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…)
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…)
March 11, 2024, Santiago Chile
The daughter of Commander Ernesto Guevara, a prominent leader of the Cuban Revolution, and the grandson of Nelson Mandela, leader of South Africa, arrived at the headquarters of the Academy of Christian Humanism University (UAHC) in Santiago, Chile today, to participate in a Cultural Meeting for Peace, as part of the Global Campaign for the Right of Return to Palestine. (more…)
By Leonid Savin on March 7, 2024
Both Russia and Latin America strive to build a multipolar and pluricentric world order and have their own integration projects
In recent months, Russia has significantly intensified contacts with the countries of South and Central America. With some of the states of the region, it is linked by long-standing ties of friendship originating from the Soviet Union era. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor on March 10, 2024
photo: Deisy Francis Mexidor
In order not to admit the lack of will to change the policy towards Cuba, the United States Government continues appealing to demagogic reasons, distortion and deceitful manipulation of pretexts. (more…)
By Judy Ancel on March 12, 2024
Juan Hernandez, photo: Gustavo Amador – Sipa
Ex-president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, popularly known as JOH, was convicted Friday in federal court in New York on drug trafficking and weapons charges. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 10, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The ousted Cuban Economy Minister, Alejandro Gil Fernandez, is under investigation by the island’s Interior Ministry for making serious mistakes in his previous position. In a statement issued on Friday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that, from now on, authorities will initiate corresponding actions for total clarification of these behaviors. The president assured that there would be zero tolerance for corruption on the island. (more…)
By Raúl Capote Fernández on March 10, 2024, from Havana
They say it was the Spanish poet, novelist and philosopher, Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana, who coined the phrase: “The people who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it”; a maxim that seems to acquire an astonishing topicality these days in the USA. (more…)