By Alejandra Garcia on August 31, 2023 from Havana
‘with guard up’ photo: Bill Hackwell
During the upcoming weeks, all of Cuba will be involved in the preparations for the X Congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), the largest mass organization in the country, with activities that seek to create a social impact in the island’s communities. (more…)
August 30, 2023
photo: Manel Marquez.
The Chilean government will launch this Wednesday the National Search Plan for the Detainees Disappeared during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. (more…)
By Susana Hurlich on August 30, 2023 from Havana
BRICS has now become a force that can no longer be ignored. Founded in 2006 as BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), in 2010 South Africa joined to create BRICS. With a commitment to inclusive multilateralism, cooperation and the common good, BRICS aspires to offer itself and the global south a real alternative to western hegemony and the manipulative domination of the U.S. dollar. (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on August 30, 2023
The recent summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa) taking place in the midst of several political turbulences between Europe and an Africa that rejects European neocolonialism, has finally left behind the moments of unipolarity (US hegemony) and bipolarity (expressed in the conflict between Russia and the West, Europe, the United States and NATO), to consolidate a multipolar world. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on August 30, 2023
We have recently seen Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel touring the African continent with his work team. He was received everywhere as a son, as a brother and even as a father. We should not be surprised that this is the case, we only need to look back a little way to see why. (more…)
By Emir Sader on August 28, 2023, from Rio de Janeiro
Friends, journalists and others, ask, more and more constantly, how Argentina is seen in Brazil. There are so many things to talk about, but it is clear that they are now referring to Milei, the lead vote getter in the Argentine primaries. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on August 28, 2023
Donald Trump, the great showman of U.S. politics, has managed to make public capital out of the various accusations that have been made against him.
Each outing, each presentation, has been prepared in great detail to exploit the feelings of the electorate, especially of his fanatical followers. (more…)
By Elias Ferrer Breda on August 24, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The remarkable thing about this article is not its clear detail about how Cuba has been able to come up with a successful model for sustainable development but its source. Forbes Magazine, has marketed itself as the “Capitalist Tool” while yearly listing the richest people in the world and it is not a friend of Cuba. The article takes a u turn in the last paragraph when it considers all the advancement and innovation the Cuban people have made under a developing socialist model, but attributes it as a beneficial byproduct of the brutal US economic war and then raises the question if they can be applied to capitalist projects in developing countries. – editorial (more…)