By Arthur Gonzalez on April 23, 2024
María Payá photo: EFE
We have lost count of the number of international trips made by Rosa María Payá Acevedo, since she obtained a political refugee visa for the United States, shortly after the death of her father, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, in a car accident in 2012, when he was traveling in a car driven at excessive speed by the Spaniard Ángel Carromero, a member of the youth of the Spanish Popular Party. (more…)
By Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez on April 25, 2024 from Caracas
Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez at the XXIII ALBA-TCP Summit, Photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the XXIII ALBA-TCP Summit, in Caracas, on April 24, 2024, “Year 66 of the Revolution”. (more…)
By Luis Bruschtein on April 25, 2024.
Massive march in Buenos Aires for education
The first march was of the labor movement, on January 24, against the DNU, the omnibus law and labor flexibilization; the second was on March 24 for human rights. And this latest one has been the third big march against the government of Javier Milei, mobilized by the educational community in defense of public education. And they are getting bigger and bigger. (more…)
By Yousef al-Helou on April 23, 2024
Che in Gaza in 1959
Since the explicit Israeli colonisation of historic Palestine in 1948 supported by colonialist and imperialist powers, namely Britain and the US, the Palestinian struggle has become a global cause. Resistance was a natural response to the invasions and incursions better known as “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine”. (more…)
By Ignacio Ramonet on April 22, 2024 on April 21, 2024
Gabriel García Márquez,
I had been told that he was living in Havana but that, as he was ill, he did not want to see anyone. I knew where he used to stay: in a magnificent country house, far from downtown. I phoned and Mercedes, his wife, dispelled my scruples. With warmth she told me: “Not at all, it’s to keep away the heavies. Come, ‘Gabo’ will be happy to see you”. (more…)
By Becca Renk on April 24, 2024
photo: Becca Renk
Yesterday I attended mass. Instead of a priest, the mass was celebrated by Nicaraguan children – 10 fourth and fifth grade students. The kids led the congregation in prayers, passing of the peace, read the gospel and shared a homily. They invited congregants to share reflections on the reading – the Good Shepherd – and they blessed wine and soda crackers and served communion. (more…)
Por Yousef al-Helou.on 23 de abril de 2024
Che in Gaza in 1959
Desde la colonización israelí explícita de la Palestina histórica en 1948 con el apoyo de potencias colonialistas e imperialistas, a saber, Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos, la lucha palestina se ha convertido en una causa mundial. La resistencia fue una respuesta natural a las invasiones e incursiones más conocidas como “la limpieza étnica de Palestina”. (more…)
By Tubal Páez Hernández on April 23, 2024
“In the mural painting I am working on, which I will title Guernica, and in all my latest works, I clearly express my revulsion towards the military caste that has plunged Spain into an ocean of pain and death (…) it is the battle of reaction against the people, against freedom,” Pablo Picasso expressed about the painting that would become a dramatic symbol of the barbarity of war. (more…)