September 28, 2024
Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla speaking to the UN General Assembly
Speech by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the 79th United Nations General Assembly.
Mr. President:
Mr. Secretary-General:
Let my first words be to ratify Cuba’s solidarity and support for the brotherly Palestinian people, victims of more than 75 years of colonial occupation, of flagrant violations of their legitimate rights as a nation, subjected to cruelty, aggression, collective punishment and apartheid. (more…)
September 28, 2024
Volunteers meet at the People’s Forum to organize Palestine solidarity efforts. Photo: Wyatt Souers
On September 25, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson took to social media to attack several pro-Palestine organizations, which have been leading in the solidarity movement across the United States. (more…)
September 28, 2024.
Aleida Guevara, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuban internationalist activist Aleida Guevara March extended an embrace of love to the Lebanese and urged them to react united against the Zionist aggression together with the fighters of Hezbollah and to gather in their hands enough strength to defeat that enemy once and for all. The daughter of Che’s message of solidarity came just 24 hours before the criminal assassination of Hezbollah’ General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah. Israel used several 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs, provided by the US, on the Hreik neighborhood resulting in the cowardly assassination of the leader and others.
In the letter, Aleida extended an embrace of love to the Lebanese and urged them to react united against the Zionist aggression together with the fighters of Hezbollah and to take into their hands enough strength to defeat that enemy once and for all.
We must go ahead with all the courage to fight an enemy that does not respect human life and confront it until it is crushed, she stressed.
Aleida rejected the ongoing Israeli massacre of innocent people in Lebanon and urged the brothers in the land of cedars to continue the battle.
rally in support of Lebanon in San Francisco. photo: Bill Hackwell
Aleida’s letter followed the recent Israeli attack on Friday on six buildings in the Haret Hreik neighborhood of Beirut’s southern suburb, where so far two people were killed and 76 wounded.
Following the onslaught, teams of firefighters and rescuers arrived on the scene to extinguish the fires and begin work to remove debris and search for survivors and the injured.
According to Lebanese interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the attack shows Israel’s lack of interest in international calls for a cease-fire.
By Leandro Albani on September 25, 2024 from Argentina
protests around the world against Israeli attacks on Lebanon, photo: Bill Hackwell
The Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu has begun the mobilization of its genocide operation against Lebanon. And the question is how far will he go. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 26, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
World eyes are on the United Nations headquarters in New York City, as member states debate the most urgent problems of humanity during the 79th session of the General Assembly. Israel’s genocide against Palestine, which is now spreading to Lebanon and threatening the region and other continents, has been the main focus of these days of debate. (more…)
By Rosa Mirian Elizalde on September 26, 2024
The Malecon, Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is an island without a boat in sight. In Havana, from whatever height the bay can be seen, the sea is a neat blue line and days go by before a freighter crosses the horizon. It was not always like that. At the end of the 18th century and a good part of the 19th century, 40 percent of the traffic between America and Spain passed through Cuba, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on September 25, 2024
Ecuadorian President seeks to bring foreign military bases back to Ecuador. photo: Daniel Noboa
Last week, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa surprised Ecuadorians by announcing that he intends to reform the Constitution to allow the installation of foreign military bases. According to the Magna Carta, widely approved in a popular consultation in 2008, Article 5 stipulates that “Ecuador is a territory of peace. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on September 24, 2024 from San Francisco
Emergency protests broke out today in cities across the US calling for the immediate end to the US sending billions upon billions of military weapons to Israel as the world witnesses in horror the ongoing genocide in Gaza and now, with the green light from Washington, the new front that has been opened against Lebanon by the Zionist military. (more…)