By Alejandra Garcia on April 18, 2023 from Havana
photo: Ismael Batista Ramírez
These days Cuba is facing a new fuel supply crisis that affects the national transportation system, both for private and public vehicles. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 16, 2023 from Havana
Fidel announces the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution.
Cubans who lived through the first years of the Revolution, remember April 16, 1961 as if it were yesterday. On that day, the corner of 23rd and 12th streets, in the capital’s Vedado district, was filled with thousands of people, combatants of the 148th battalion of the National Revolutionary Militias, guerrillas, and leaders of the new-born social process. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 10, 2023
Maria Luisa Duarte, photo: Wikicommons
On April 30, Paraguay will go to the polls to elect the country’s new president in a process marked by a lack of debate and the absence of urgent proposals such as free access to education, more rights for Indigenous people, and the right to their land for example. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 9, 2023 from Havana
Rescuer at the Antonio Guiteras CTE Photo: Raúl Navarro González
The eyes and thoughts of Cuba have been on Matanzas since April 7, when a chimney tower of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric power plant partially collapsed, leaving four people trapped in the rubble. Two of them did not make it out alive. (more…)
By Juan José Olivares on April 7, 2023 from Mexico City
La Colmenita performs at the UN in 2011, photos: Bill Hackwell
“Children should meet once a week to see who they can do some good for.” This phrase of Cuba’s José Martí is recalled to La Jornada by Carlos Alberto Tin Cremata, director and dynamic founder of La Colmenita, Cuba’s national children theater company; (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 4, 2023
Today Cuba won an important legal victory against a vulture fund that sought to take advantage of the Caribbean island. The High Court of England and Wales of London ruled that the vulture fund CRF I is not a creditor of the Cuban State, (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 30, 2023
Guillermo Lasso
Ecuador is on the way to an impeachment trial against its neo liberal president, Guillermo Lasso. This Wednesday, the Constitutional Court listened to the voice of parliamentarians, workers, Indigenous people, and many other citizens of Ecuador and admitted, in part, the demand for an impeachment trial of the banker turned president, Lasso, for the alleged crime of embezzlement. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 27, 2023 in Havana
Yesterday Cuba lived a historic day during the national elections to vote for the new members of the tenth legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, the highest legislative power in the country. (more…)