By Alejandra Garcia on June 6, 2022 from Havana
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Yesterday June 5th, the world marked International Environment Day, a date to raise awareness among humankind about the care and rescue of our common home, a struggle that Cuba has made a priority for decades. This should be a day where the whole world stops to reflect and take action against the alarming deterioration of the planet but unfortunately, especially in the developed world, it passes with the minimum of official notice. (more…)
By Laura Capote, Leticia Garziglia on June 6, 2022
Ralph Gonsalves
The small island countries of CARICOM have given a demonstration of dignity and sovereignty, maintaining firm positions on the U.S. interference policy against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Here is an Exclusive interview with Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (more…)
Statement by the Revolutionary Government of Cuba on June 6, 2022 – Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The US Government, abusing its privilege of being the host country, decided at a very early stage to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the 9th Summit of the Americas to be held in the city of Los Angeles this month of June. It has refused to attend to the just claims of many governments to change that discriminatory and unacceptable stand. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on June 5, 2022
recent ALBA meeting in Havana, photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Controversy has dogged this June’s United States government organized Summit of the Americas. Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela had already abandoned the OAS, seriously damaging the credibility of the Organization of American States as a trustworthy hemispheric forum for the countries North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on June 5, 2022
March on Biden’s Summit of Exclusion, June 10, 5pm
The United States insists on denying Cuba’s participation in the two most important political events to be held in the region this year: the Summit of the Americas and the People’s Summit for Democracy. (more…)
June 1, 2022
photo: Peruvian Presidency
On May 30, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo announced that the executive branch would soon present a bill to eliminate immunity for all high-ranking state officials in order to promote transparency. The head of state made the announcement during the closing ceremony of the Decentralized Council of Ministers in the Loreto region. (more…)
By Diana Block on June 3, 2022
Cuba, Lives, Breathes, Resists. photo: Bill Hackwell
I set off for Havana at the end of April to participate in the 15th International May Day Brigade organized by ICAP (The Institute for Friendship with the Cuban People). Having achieved one of the lowest COVID mortality rates and highest vaccination rates in the world, Cuba had reopened the country to international guests on November 15, 2021. The U.S. had tried and failed to exploit the global disease disaster to bring about regime change, but the intensified embargo has made living conditions worse than ever for the Cuban people. (more…)
By Juan Diego Quesada on June 3, 2022.
photo: Zuma Images
Until recently, Gustavo Petro understood politics as a solitary exercise. In his time as congressman he used his arguments to attack corruption or paramilitarism from the podium. As mayor of Bogota he was criticized by those around him for being reluctant to take the advice of others. Now he has understood that to be the next president of Colombia he needs the help of the rest, but especially that of Francia Márquez, (more…)