July 5, 2022
Alex Saab
Dear President Nicolas Maduro and beloved people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. I would like to send you my greetings on the occasion of our Independence Day.
Our country is moving steadily towards economic growth, stability and national reconciliation despite the sanctions and the inhumane blockade imposed by the United States. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on July 5, 2022
Cuba offers safe tourism that is not always reflected in the world’s media. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Go to the travel section of any major newspaper, El País, for example, and you will be able to discover the “Caribbean beaches, gastronomy and heritage” of the Yucatan. The “most musical Puerto Rico”. The “cultural and ethnic hotbed” of Trebisonda, Turkey. The “eight reasons why Chicago deserves a trip”, among them to see “the most curious jail”, (more…)
By Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos on July 6, 2022
The authors at a clinic in Palpite in Cuba. Photo: Odalys Miranda
Palpite, Cuba, is just a few miles away from Playa Girón, along the Bay of Pigs, where the United States attempted to overthrow the Cuban Revolution in 1961. Down a modest street in a small building with a Cuban flag and a large picture of Fidel Castro near the front door, Dr. Dayamis Gómez La Rosa sees patients from 8 am to 5 pm. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia, on July 5, 2022, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
A recent report from Miami is assuring that there will be rebellion in Cuba, sooner or later. “The possibility of one or several rebellions of considerable magnitude is extremely high in the short term,” the Cuban Observatory of Conflicts (OCC, in Spanish) stated in a report published Tuesday. But they seem to be talking about a different country. Cuba is at peace. (more…)
July 5, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, made an interesting comment on July 4, calling for the Statue of Liberty to be taken down if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is not acquitted of all charges by the United States. (more…)
By Carlos Noriega on July 4, 2022
Pedro Castillo
The crisis in Pedro Castillo’s government is worsening. Less than a month before the rural teacher and trade unionist who came to power as candidate of the left completes his first year in the presidency, the right wing, which from the first day of the government has bet on the coup, accelerates its plans to remove him from office and assault the power from the Congress it controls. (more…)
By Javier Tolcachier on July 3, 2022
photo: Ana Gabriela Soria Morales
After 18 days of mobilizations throughout Ecuador, which had their final epicenter in Quito, the indigenous organizations signed an agreement with the national government, bringing to an end what they called the “first stage” of the strike. (more…)
Edited by Jorge Ruiz Miyares on June 25, 2022
Dr. Yamila González Ferrer
At the 22nd Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) held this past Thursday, Cuban candidate Dr. Yamila González Ferrer was elected by 143 votes as a member of the instrument’s Supervisory Committee for a three-year term. (more…)