Cuba: Havana’s Electricity System Fully Restored

By Laura Mor on October 22, 2024 from Havana

Havana’s main water pumping and purifying facility. photo: Bill Hackwell

Empresa Eléctrica UNE reported through its usual Telegram channel the reestablishment of the electric system in the Cuban capital, after a new total nationwide disconnection suffered yesterday. (more…)

US Blockade of Cuba Causes Electricity System to Collapse due to lack of Stable Fuel Supply

October 21, 2024 from Havana

photo: office of the Presidency

On Sunday Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel pointed directly at  the blockade policy of the United States government as the fundamental cause of the national collapse of the National Electric Power System (SEN) over the past few days. (more…)

Bill Camp Presenté! Hundreds at His Life Celebration for Labor and Cuba Solidarity

By Mark Friedman on October 18, 2024 from Sacramento CA.

Solidarity among workers, Bill Camp speaking at a CTC meeting in Cuba 2018.

They came from the labor unions, Cuba solidarity committees, human rights, Palestinian and Arab-American struggles, and the Democratic Party to celebrate the life of Bill Camp. Camp was the Executive Secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council from 1999 to 2014, and an icon of the labor movement here. (more…)

Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua at FAO Summit, with an Eye on Palestine

By Geraldina Colotti on October 16, 2024.

The summit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) opened in Rome, in the midst of the conflict that is spreading to the Middle East and which forces to confront the relationship between capitalist exploitation, imperialist wars and food security. One year after the genocide perpetrated by the Zionist regime, which shows no signs of abating, the figures from Palestine published by FAO indicate the inconsistency of “humanitarian” intervention without political action against colonial oppression. (more…)

Cuba Under Intensified US Sanctions Confronts Its Greatest Challenge: the Continuity of Obama-Trump-Biden Policy

By Roger D. Harris on October 19, 2024

Photo: Cristian L. Ricardo – Public Domain

“The majority of Cubans support Castro…every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”

Lester D. Mallory, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, 1960. (more…)

Cuba: Power Outages Prolonged Due to Delays in Energy Recovery

October 19, 2024

Due to the effects of the blockade, 13 of the 15 thermal units are out of the maintenance cycle. Photo: Omara García Mederos, Granma

Today, Cuba once again experienced a total power outage after the recovery process of the National Electric System (SEN), initiated the day before following a blackout caused by a failure at a thermoelectric plant, failed. The Caribbean nation is unable to purchase or modernize its electrical machinery due to the draconian, unilateral  blockade of the US. (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…)

The People of Ecuador Speak Out: Government is Responsible for Energy Crisis!

By Alejandra Garcia on October 17, 2024

Severe blackouts hit Ecuador, photo: Bloomberg

The massive power cuts in Ecuador continue to cause havoc and threaten to become more serious each time. The country subsists between several parallel crises, but the electricity breakdown is the one that concentrates the discomfort of the citizens and, also, of the government of President Daniel Noboa, a U.S born right-wing neo liberal corporate businessman who is giving away the country’s resources while the people sit in the dark. (more…)

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