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Venezuela VP Says Guaidó is the US’s Problem

By Narkys Blanco on October 25, 2022

The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, stated on Monday that the United States is excluding Juan Guaidó from its plans against Venezuela. (more…)

 “In Cuba, Revolution and Culture are Inseparable”

By Thalia Fuentes Puebla on October 23, 2022

Alpidio Alonso Grau, photo: Abel Padrón Padilla

An Interview with Alpidio Alonso Grau, Cuba’s Minister of Culture on the National Day of Culture, 

“Culture has been and is an essential element to understand in depth the meaning of the social project we are building,” assured Cuba’s Minister of Culture, Alpidio Alonso Grau, during an exclusive interview to Cubadebate, on the occasion of the National Culture Day this October 20. (more…)

Military Intervention is Not the Answer to Haiti’s Crisis

By Elson Concepción Pérez on October 24, 2022

image: Haiti Action Committee

History has shown that military interventions, generally against poor countries of the so-called Third World, far from being a solution to alleviate hunger and constitute stable governments, have been the cause of destabilization and mere formulas of colonization and neo colonization. (more…)

Biden Traffics in the Lives and Safety of Thousands of Migrants

By Gustavo A Maranges on October 24, 2022

Venezuelan wait to be registered at the DarienGap. photo: IOM /Gema Cortés

The recent decision to immediately deport all Venezuelans attempting to enter U.S. territory through the Mexican border has fanned the flames of the debate in Latin America and the United States. (more…)

Cuba: Imagine What We Could Have Achieved Without the Blockade

By Alejandra Garcia on October 20, 2022

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez

On November 2 and 3, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), will consider for the 30th time in a row, the need to put an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba more than 60 years ago. (more…)

Leonard Peltier’s 46 Years in Prison: ‘What Else Do you Want?’

October 18, 2022

photo: Bill Hackwell

Leonard Peltier’s name has become a story that reflects other stories. One narrative describes Peltier as America’s longest political prisoner, serving more than 46 years in a federal maximum security prison. In that telling, Peltier has become a humanitarian and a 78-year-old Turtle Mountain elder who has been incarcerated for far too long. (more…)

Cuba’s Battles

By Claudia Espinoza I. on October 19, 2022

photo: Julian Peters

This year Cuba had to face several battles from which -despite everything- it is emerging victorious. (more…)

The Last Thing that Haiti Needs is another Military Intervention

By Vijay Prashad on October 20, 2022

Fritzner Lamour (Haiti), Poste Ravine Pintade, ca. 1980

At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’. To many close observers of the situation unfolding in Haiti, the phrase ‘effective support’ sounded like Geneus was signaling that another military intervention by Western powers was imminent. (more…)

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