By Marina Menéndez Quintero on January 31, 2024
photo: El Universal
It could be easily be predicted that the planned presidential elections to be held this year in Venezuela would be the scene of new attempts of pressure from the United States. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia in Havana on January 30, 2024
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba needs development, even if it seems impossible amid increasingly adverse international conditions. And it needs to develop without trampling on the most vulnerable but also in being consistent with the world around us which is unstable, marked by inflation, and the exponential increase in essential goods. All of this in world of escalating tensions. (more…)
By Dalia Reyes Perera on January 26, 2024
Just days after the triumph of the Revolution Fidel goes to Venezuela to thank them.
On January 23, 1959, just days after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro visited Venezuela. The leader’s stay corresponded to a historical debt Cuba had with the sister nation. (more…)
By Javier Tolcachier on January 29, 2024
II CELAC Summit in Havana, Cuba, 28-29 January 2014
These days we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on January 28, 2024.
Carlos Aznarez, photo: Bill Hackwell
Interview with Carlos Aznárez, director of Resumen Latinoamericano and long-time Argentine activist, on the recent events in the South American country and the genocide against the Palestinian people. (more…)
By Leidys María Labrador Herrera on January 27, 2024
On the eve of the 171th birthday of Jose Marti
Martí is one of those beings whose early death prevents us from evoking him without the question of “how much more could he have done?” However, we choose to remember him without pessimism or regrets, because he lived so intensely, so nobly and so justly, that it is enough for him to be eternal. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on January 25, 2024
Upon assuming the US presidency, Joe Biden asserted in his first major foreign policy address, “America is back!” For Latin America and the Caribbean, this has meant an “aggressive expansion” of the US military in the region. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on January 26, 2024 in Oakland California
Palestinian plaintiffs rally with supporters after their testimony in court, photo: Bill Hackwell
Just a few hours after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its provisional ruling on South Africa’s charge of Israel’s long genocidal attack on Gaza in The Hague today, another legal battle played out in the US Federal District Court of Northern California in Oakland. Only this lawsuit was directed at the Biden Administration’s complicity and enabling of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. (more…)