By Beto Rodriguez on January 4, 2024
3478. the number of Cubans killed by US sponsored terrorism since the revolution.
On the afternoon of November 24, 2023, the U.S. Embassy in Cuba issued an alert to its citizens wishing to enter the island for “potential terrorist acts, demonstrations and acts of violence against the United States, its citizens and its interests.” (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on January 4, 2024
44% of the Guatemalan people are Mayan. photo: Bill Hackwell
Guatemala’s president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo de León, will take office on January 14 with high expectations for radical change. It remains to be seen if his ambitious plan will succeed, but for the time being, any of his decisions will be a step forward in a country that is 44% Mayan and where more than 50 percent of the population lives in conditions of extreme poverty. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on January 2, 2024
Argentina Preident Milei
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) has called for a general strike and a march next January 24 to go before Congress in rejection of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) announced on January 20 by the ultra-right-wing President Javier Milei and which contains more than 300 measures that affect the workers and the people in general, (more…)
January 3, 2024
photo: Minsap
For Cuban children, all love and dedication is not enough. That is why translating the efforts and commitments of more than 400,000 health workers throughout the country into tangible results allowed Cuba to reduce its infant mortality rate to 7.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023. (more…)
January 2, 2024
photo: John Moore
In 2023 more than 500,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap, the dangerous swampy jungle on the border between Colombia and Panama, the Panamanian Ministry of Public Security reported Monday on its networks. (more…)
By Gloria Muñoz Ramírez on December 31, 2023
The Zapatista’s struggle for Dignity. Chiapas Feb. 2001, photo: Bill Hackwell
What motivates today a group of Valencian activists to make a whirlwind trip to the Mexican Southeast to celebrate with the Zapatistas the 30th anniversary of the beginning of their insurrection? (more…)
By Raúl Castro Ruz on January 1, 2024
Commemoration for the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution at Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Park in Santiago de Cuba. Photo: Ismael Francisco
Compatriots:
We arrive at the 65th anniversary of the triumph of our socialist Revolution. Many have been the challenges we have had to face to reach this point; but it has been worth it, the work of the Revolution and its social achievements, even in the midst of difficulties, corroborate this. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 31, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This January 1st, Cubans mark the beginning of a new year full of hopes, full of challenges, and we will wait for this 2024 as usual, with our families, in a peaceful country. But we will also celebrate that January 1, 1959, when our people woke up to the news they had been longing for for centuries: The Revolution, the definitive Revolution led by Fidel, had won. (more…)