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The Blockade of Cuba is a Grudge of the Cold War that will not Die

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…)

Cuba and the Return of the “Tycoon”

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…)

Speech by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China at the 16th BRICS Summit

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…)

BRICS, the Global South and the New World Geopolitics

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…)

U.S. Imposes Another Year of Blockade on Cuba

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…)

Fidel is Born Each Day and with him Humanity is Reborn

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…)

Between Goals and the Cups

By Tubal Páez Hernández on July 15, 2024

Artwork by Aristides Hernandez (Ares)

The Copa America and the Euro Cup are coming to an end and deserve a reflection, even if this is just a grain of sand in a wave that has moved multitudes on Planet Soccer. There is a new cartoon by the famed Cuban cartoonist Aristides Hernandez Guerrero (Ares), which shows a man with a newspaper in hand, and he lifts with his fingers the lines of text to find what is behind. (more…)

Venezuela VP Delcy Rodríguez Injured while Assessing Damage from Hurricane Beryl

July 3, 2024

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez

Venezuela’s Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, suffered minor injuries in an accident on Tuesday afternoon, while she was deployed to Cumanacoa, Sucre state, attending to families affected by hurricane Beryl. President Nicolás Maduro announced the news, highlighting that Rodríguez was working with the community when the incident occurred. (more…)

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