By Alejandra Garcia on March 31, 2024 from Havana
photo: Jose Manual Correa
This Saturday, Cuba remembered the Palestinian Land Day and rejected in a heartfelt way the hatred and desire for extermination poured on the Gaza Strip. During this day of solidarity with the victims of Israel’s war that seems to have no end in sight, a group of Cuban visual artists came together to create a mural for all to see, at Paseo Avenue and 21st Street, in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana. (more…)
By Laura V. Mar and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez, Photos: Yaimi Ravelo
Havana, March 30, 2024 – Artists and cartoonists carried out an urban intervention in the central Paseo Avenue of the Cuban capital, on the occasion of the Palestinian Land Day, that commemorates the first general strike against the theft of part of the Palestinian territory by the Zionist regime. (more…)
By Itzamna Ollantay on March 28, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba, with its nearly 11 million inhabitants, distributed in more than 109,000 km² of territory, surrounded by sea, besieged and economically blockaded by the U.S. State, has a diametrically different fate than its island neighbor Haiti. (more…)
By Marco Teruggi on March 30, 2024
Argentine President Javier Milei, during a business event Photo: Diario Público.
Argentine President Javier Milei’s chainsaw has finally had a full impact on state workers. It has happened on the eve of the long weekend and Easter holiday, with the dismissal of about 11,000 employees of different national institutions located in the capital, Buenos Aires, as well as in their offices in the different provinces of the country. (more…)
By María Páez Victor on March 29, 2024
President Maduro speaking to supporters after registering his candidacy.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on March 28, 2024
photo weforum
Despite Predictions Latin America Plunges into Poverty and InequalityCalculations and predictions about the economy in the world, is beginning to show its first results for 2024. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts a slight decline in world growth to 2.9%, compared to 3% in 2023, forecasts that, so far, have been met fairly closely. (more…)
By Bhaskar Sunkara
photo: Bill Hackwell
On 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in force. (more…)
March 26, 2024
protestors against Kamala Harris take down US flag. photo: Yanina Arias
On Friday, March 22, Kamala Harris marked her first visit to Puerto Rico since becoming Vice President of the United States to attend a Democratic Party fundraiser, and was met with mass protests. (more…)