By Alejandra Garcia on January 15, 2023
Jose Pertierra, photo: Bill Hackwell
On January 9, U.S. President Joe Biden announced new immigration measures for Cuba in an attempt to contain the crisis that has persisted on the southern border with Mexico since the era of his predecessor Donald Trump. The initiatives explicitly seek to discourage illegal migration of Cubans to the United States, while allowing a limited number of Cubans to enter the country under the so-called parole process. At the same time, those who do not qualify will be expelled. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on January 13, 2023
graphic: Al Mayadeen
“America for the Americans,” is the phrase with which Pedro Castillo closed his speech at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in April 2022, which he attended without his traditional rural teacher’s hat. In the midst of the schism caused by the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the United States, Castillo was one of those who chose to attend and not mention the issue that became the focus of the event. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote Fernández on January 12, 2023.
Watching over information security and denouncing Washington’s actions in this field has become a strategic issue for Cuba.Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents declassified by the U.S. Government reveal that this institution spied on the Cubana de Aviación Company in the 1960s. The evidence demonstrates the CIA’s meticulous monitoring of Cubana de Aviación flights to the island. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on January 12, 2023
Biden, AMLO, Trudeau photo: China Daily
The North American Leaders’ Summit recently ended in Mexico City with several analysts giving it a positive spin. The meeting took place in harmony, which not only speaks of the diplomatic efforts to avoid including the thorniest issues on the agenda but also of the respect, although begrudgingly, that the United States and Canada must have towards the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on January 12, 2023
Lula inspects the damage to the Panalto. photo: Eraldo Perez,/dpa
The attempted fascist Bolsonarist coup d’état of January 8 in Brasilia is not a merely local event. Everything indicates that it had international sponsorship. It is far from being a spontaneous revolt, as there are countless facts that demonstrate a high degree of organization, coordination and financing prior to the assault and vandalizing of the main institutions representing the three branches of state power in Brazil, no less than the Congress, the Planalto Palace and the headquarters of the Federal Supreme Court. (more…)
By Graciela Ramirez Cruz on January 11, 2023, from Havana
Jan. 7, International Committee for Peace Justice and Dignity, honoring Ali in Oakland Ca.
Ali, as all of us who had the honor of sharing dreams and militancy used to call her, went to another dimension exactly one year ago tonight. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on January 9, 2023
The author at US out of Venezuela protest. photo: Bill Hackwell
The Los Angeles Times reports that “the audacious gamble by the U.S. government to…restore democracy” suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What this State Department stenographer masquerading as a newspaper considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown US security asset Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president. (more…)
January 10, 2023
Francia Marquez, photo: Bill Hackwell
Colombia’s vice president, Francia Marquez, said today that her security detail discovered an explosive device on a road she frequently travels on, in what she described as a new attempt on her life. (more…)