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…)
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…)
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…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 28, 2024
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
On March 17, extraordinary events took place in Cuba, which once again received disproportionate coverage in the social networks and some foreign media considering the type of disasters we are experiencing in today’s world. They are “extraordinary in Cuba” because this has not been a country where the forces of law and order walk with long guns in the streets, there are no armored cars to confront demonstrations with strong jets of water, nor are there cases of loss of eyes due to the use of rubber bullets. (more…)
By Becca Renk on March 8, 2024 from Nicaragua
By Randy Alonso Falcón on February 27, 2024 from Havana
Fidel, photo: Roberto Chile
“From Martí I learned ethics”, Fidel would tell us again and again, in permanent confirmation of one of the most expensive essences of his revolutionary thinking and acting. It was the basis on which he erected the moral shield that accompanied him in life; it was the force that earned him the admiration of our people and reserved for him the respect of his adversaries. (more…)