By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 3, 2022
It is a dilemma for Cubans to make ends meet. Wages are not enough to face the very high prices that the lack of offers, real inflation and speculation bequeath to us. (more…)
By Daniel Kovalik on Jun 28, 2022
all the land of the US was stolen, photo: Bill Hackwell
On June 23, 2022, an organization funded by the US Congress, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe – also known as the Helsinki Commission – held a virtual conference calling for the “decolonizing of Russia.”
This begs the question of why they are not seeking the decolonization of the United States. (more…)
By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee, on June 30, 2022
mass protest by garment workers in Port au Prince in February wins 54% wage increase.
On May 20th, The New York Times published a meticulously documented series entitled, “The Ransom,” detailing the devastating impact of the so-called “Independence Tax” enforced by France in 1825 on the world’s first Black republic. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 30, 2022 from Havana
Cuban President Diaz Canel visits power plant in Mayabeque province
Since early 2021, Cuba has been suffering more frequent blackouts amid government efforts to repair the country’s thermoelectric power plants. Power cuts typically last three, four, and up to eight hours and the worst may not be over as we are entering the hottest time of the year when energy demands are at their highest. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 24, 2022
Haiti, photo: Juvenal Balán
Haiti was the first free nation in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first nation in the modern world emerging from a slave revolt, and the second most long-standing republic in the Western Hemisphere. The Haitian people overthrew the French colonialists in 1804, abolished slavery, and declared independence. (more…)
By Álvaro García Linera on June 30, 2022
Álvaro García Linera photo: Octavio Nava
Certainly, what happened in Bolivia presents a certain degree of exceptionality. They could not win electorally and, therefore, resorted to violence. However, this kind of right-wing comeback can also occur in other ways in other parts of the continent and the world. Police-military coups are not the only way in which the right wing can regain power. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 30, 2022
US Embassy in Havana, photo: Minrex
Olga Lidia was very hesitant at first, when she was proposed to reach the United States irregularly through Central America. At her age, she believed she was not physically fit to undertake a journey that would take her through countries, jungles, rivers and put her life in the hands of several coyotes. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on June 29, 2020
participants of the Peoples Summit in LA protest against NATO in early June. photo: Bill Hackwell
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) concludes today its summit in Madrid and is the opposite of the image of unity, cohesion and martial spirit spread by the imperialist war propaganda, omnipresent and uniformed to the millimeter, in the hegemonic media of the “West”. Something similar to their boomerang “sanctions” against Russia. (more…)