A book review by Rick Sterling on August 9, 2023
Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted coups, dictatorships, sanctions and outright invasions. Nicaragua may take the cake for being the most victimized. Now Dan Kovalik has written Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance a book which reviews the history of intervention and resistance up to the present day. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 8, 2023
Assembly of the Peoples for the Amazon make demands to leadership summit. photo: Hannah Letícia
Today, the summit of Amazon countries kicked off in the Brazilian city of Belém amid great expectations for reaching agreements to halt the destruction of the largest tropical rainforest on the planet. It is no coincidence that Brazil is the ideal place for this event, now that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has committed himself to the protection and care of the Amazon since his return to power last January. (more…)
By Pascual Serrano on August 5, 2023
Miguel Diaz Canel, photo: Alejandro Azcuy Domínguez / Presidency of Cuba
Cuba, a country of just over eleven million people, is always in the news. However, its leaders are rarely heard. Miguel Díaz-Canel, the first president born after the Cuban revolution, responds to Público, in his first interview to a Spanish media since he took office, about the current affairs of the island in an interview arranged in Havana and later carried out in writing. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton, on August 6th 2023
The patterns of neocolonial intervention in the majority world by the United States and its allies since their victories over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945 are very clear. Almost immediately the Western countries started a cycle of bloody aggression against peoples resisting colonialism, followed later by the dependence of most African and Asian countries on the ruthless Western economic system. (more…)
By Anahi Rubin on August 7, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The Florida State Board of Education approved new guidelines for teaching black history, after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s Republican congressmen passed new laws, which limit educational content in schools. The new guidelines include teaching students that “slaves developed skills that in some cases they were able to use for personal gain.” (more…)
By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet on August 6, 2023
the current Cubadebate collaborators,
photo: Adrian Juan Espinosa,
In August 2003, most of us didn’t even have a cell phone of our own. And although the world was talking about that year as a year of transition for the Internet due to broadband and other advances, in Cuba the network of networks was something very incipient, a matter of experts, as it is often said when you feel that progress does not touch you. (more…)
August 6, 2023
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, observed today the 78th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 3, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
It is not exceptional for a U.S. senator to be investigated for corruption, but it is a record for him to have to appear in court twice for similar cause, in less than a decade.
Robert Menendez, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, escaped jail in 2018 when his corruption trial was declared a mistrial. (more…)