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Argentine Media Outlet Vows to Resist Eviction from Historic Space of Memory

By Pablo Meriguet on April 2, 2025

Virrey Cevallos building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo: Gobierno de Argentina

Independent Argentine media outlet El Grito del Sur publicly condemned efforts by the far-right government of Javier Milei to evict them from the “Space for Memory Virrey Cevallos”. During Argentina’s last civic-military dictatorship, Virrey Cevallos served as a clandestine detention center. (more…)

While Trump Hands out Tariff Hikes his anti-Cuban Team Prepares its Offensive

By Editorial of Razones de Cuba

Carlos Giménez’s and Mauricio Claver-Carone

While former President Donald Trump distracts himself with his international maneuvers and Elon Musk continues to cut back on the government apparatus and US foreign aid, the anti-Cuban team in the US administration is busy preparing a new offensive to intensify the siege against Cuba. (more…)

Two Hundred Years Ago, France Strangled the Haitian Revolution with an Inhumane Debt

By Vijay Prashad on April 24, 2025

When the Enemy Attacks, Everyone Stands up of Their Own Free Will to Defend Their Homeland, Jean-Claude Sévère (Haiti), 1970.

Since its 1804 revolution, Haiti has been punished for its freedom – crippled with debt, coups, and foreign meddling – but we must never forget that it was the first successful anti-imperialist revolution. (more…)

The Cuban Saga of Francis

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 24, 2025

Pope Francis

I had the privilege of accompanying the papal flight to Cuba and the United States in September 2015. As the only journalist from the country being visited, I was granted the first question at the traditional press conference on board the plane. It was there, in mid-flight between Santiago de Cuba and Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, that for the first time a pope called the blockade by its name, without resorting to the euphemism “embargo,” breaking decades of silence from the local curia. “My wish is that relations between Cuba and the United States come to a successful conclusion,” Francis added at the time. (more…)

China Condemns US for Imposing Tariffs on Haiti Amid Worsening Crisis in the Caribbean Country

By Mauro Ramos on April 23, 2025

Marco Rubio with Fritz Alphonse Jean, new president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (CPT). Photo: Wikimedia Commons

“While claiming to support the Haitian people, the United Stateshas significantly cut foreign aid and continued to deport Haitian immigrants under the pretext of national priorities, just when Haiti urgently needs support,” Geng Shuang, China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), said on Monday, April 21, at the Security Council. (more…)

Argentina: Milei Government to Implement New Cuts after Agreement with IMF

April 22, 2025

Argentina’s President Javier Milei. Photo: Manu Fernandez/AP

The agreement with the IMF requires deeper cuts in the energy sector, which would lead to the reclassification of more than 3.2 million middle-income users and place them in the high-income category (N1), as part of the intensification of spending cuts in the energy sector. (more…)

Rosa María Payá and José Daniel Ferrer, Paid by the US, Call for a Second Economic Blockade Against Cuba

April 22, 2025

Jose Daniel Ferrer: god, country and liberty

On April 9, in a telematic hearing before the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, counterrevolutionary figures Rosa María Payá and José Daniel Ferrer—financed and promoted by the US government—demanded new economic sanctions against Cuba, (more…)

Francis, the Pope of the Excluded, is Leaving

By Geraldina Colotti on April 21, 2025

Pope Francis

“No one can serve two masters; for he will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.” You cannot follow both the God of heaven and the god of money (Mammon, according to Canaanite religious tradition), that is, profit, gain, and wealth. This is what the New Testament prescribes (Mt 6:24-34). (more…)

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