By Randy Alonso Falcón on May 15, 2024
In a tacit acknowledgement that the lie is unsustainable, the U.S. State Department announced today that Cuba is not included in its 2023 report on countries that do not fully cooperate in the fight against terrorism. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 14, 2024 from Havana
US – Cuba agricultural conference, photo: Abel Padrón Padilla
This Monday, business people and politicians from the United States and Cuba began a new round of talks to identify potential agricultural businesses that contribute to food supply and nutritional security on both sides of the Straits of Florida. The U.S. blockade against Cuba hits every sector of the country’s economy hard, but most especially the agricultural sector. (more…)
May 12, 2024
photo: Cenesex
The Cuban Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia took this Saturday its message of “Love is law” to central avenues of the capital’s El Vedado, along with pronouncements for a free Palestine and against the Israeli genocide. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on May 13, 2024
illustration: Adán Iglesias Toledo
Just as parachutists are launched in free fall before opening the fabric that supports them, so is the United States when it observes how some economic-financial powers have been advancing on the planet and are cutting off the unipolarism it imposed after the disappearance of the Soviet Union. (more…)
May 13, 2024
photo: blu radio/ afp
“I am not a supporter of Hamas, because I am a supporter of republican, plebeian and secular democracy,” wrote Colombian President Gustavo Petro in one of the two messages he published on Saturday in response to Netanyahu’s remarks. (more…)
By Tracey Eaton on May 11, 2024
Bob Menendez
Sen. Bob Menendez, the most powerful Cuban-American to serve in Congress, goes on trial in Manhattan on May 13 on bribery and other charges. The New Jersey Democrat furiously denies the accusations and vows to wage his “biggest fight yet.” A forgotten story is that Menendez may not have reached the pinnacle of political power without the support of hardline Cuban exiles, including some accused of violent attacks on Cuba. (more…)
By Gilberto López y Rivas on May 10, 2024
0n the 79th anniversary of the Russian victory over Nazi GermanyBy Roberto Lopez on May 11, 2024 from Buenos Aires
Javier Milei receiving the Cutter James, a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, without Congressional authorization
Since April 4 -when on a freezing Fuegian night President Javier Milei stated that the realization of a joint base with the United States would be “a great logistic center that will constitute the closest port of development to Antarctica and will turn our countries into the gateway to the white continent”-, five NATO ships have arrived in our country. (more…)