By Soledad Cruz on September 6, 2022
por Cuba; genuine, demonstration of democracy. photo: Bill Hackwell
Those who want to govern in favor of their peoples in Latin America immediately find the greatest obstacles to fulfill their proposed programs, which were the reasons the majority voted in their favor. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on September 6, 2022
Photo: EPA
Among the recent tragedies we have suffered, the early departure of Camilo Guevara March is one more that has left us with such deep sadness. When his father Ernesto Che Guevara knew about the death of his mother Celia de la Serna, he was in the middle of the jungle in Congo. People say he wanted to be alone for a while, walked whistling softly… (more…)
Sept. 5, 2022.
On Monday, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro lamented the outcome of the Chilean plebiscite and affirmed that the constituent process was bound up from the beginning. (more…)
By Marco Teruggi on September 6, 2022,
photo: Pablo Rojas Madariaga
Sunday night saw a resounding triumph for the challengers of a new Constitution that would distance the magna carta from the dictatorial traces. It was a lacerating blow for those who staged the revolts of 2019 and for the brand new government of President Gabriel Boric. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 6, 2022, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is immersed in preparations for its most important civic event in years: the Families Code referendum. On September 25, the island will decide on the approval of this document, which was reviewed and discussed by all communities and institutions in the country beginning back in early February. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on September 4, 2022
2007 Havana, The US protects the terrorist Posada Carriles. photo: Bill Hackwell
“He was in the wrong place, at the wrong time,” assassin Luis Posada Carriles would say with astonishing tranquility to a journalist some time after the criminal act. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on September 4, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Last week, US President Joe Biden extended for one more year the sanctions on Cuba, arguing the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917. This mechanism has been used for the last 60 years to back the countless sanctions that make up the US blockade against Cuba. (more…)
By Tatiana Coll on September 1, 2022
What characterizes us as underdeveloped countries are the queues, popular queues, queues for tortillas, transportation. But only in Cuba are there queues for books. This surprised me since the first time I went there in 1970. When I worked at Juventud Rebelde newspaper and a large bookstore was very close by, the newsroom would often hear the announcement, “the book has just arrived…” (more…)