By Alejandra Garcia on August 8, 2024, from Havana
photo: Ricardo Lopez Hevia
Mijaín López has taken Cuba’s name to the top in the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, in France. on Tuesday, the Greco-Roman wrestling athlete won his fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal, a feat never seen before, admirable, especially for an athlete who is about to turn 41 years old. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on August 8, 2024 from Havana
The Kamala-Trump-Walz-Vance equation (Jessica Sosa Sosa / Cubahora)
While Walz exhibits concrete results at all levels, Vance appears to most voters as a question mark… (more…)
By Saheli Chowdhury on August 6, 2024
Far-right politician María Corina Machado and Edmundo González hold a candle in a religious rally before the Venezuelan elections. photo: Henry Chirinos/EFE.
The Venezuelan far-right former candidate for the presidential elections that were held on July 28, Edmundo González Urrutia, has declared himself the winner despite coming in second place. He has been recognized as the “president” of Venezuela by Washington and some of its vassal states as part of a plot reminiscent of the failed Guaidó project. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on August 7, 2024
As always the world’s media, were part of the lies and falsehoods, to weave a fictitious reality about the Venezuelan elections.
It has been more than a week since the presidential elections were held in Venezuela. If it were a comic movie I would believe it, or even a tragicomedy. But sometimes I find it hard to believe that this reality is really happening. (more…)
August 6, 2024
Through a statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry it was learned Monday that the Venezuelan government reached an agreement with Brazil for that country to take custody of the diplomatic missions of Argentina and Peru that are in Venezuelan territory as of August 1st. (more…)
August 6, 2024
tribute to the fireman who died in the Supertanker fire.
In front of the Firefighters Museum Cuartel Enrique Estrada, in Matanzas, tribute was paid to those fallen in the line of duty in the fire at the local Supertanker Base exactly two years ago. Seventeen chimes rang out in the surroundings of La Vigía square, and the sound of the sirens of the fire trucks and the National Anthem, preceded the roll call to keep present those who perished. (more…)
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, on August 4, 2024 from Caracas
The Bolivarian victory in Venezuela
By Gabriela Fernandez on August 5, 2024
Algeria’s Imane Khelif victory over Italy’s Angela Carini
The Paris Olympics have been particularly marked by gender issues. This could be the logical response of a society haunted by the rancid conservatism of a neoliberal right that is gaining strength and for which the state should not have a say or regulate on sexual and reproductive freedoms. (more…)