By Becca Renk on August 25, 2022
Orla in the hospital with dengue
We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only ten of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room – are tucked in under mosquito nets. Their carers – mainly grandmas, aunts and moms – are slouched in chairs or curled around their patients on the beds. (more…)
This resurrected tactic by the US government to discourage the growing solidarity movement with Cuba is a dangerous development that should have all progressive activists and groups on alert. Earlier this month right-wing Senator Marco Rubio, a hater of Cuba, publicly called for the FBI to investigate Carlos Lazo and his humanitarian aid project Puente de Amor for taking powdered milk and medical supplies to the island. It seems like he got their attention. Here we are posting the statement from the Cuba Solidarity Committee of Puerto Rico followed by the solidarity statement from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) – editorial (more…)
By Narkys Blanco on August 23, 2022
photo: PSUV
The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Deputy Diosdado Cabello, noted this Monday, August 22, that the governments of the world have not commented on the hijacking of the Venezuelan plane in (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on August 23, 2022
We recently published two articles called “Cuba and the Peace Talks between the ELN and the Colombian Government: New Opportunities vs. Old Obstacles,” in which we referred to Cuba’s commitment to peace in Colombia; something that former President Ivan Duque boycotted. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 23, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
On September 26, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal Rural School disappeared in the Mexican city of Iguala, in the Guerrero state, and their loved ones never heard from them again. Eight years later, the controversy remains unsolved despite the families’ endless calls for justice. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 21, 2022, from Havana
photos: Yaimi Ravelo
Silence. Fourteen coffins covered with a Cuban flag rest under the altar of the Virgin of the Forsaken, patron saint of firefighters in Cuba. In the background, two floral tributes of very red roses stand out, among many others, with the signatures of Díaz-Canel and Raul. Matanzas hurt deeply on Friday. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva on August 18, 2022
Chile lithium mine
In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s Copiapó province in the Atacama salt flat. The crater, which has a diameter of more than 100 feet, emerged in one of Chile’s most lucrative regions for copper and lithium extraction. The nearby Candelaria mining complex—80 percent of the property is owned by Canada’s Lundin Mining Corporation and 20 percent is owned by Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation—had to halt its operations in the area. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on August 18, 2022
Gustavo Petro-Francia Márquez
The government of Gustavo Petro-Francia Márquez has started off at a very good pace in its very important task and has already shown firm progress 11 days after taking office. (more…)