By Medea Benjamin on June 1, 2021
Waiting in line for food in Cuba. Photo: UPI.com
Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban-American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo created a group called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, to unite Cuban Americans who want to lift the searing U.S. blockade that is immiserating their loved ones on the island. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 31, 2021, from Havana
Photo: Alejandro Azcuy
On Monday, Swiss-based construction materials multinational LafargeHolcim settled a lawsuit seeking compensation for the use of its properties, nationalized by the Cuban government in the 1960s. (more…)
By Ernesto Estévez Rams on May 30, 2021
I have read a Latin American Studies Association 2021 (LASA) statement that singles out Cuba on the basis of a certain “concern” about “The treatment of academics, intellectuals and artists in Cuba”. (more…)
La Jornada Editorial on May 29, 2021
Photo: Bill Hackwell
In the midst of an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections, the illegal blockade imposed against Cuba by Washington and maintained over the past more than 60 years has become the best ally of the coronavirus in Cuba. (more…)
By William M. LeoGrande on May 27, 2021
Photo: Bill Hackwell
While President Joe Biden dithers about when or whether to keep his campaign promise to roll back Donald Trump’s economic sanctions on Cuba, people on the island are going hungry. Cuba imports 70 percent of its food and its foreign exchange earnings have plummeted due to the cut-off of remittances by Trump and the closure of the tourism industry by COVID-19. (more…)
May 25, 2021
Cristiana Chamorro
Cristiana Chamorro, former director of Nicaragua’s Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation for Reconciliation and Democracy, was accused of money laundering in an investigation led by the Ministry of the Interior (MIGOB) and the Nicaraguan Government Prosecutor’s Office. (more…)
By Nils Castroon May 27, 2021
The heterogeneous migratory flow entering Panama through the border with Colombia is continuing and growing. Despite the harshness and lethality of the trails that penetrate Panamanian territory through the jungle, it is foreseeable that the size, morbidity, harmful consequences and costs of attention to this human drama will continue to increase. (more…)
By Pablo Nariño on May 27, 2021
Photo: Colombia Informa
The death throes of the Colombian regime can be heard, its stridency is projected in the high levels of repression, and in the brutal exhibition of State crimes, many of them being witnessed by millions of people around the planet. (more…)