By Elson Concepcion Perez on December 16, 2024 from Havana
Fidel and the beginning of Mesa Redonda
Twenty-five years ago, our Fidel, in the midst of his creative work, conceived a television program to address international and national problems, as part of his conception of education and the formation of our people, based not on dogmas or whims, but on his own analysis and convictions always attached to the truth. (more…)
Cuban President Diaz Canel Photo: Estudios Revolución.
Speech by Cuban President and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, Miguel Díaz-Canel, at the XXIV Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 14, 2024. (more…)
December 15, 2024
Political prisoner Simón Trinidad (right). Photo: Campaign to Free Simón Trinidad
A few weeks ago, media reports revealed that the government of Gustavo Petro asked President Biden to pardon Simón Trinidad, a former Colombian guerrilla fighter who was sentenced to 60 years in prison in the United States after being captured in Ecuador in 2004 when he was on his way to meet with a United Nations delegate. (more…)
By Becca Renk on December 14, 2024
High school graduation in Nicaragua. photos: Becca Renk
I’m giving my new neighbor Wilmer a ride into town. He’s from the interior of Nicaragua, Siuna. To make conversation, I ask about horses. Wilmer explains to me the attributes of horses versus mules and donkeys, the relative cost of each animal and the cost of breeding a mare with a donkey. (more…)
image: Jorge
By Elson Concepcion Perez on December 12, 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump, faced with the threat of “the end of the dictatorship of the dollar,” announced the imposition of tariffs on the countries belonging to the Brics.
Threat as a policy has been imposed in the governmental lineage of the presidents of the United States when they wage wars or sanction whoever is convenient for them. (more…)
By Alma Muñoz and Néstor Jiménez on December 11, 2024 from Mexico City
Claudia Sheinbaum
In view of the appointment of the next U.S. ambassador to Mexico, retired Colonel Ronald D. Johnson, former CIA officer and former member of special forces of the army, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo assured that “with this ambassador or with others we will defend our sovereignty, our condition of equality and we will collaborate and cooperate in everything that is required, but always in the interest of the people of Mexico and the nation.” (more…)
By Arnold August on December 4, 2024
While genocide is a clear cause of the democrats’ defeat, economic issues are usually mentioned. What lingers behind the significance of the “it’s the economy” narrative? (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 11, 2024
On Tuesday, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected “in the most categorical terms” the so-called “Act to not recognize stolen trademarks in the United States”, recently signed by outgoing President Joe Biden. In yet another further attempt to strengthen the almost century-old blockade, the White House announced this new political move to widen the theft of authentic Cuban trademarks registered in that North American country. (more…)