By Roger D. Harris on January 23, 2024
Internationalist in Venezuela for the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro and the World Antifascist Festival.
The first thing greeting me as I disembarked from my flight in Caracas was a wanted poster for one Edmundo González Urrutia. The reward was $100,000. Not to be outdone, the US had slapped a $25 million bounty on the head of President Maduro and lesser amounts on other Venezuelan leaders. (more…)
By Aura Torrealba on December 13, 2024
Ricardo Sanchez providing details of the university programs.
The Venezuelan minister for higher education, Ricardo Sánchez, has reported that the Venezuelan university sector is the most robust in the region, comprising 173 higher education institutions in which not only Venezuelan students, but also students from other countries, attend free of charge and receive a high quality education. (more…)
By Karthik Puru on November 21, 2024
June 2023 protest to end the blockade of Cuba in front of the White House. photo: Bill Hackwell
Interview with Vijay Prashad: Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad’s latest work shows how the blockade is a long-term effort to undermine their sovereignty and revolutionary ideals. (more…)
By Giorgio Trucchi on November 14, 2024, from Honduras
Cuban doctors arrive in Honduras during Covid
A serious energy crisis, two hurricanes and an earthquake, all in less than a month, have seriously affected the largest of the Greater Antilles. But the bigger concern for the Cuban people perhaps is the sweeping re-election of Donald Trump in its hostile neighbor to the North. (more…)
October 23, 2024, Kazan Russia
Dear President Vladimir Putin,
Colleagues,
Chinese President Xi Jinping, during the BRICS meeting in Kazan Russia. photo: Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik
First of all, I would like to extend my warm congratulations on the successful opening of this summit, along with my thanks to President Putin and our host Russia for their thoughtful arrangements and warm hospitality. (more…)
By Ignacio Ramonet on October 19, 2024
The appeal of BRICS is also being felt in Europe, where countries such as Serbia aspire to be in BRICS
The 16th BRICS+ Summit takes place from October 22-24 in Kazan, Russia. This summit will be attended by the five newly co-opted countries – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iran and Ethiopia. The new 10-member BRICS+ alliance will define the group’s broad directions for a stronger partnership that is radically transforming global geopolitics. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 22, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell, Our freedom and dignity will never be bought.
In September, and for the fourth consecutive year, U.S. President Joe Biden renewed U.S. sanctions on Cuba under the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA), an archaic 1917 law designed to cut off trade with Germany during World War I and a significant pillar of the blockade. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on August 25, 2024
photos: Bill Hackwell
Commander Fidel Castro Ruz was born in Cuba 98 years ago and is no longer physically among us since November 2016 but he continues to be born and reborn in those who resist and fight on all fronts of battles in these times when we are living a process of enormous changes and great threats. (more…)