By Omar Rafael García Lazo on May 20, 2024
US embassy in Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
The author unravels the true meaning of the recent U.S. announcement on the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries “that do not collaborate” with its government in the “fight against terrorism”, while keeping it on another spurious and aggressive list of alleged sponsors of this scourge. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 19, 2024
Migrants continue their journey north in hopes of reaching the U.S. border, in Tapachula, Chiapas on the Guatemalan border, photo: AP
The common border between Mexico and Guatemala, with the Suchiate River as its natural boundary, is facing record migration flows, with an increase of almost 200 percent in irregular migrants intercepted in the first quarter of this year in the Aztec country. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on May 19, 2024
For all the hullabaloo about “free and fair elections” in Venezuela by the US government, its sycophantic corporate press deliberately ignores the elephant in the room – namely, the so-called sanctions designed to make life so miserable that the people will acquiesce to Washington’s plan for regime change. (more…)
By David Montgomery on May 16, 2024
May 1, Havana, Internationalists call for an end to the blockade of Cuba in front of the US embassy, photo: Bill Hackwell
After campaigning on reversing Trump’s regressive policies in the region, Cuban Americans are frustrated by the president’s subsequent passivity. (more…)
May 15, 2024 from Havana
Foto: Estudios Revolución
Interview granted by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, to Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish professor and journalist, at the Palace of the Revolution, on May 11, 2024, “Year 66 of the Revolution”. (more…)
By Eric Nepomuceno on May 15, 2024
Initial estimates indicate that two billion dollars will be needed to recover what was destroyed in Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul, as the name implies, is the southernmost of the Brazilian states. It has an extensive border with Uruguay and, to a lesser extent, with Argentina and Paraguay. Its population oscillates, according to the institutes, between the fifth and sixth largest in Brazil. And it has the fourth largest economy in the country. (more…)
May 14, 2024, Prensa Latina from Mexico City
My Country, Better Without the Blockade, photo: Bill Hackwell, Havana
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday reiterated his call to the United States to suspend the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, and applauded a recent decision on remittances to the Caribbean Island. (more…)
By Aura Torrealba on May 13, 2024
Venezuelan Def. Minister Vladimir Padrino addresses the press at Miraflores Palace, Caracas. Photo: Manaure Quintero.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino condemned the announcement of the deployment of US F-18 fighter jets in Guyana and said that the Venezuelan Integral Aerospace Defense System has been activated amid this threat and provocation. (more…)