By Rick Sterling on April 23, 2022
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book “The Grand Chessboard” was published 25 years ago. His assumptions and strategies for maintaining U.S. global dominance have been hugely influential in US foreign policy. As the conflict in Ukraine evolves, with the potential of escalating into world war, we can see where this policy leads and how crucial it is to re-evaluate. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 24, 2022 from Havana
During these days, Cuba is reliving one of the island’s most important cultural moments: the yearly Havana International Book Fair. Two years and a pandemic later, the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress reopened its doors to the public from all over the country and from other latitudes seeking to celebrate Cuba’s ” Great Book Festivity”, which this year is dedicated to the literature of a fellow country, Mexico. (more…)
By Laura V. Mor on April 23, 2022 from Havana
photo: Syara Salado Massip
Evo Operation Rescue: A Geopolitical Plot of 365 days is a chronicle in which author Alfredo Serrano Mancilla tells us what happened in the year that elapsed from the forced resignation of Evo Morales to the Presidency of the Republic in November 2019 when the coup d’état of Jeanine Añez was unleashed until the return Bolivia in November 2020. (more…)
April 21, 2022
The influence of Álvaro Uribe Vélez in shaping Colombian reality dates back more than 20 years. He has been the personal representation of a transnational project that has not only sought to turn Colombia into a safe enclave of raw materials but a geostrategic one from which to influence the rest of South America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Luis Britto García on April 23, 2022
photo: Luis Britto García
How long will the world’s proven oil reserves last? In 2016, it was estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) that 1.65 trillion barrels remained, which at the annual consumption rate of 35,442,913,090 would give 47 years, of which seven years have already elapsed. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 21, 2022
Joanna Pereira being interviewed by Alejandra Garcia
At the end of April, Cuba will conclude the process of popular discussion of the Family Code, a legal initiative that seeks to be an agreed upon portrait of Cuban society. It came out of necessity, because much has changed in the island’s social panorama since the 1970s, when the current Code came into existence. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on April 21, 2022 from Havana
“ US migration policy is incoherent and differentiated”. Josefina Vidal, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
As a Cuban sometimes you get tired of listening to news about the US because it is an everyday stream of issues mostly related to bad things. We get used to the ups and downs while you are always wondering why do they want to make us suffer so much? (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on April 21, 2022 from Havana
Solidarity activists to join the Cuban people in the Plaza of the Revolution. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Three days of solidarity will mark May Day 2022 in Havana. In Cuba, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic forced cancellation in 2020 and 2021, the awesome May Day march will joyously take place Sunday, May 1. The march theme, Cuba Vive y Trabaja — Cuba Lives and Works — expresses the firm and unconditional decision to continue consolidating “Our Economic-Social Socialist Development Model.” The events are dedicated to Cuba’s historical leader, Fidel Castro Ruz. (more…)