By Alejandra Garcia on February 12, 2023
photo: cuba presidencia
Cuba and Mexico continued to strengthen their ties of brotherhood Saturday, as the president of the Caribbean island, Miguel Díaz-Canel, received from the hands of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration awarded to a foreign head of state. The act, which took place during the visit of the Cuban leader to the State of Campeche, represents a new seal to a close bilateral relationship that goes beyond the symbolic. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 11, 2023
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin
The new banality of evil is tourism, capable of turning a Nazi concentration camp, where 200,000 people were interned between 1936 and 1945, into an object of consumption. In Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, more than 30,000 died from disease, starvation, medical experiments, torture or the gas chamber. (more…)
By Víctor Villalba on February 11, 2023
photo: Víctor Villalba
The Minister of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba, José Ángel Portal Miranda, bade farewell last night at the Havana airport to the Medical Brigade made up of members of the International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics “Henry Reeve”. (more…)
By Marcos Roitman Rosenmann on February 8, 2023
The fear of disappearing as a hegemonic power awakens the survival instinct. The United States (US) has entered a dangerous drift, the end of which puts the future of humanity at risk. If a nuclear holocaust is on the horizon, it is no coincidence. The cultural reason of the West is facing its worst nightmare: being trapped in a war where it cannot see the way out. (more…)
An interview with Rogelio Polanco, Head of the Ideological Department of the Cuban Communist Party
By Katrien Demuynck on February 7, 2013
Cuban Youth, photo: Anabel Díaz, Granma
KD : The challenge with the youth is great. There is a group of young people who are emigrating, does that mean that they no longer see prospects in their own country and think they will be better off elsewhere? (more…)
An interview with Rogelio Polanco, Head of the Ideological Department of the Communist Party of Cuba
By Katrien Demuynck on February 6, 2023
70% of Cubans were born under the blockade
Cuba is currently going through an extremely difficult time. How does this island manage to hold its ground in spite of everything? What are the challenges it faces and how are they being addressed? We put these questions to Rogelio Polanco. (more…)
By Jimmy Zuniga Wallace and Ben Norton on February 7, 2023
Thelma Cabrera and Jordán Rodas of Guatemala’s Movement for the Liberation of the People (MLP)
Guatemala’s notoriously corrupt right-wing government has blocked a prominent leftist Indigenous leader from running in the June 2023 presidential election, in a move that international observers have condemned as an “electoral coup”. (more…)
February 8, 2023
Venezuelan rescue brigade preparing to go to Syria and Turkey
On Monday, February 6, after the devastation and material damage in Syria caused by a massive 7.8 earthquake, Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Relations Yván Gil met with the Syrian Ambassador in Caracas, Kenan Zaher Al Deen, to coordinate support that the Venezuelan government will provide Syria. (more…)