July 14, 2023 from Havana
The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity for the Peoples, composed of men and women of good will, advocates for human dignity, peace and brotherhood among peoples, respectfully addresses you: (more…)
By Graciela Ramirez on July 17, 2023 from Havana
In memory of Marta Rojas, Ana María Radaelli, Guillermo Cabrera Álvarez, Lázaro Barredo, Antonio Moltó, Iroel Sánchez, chroniclers of the Revolution.
It is said in a few words: 60th Anniversary of the UPEC…but it means so much to celebrate these six decades of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, founded on July 15, 1963. (more…)
July 15, 2023
Lula re institutes the More Doctors Program
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva certified the law that allows the return to Brazil of the More Doctors program, created by the federal government through the provisional measure and approved by the National Congress. (more…)
July 15, 2023
Hundreds of people returned to the streets across Jujuy, demanding the abolition of the new constitution and release of the people arrested. Photo: Edgardo Valera/Télam
The judiciary of Argentina’s Jujuy province, on Wednesday, July 12, ordered the arrest of over 40 people, who participated in a massive march in the city of Humahuaca on June 30. The march was organized in rejection of the reforms to the Provincial Constitution, promoted by conservative Governor Gerardo Morales of the right-wing Radical Civic Union party. (more…)
July 14, 2023
Cuban President Diaz Canel on State visit to Portugal
In a state visit to Portugal today Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel said in a statement to the press, with his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, that Cuba will attend and participate in an active and very constructive way at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and European Union (EU) to take place in Brussels July 17-18. (more…)
July 14, 2023
The Berlin Academy of Arts has announced that it will award the 2023 Konrad Wolf* Prize to Julian Assange, despite the fact that he is unlikely to attend the ceremony scheduled for October 20, due to his detention in the maximum security prison of Belmarsh, in London (UK). (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on July 12, 2023
photo: Anton Medevedev
In the past six years, US foreign policy towards Venezuela can be encapsulated in one word: sanctions. There have been other aspects to it, like the propping up of a self-proclaimed “interim government.” But economic coercive measures have been front and center, both in terms of their widespread use and their impact on the Venezuelan people. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 13, 2023 in Havana
It is no coincidence that just days before Cuba marked two years since the July 11 riots, a nuclear-powered US submarine crossed Cuban waters and docked at the illegal base at Guantanamo Bay. From July 5-8, it remained afloat in that Cuban territory usurped and illegally occupied by Washington 121 years ago as a clear threat to peace in the region. (more…)