By José Luis Granados Ceja on August 9, 2022
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the inauguration of Gustavo Petro as president of Colombia, with leaders pledging to rebuild the long but fraught relationship between the two Caribbean countries. (more…)
By Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin on August 10, 2022
photo: Irene Perez, Cubadebate
By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 that has just been extinguished has been seen around the world. (more…)
August 10, 2022
Former right-wing President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, has landed a job at the Washington-based Wilson Center as a “Distinguished Fellow” and “Global Advisor” for issues including defense of democracy and climate change, despite his atrocious record on human rights and environmental destruction. (more…)
By José Alejandro Rodríguez on August 8, 2022
photo: Ricardo Lopez Heria
The beautiful Matanzas burns of pain before an excessive lightning, whim of the exalted Mother Nature that unleashed in persistent flames the oil that urges us. And Cuba, so promiscuous in sharing sorrows, shudders moved by the tongues of fire, the flesh and the cut dreams of so many children once again. (more…)
By Teresa Melo on August 8, 2022
I will not repeat the news. The journalists and media are there, reporting minute by minute… I don’t think anyone slept, even those of us who are not in Matanzas. The videos of the explosion of the second tank, testimonies of firefighters, photos, bitter crying, fear, fear, fire spread, nearby electrical networks and transformers destroyed, steam, smoke, intense heat… And that red sky… (more…)
By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet on August 7, 2022 from Havana
Men of fire. Photo: Ricardo López Hevia
Getting older has its advantages. Facts are looked at with the old eyes that have seen so much that they have seen almost everything and have weighed or valued with an accumulation of memories and experiences enough to scare away superstitions and save hope in the worst moments. (more…)
By Rafael Montejo Véliz on August 9, 2022
more socialism, photo: Bill Hackwell
There are people, few, a who are already defeated, and it is true that the tragedy caused by the accident at the supertanker base is great and the scenes are Dantesque. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on August 9, 2022 from Cardenas
photo: Ricardo Lopez Hevia – Granma
Today, after several days, I checked what the mainstream media has reported on the accident at Matanzas supertanker base. I was not surprised at all by what I found. I say this because many of us are used to reading articles driven by sensationalism and not by any credible principles of journalism when reporting on Cuba. (more…)