Edited by Ed Newman on September 6, 2024 from Havana
Journalist Ignacio Ramonet has sent an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden, arguing that he should exclude Cuba from the list of States sponsoring terrorism. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 5, 2024 from Mexico City
Mexico City, photos: Alejandra Garcia
On September 1st, the final stretch of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) government began, marked by his sixth and last Government Report. On that Sunday, the city’s transportation became grid locked in the surroundings of the emblematic Zocalo, as thousands of guests and thousands of supporters accompanied his words, delivered where AMLO himself celebrated his victory in the 2018 presidential elections. (more…)
September 5, 2024
Image: EFE
The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) faction, which supports former Bolivian president Evo Morales (2006-2019), decided to “definitively expel” from the party the current president, Luis Arce (photo), and his vice, David Choquehuanca. (more…)
By Carlos Fazio on September 5, 2024
Drawing Adán Iglesias Toledo
A little more than a month before the US presidential elections, Venezuela is in a state of relative peace and calm, in spite of the destabilizing attempts of the US, which is ultimately responsible for the sabotage carried out on August 30, (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 5, 2024
Rosa Miriam Elizalde speaking at the Conference at the Vietnam-Cuba Seminar – Socialist Press in Transformation.
Only once, that we know of, has the U.S. government publicly admitted that it has been the one boycotting Cuba’s access to the Internet. In November 2022, the Department of Justice recommended to the Federal Communications Commission the denial of a permit for the island to link to the submarine cable that interconnects Caribbean countries with the American continent. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on September 3, 2024
Alberto Prieto, photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto, former Minister of Culture of Cuba, reflected on the need to promote and develop an anti-fascist culture and thought in the face of the advance of fascism in Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world. (more…)
By Natalia Marques on September 3, 2024
Workers on strike at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Photo: UNITE HERE/X)
Over 10,000 hotel workers , organized by hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE, went on strike early Sunday morning across the United States in pursuit of fair wages, better working conditions, and more staff to help. As working people across the United States are increasingly squeezed economically, hotel workers are coming together on the picket line under the slogan “one job should be enough!” (more…)
September 3, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Deputy Cilia Flores, leaving the jet seized by the US. Photo: RedRadioVE
The United States again stole a Venezuelan aircraft, the Dassault Falcon 900EX with license plate T7-ESPRT, this time in the Dominican Republic. The operation, led by the Department of Justice, in its statement on the event reports that the aircraft was transferred to the Southern District of the state of Florida, to the city of Fort Lauderdale. (more…)