By Mauricio Caminos on June 25, 2025
In Defense of Public Universities
The university sector is reigniting its conflict with the Argentine government this week over the lack of salary increases, budget cuts, and insufficient support for students. In a deteriorating situation, with some 10,000 teachers having left their posts since Javier Milei took office, university rectors and teaching and non-teaching unions are planning a series of actions to protest against the Casa Rosada’s austerity measures. There will be a 48-hour strike on Thursday and Friday, a march to the headquarters of the Ministry of Education, and the collection of signatures to push for a new budget law for higher education institutions, which the president vetoed last year. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 24, 2025
image, Pete Marovich/European Pressphoto Agency
On June 13, amid growing internal and external questioning of the genocide committed against the people of Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government launched a military attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran using aircraft and missiles. As has been repeatedly stated since then, this move would not have been possible without the political, economic, and military support of the United States, even though Washington, D.C., has tried to claim otherwise. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 24, 2025
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a public letter to world leaders, calling for the convening of a “Summit for Peace and Against War” to address the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. In light of the growing violence in the Middle East, the Bolivarian leader proposed that the summit focus on finding immediate, yet lasting, solutions to the conflict while also emphasizing the need for nuclear disarmament and the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region. (more…)
June 23, 2025
Argentine President Javier Milei, foto: EFE
Deputies from the Unión por la Patria party are pushing for impeachment proceedings against President Javier Milei after he claimed that “Iran is an enemy of Argentina” and declared his “unconditional support” for Israel and the United States amid the war that has intensified violence and crossfire in the Middle East. (more…)
By Resumen Latinoamericano on June 24, 2025
The Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH) today called on the peoples of the world to mobilize for peace, in a statement that has already been joined by prominent intellectuals from Cuba and around the world. To add your support, write to the following email address: oficinaedhcuba@gmail.com (more…)
By José Luis Méndez Méndez on June 24, 2025
The bellicose mayor of Miami, Francis Suárez, who in July 2021 called for bombing first and then invading Cuba “humanitarianly” on the ruins of its cities, is now being echoed by the disastrous US demagogues Carlos Gimenes and the convert María Elvira Salazar, US representatives who are loudly demanding that the island be wiped off the map in the name of peace from the grave and US-style democracy. (more…)
June 24, 2025
cooperating for an inclusive and sustainable world
The Uruguayan government considers it essential that the founding members of the BRICS group advance in their role as a balancing factor in the international system, said Álvaro Padrón, advisor on regional integration and international cooperation to the Uruguayan government. (more…)
By Prince Kapone on June 18, 2025
When Edith M. Lederer ― a UN press-room fixture since Vietnam ― files a wire, the voice of Uncle Sam still echoes through the copy. Her latest piece for the Associated Press claims that Cuba’s global health brigades amount to “forced labor.” The accusation doesn’t come from a patients’ union or a medical watchdog; it drips straight from Senator Marco Rubio’s podium, yet Lederer repeats it verbatim, without pausing to verify whether the hundreds of thousands who have queued for Cuban care consider their physicians enslaved or emancipatory. (more…)