Vigorous Repudiation of the Complicity of the US with Violence against Cuba

A Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Relations on October 4, 2024

Cuban Embassy in Washington DC on the night of the attack. photo: Cubadebate

The Ministry of Foreign Relations of Cuba vigorously repudiates a new act of complicity of the United States with terrorist violence against Cuba. (more…)

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