By Alejandra Garcia on December 22, 2022, from Havana
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the FEU conference. photo: Abel Padron Padilla
This Tuesday, the capital hosted one of the most important youth events of the year, the closing of the 10th Congress of the Federation of University Students (FEU), the organization founded by leftist leader Julio Antonio Mella 100 years ago this December. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 13, 2022
Peru is experiencing a new episode of its long history of institutional crisis. Today, a new president occupies the seat in the Government Palace, only 16 months after the country elected the leftist teacher Pedro Castillo, and Peruvians are once again suffering uncertainty about the political future of their Andean nation. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 6, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is a mosaic of religious expressions. Although it is a mostly secular country, there is a mixture of multiple beliefs, inherited from the first inhabitants of the island, the indigenous, then, from the centuries of colonization, from African ancestors, and from Haitian, Arab, Chinese, and other migrants. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 4, 2022, from Havana
Cuba is once again at the center of Washington’s hostilities. Last week, it was news that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) suggested rejecting the installation of an undersea telecommunications cable connecting the two countries, which would help facilitate internet access for Cubans. The justification: The White House fears that this deployment would endanger the national security of the North American country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 28, 2022 from Havana
Calla Walsh, co-chair of the National Network on Cuba, attending the US/Cuba Youth Meeting, observes local elections in Cuba.
Since last Thursday, Cuba has been the venue for an important gathering entitled, Youth Friendship Meeting “Building Our Future Today.” Young people from Cuba and the United States shared, in English and Spanish, thoughts about social justice, free public access to education and health, science (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 22, 2022
Gustavo Petro promised a change, and he is achieving it. One hundred days after his inauguration ceremony in Bogota’s Bolivar Square, the first left-wing president of this Latin American country has managed to implement 50 essential measures to lift Colombians out of endemic poverty and violence. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 17, 2022 from Havana
This Thursday, Cuba’s voice was heard loudly in Europe. Members of the European Parliament (MPEs), based in Brussels, Belgium, along with Belgium-based Cuban representatives, lawmakers, and members of solidarity movements of that continent, stood with the Caribbean island in its call against the inhuman and illegal US blockade. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 15, 2022 from Havana
photo: José M. Correa
Pinar del Rio doesn’t want to remember the early morning of September 27 or the days and nights following the devastating passage of Ian, which reached the west of the island as a powerful Category 3 hurricane. The images that it left behind are devastating. (more…)