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Meta, Universal Landfill

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 16, 2025

Cybertrash without control and without borders. The Meta conglomerate, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, has announced that it will end its data verification program, which had been in place since 2016. Its founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, opportunistically accommodates the Trump era and his Machiavellian advisor Elon Musk, the owner of X and troll of the free flow of misinformation. (more…)

Chile: Gabriel Boric seeks a Cell Phone with more Human Connection

January 15, 2025

Gabriel Boric changes his phone. photo: Imneuquen.com.

The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, surprised everyone at the beginning of the week with the announcement that he is abandoning his smartphone to start using a simpler device, without internet connection, which will allow him to avoid somewhat the negative effects of digital hyper-connectivity. (more…)

Declaration of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity for Cuba

January 15, 2025 from Havana

Photo: Yaimi Ravelo , Resumen

From the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity we salute the victory of the Revolutionary Government, the Cuban people and the international solidarity that fought tirelessly for four consecutive years for Cuba to be removed from the List of Supposedly Sponsoring Countries of Terrorism (SSOT List) where it should never have been. (more…)

Marco Rubio, Hate as a Business and a Political Ladder

By Raúl Antonio Capote on January 15, 2025 from Havana

photo: DW

Barely 24 hours after outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden removed Cuba from the fallacious list of state sponsors of terrorism, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, spoke out on the matter. (more…)

Cosmetics Billionaire behind Trump’s Obsession with Buying Greenland

January 13, 2024

cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder, photo: AFP

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump again promoted his plans to buy Greenland, the Danish territory in the Arctic. Trump stepped up rhetoric about the island during a press conference last Tuesday, refusing to rule out the use of military force to obtain it, if necessary. (more…)

Statement of the Cuban Foreign Ministry on Removing Island from State Department of List of Countries Sponsoring Terrorism

Edited by Ed Newman on January 14, 2025 from Havana

On January 14, 2025, the United States government announced the decision to: 1) exclude Cuba from the State Department’s list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism; (more…)

Biden Removes Cuba from List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

January 14, 2025

Supporters  demand that Cuba be taken of the List of State Sponsor of Terrorism in Washington DC. June 2023, photo: Bill Hackwell

In his last few days in the White House, United States President Biden has announced that he will remove Cuba from the US’s list of State Sponsors of Terrorism in his final days as President, reversing Donald Trump’s addition of Cuba to the list in 2021. (more…)

Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Reaffirm Sovereignty with President Nicolás Maduro

January 11, 2025

Statement from the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations (ROA) Reaffirming Our Sovereignty with President Nicolás Maduro

Today, January 10, 2025, President Nicolás Maduro Moros was sworn in as the leader of all Venezuelans. (more…)

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