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Thinking for Cuba

By José Ernesto Nováez on March 15, 2024 from Havana

Thinking about Cuba today is not equivalent to thinking about any other latitude. Cuba is a small Caribbean island that for 65 years has been trying to build an alternative economic, political and social system to the prevailing international order. (more…)

With the Soul and Pen to Honor Martí

By Graciela Ramírez Cruz on March 15, 2024

Arleen Rodriguez receiving the Marti Journalism award with President Diaz Canel

Arleen Rodríguez Derivet receives the José Martí National Journalism Award for her life’s work. (more…)

Venezuela’s Election in the Crosshairs of New US Regime Change Scheme

By Zoe Alexandra and Walter Smolerek on March 15, 2024

Nicolás Maduro received by thousands in the city of Maturín.

Twenty-five years after Hugo Chávez took office and began the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, US officials have still not tired of dreaming up new plots to overthrow the country’s government. Five years ago, following the last presidential election, they attempted to install Juan Guaidó—a politician most Venezuelans had never even heard of—as the country’s head of state. (more…)

CELAC Should Revisit Its Position on Haiti

By Mona Péralte on March 7, 2024

“any type of hidden, disguised invasion, bringing troops from here or there… It is not the solution for Haiti.” Venezuelan President Maduro

The dangerous and fluid situation in Haiti is at a cross roads with the resignation of the US backed illegitimate president Ariel Henry. Meanwhile Kenya has pulled back on its offer to deploy police to Haiti in spite of the US increasing the bribe to $300 million. The outcome is currently unknown but with no puppet leader in place this can only be viewed as a setback for Washington..- Resumen editorial (more…)

The Conservative Political Action Conference and the Rise of Neo-fascism

By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on March 12, 2024 from Havana

serigraphy by Roberto Marta

On February 21-24 the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, United States, hosted a new edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference. (more…)

Palestine: Humiliation and Looting in Times of Tik Tok

By: Randy Alonso Falcón on March 14, 2024

Israeli soldiers stand next to a truck full of bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, in Gaza. Photo: Moti Milrod, Haaretz,

Like the colonial hordes of yesteryear or the imperial legions of these times, humiliation is a weapon of choice for the invading Israeli army. It is consubstantial with the racist and supremacist breath of Zionism professed by the Israeli government and armed forces. (more…)

Cuba: Palestine in “La Lenin”

By Ana Hurtado on March 12, 2024 from Havana

Dr. Watan at Lenin School, photo: Ana Hurtado

This past Wednesday the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Pre-University Vocational Institute of Exact Sciences was privileged to receive a visit from Palestinian doctor Watan Jamil Alabed and two Palestinian medical students studying at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM). (more…)

Honduras: The Narcodictator in His Labyrinth

By John Perry on March 12, 2024

Juan Hernandez, photo: Gustavo Amador Sipa

Prosecutors in New York this month claimed they had cracked ‘the largest drug trafficking conspiracy in the world’. While it lasted, more than four hundred tons of cocaine were shipped to the United States from clandestine airstrips in Honduras by characters with aliases such as ‘The Tiger’ and ‘El Porky’. Million-dollar bribes were paid to government officials. A drug payment of $4 million was handed over in a duffel bag at a filling station. (more…)

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