By Marcelo Colussi on August 27, 2023
Bernardo Arévalo and the Semilla Movement, photo: CLAE
Over the years the popular camp in Guatemala has definitely lost a lot and has been on the defensive. In accordance with what happened all over the world, the triumph of neoliberal plans and the fierce anti-communism left by the first Cold War (we are already living the second one), the advances and conquests of the common people have regressed in a phenomenal way. (more…)
By Yaima Puig Meneses and René Tamayo on August 27, 2023
Photo: Alejandro Azcuy Dominguez.
“Our house is your house,” Namibian President Hage Geingob assured today, in Spanish, to the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, at the start of official talks between the two delegations, this Sunday morning, at the State House headquarters. (more…)
August 25, 2023
solidarity with Haiti, no intervention, photo: Bill Hackwell
Haiti is witnessing a rise in violence once again as the country continues to oppose any foreign intervention, partially due to the mistrust in Ariel Henry. (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on August 15, 2023
Communal assembly at the Chávez -Bolívar Commune in Carache. (Voces Urgentes)
Ramón Grosfoguel is a Puertorican intellectual recognized for his work on the decolonization of knowledge and power. In part one of this interview, Grosfoguel talked about the continuity between the colonial and the neocolonial system in Venezuela. In part two, we discuss Venezuela’s options in terms of an economic model, and about the commune being the only real way for the revolution to survive. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on August 26, 2023
Fidel with Stella Calloni
In reality the Cultural Battle began with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959. There is nothing similar in history: an island in the Caribbean surrounded by dictatorships defeats a dictator imposed by the United States and achieves the surrender of the army and the police, subdued by the empire, while the economic power, the partners and mafias of that power fled to Miami. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 24, 2023
world leaders attending the BRICS Summit in South Africa. photo: Alejandro Azcuy
The BRICS group, an alliance of leading emerging economies formed by Brazil, Russia, India, and China in June 2009 with South Africa coming on board in 2010, concluded its first face-to-face meeting on Thursday after three years of impasse due to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. From August 22-24, Johannesburg, South Africa, was the scene of key discussions in an ever-changing geopolitical landscape. (more…)
August 24, 2023
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro participated this Wednesday, August 23, in the XV Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Brics, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an activity called “Brics+ Rapprochement Dialogue”. This is the first time that Venezuela participates in the meeting of the emerging political cooperation bloc. (more…)
By Dailenis Guerra Pérez on August 23, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
There are many ways to refer to Cuban women. There were mambizas, clandestines, guerrillas. Today you find them federated, since August 23, 1960. Our founding date of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) led by Vilma Espin. (more…)