By William Gomez Garcia on April 11, 2024
the 2002 coup in Venezuela failed because of the people. photo: Bill Hackwell
Today we are facing a new date of April 11, 12, 13 and 14 that reminds us of April 2002, where it seems that no one learned from that lesson. Despite the fact that 22 years have passed since the coup d’état when the opposition, led by Pedro Carmona Estanga, briefly removed Commander Hugo Chávez from the government. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 11, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Contrary to the inertia of the news that tells of Cubans leaving, they have not left their family homes or their land; they resisted the promise of no more queues or blackouts and the exodus to any other shore of the Atlantic. (more…)
By Qamar Taleb on April 9, 2024
Illustration by Mahdi Rtail for Al Mayadeen
As there is a growing trend among the Left to sway away from openly supporting Resistance groups, leftists need to pause and ask themselves what the figures they cherish would do. (more…)
By Luis Alberto Portuondo on April 7,2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
On April 7, 1930, the heroine of daily battles for the homeland and its women was born in Santiago de Cuba. The consecration of “all her life to fight for women” which, in short, is the same as thinking and building a fairer country, summarizes what Vilma Espín Guillois was. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on April 7, 2024
Ecuadorian police unit prepare to assault the Mexican Embassy in Quito
This Friday, the world witnessed a historic event in Latin America. Ecuadorian police officers stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito in search of Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador during the administration of Rafael Correa (2007-2017). Hours before this violation of international law was committed, (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on April 5, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The past few days the Youth Congress has been held in the capital of all Cubans. Many young people gathered to discuss, propose, talk and look to the future of a Cuba that continues to live a silent war. A Cuba that is seeing how the Empire wants to take away from it the most precious thing it has, the clay to mold any possible horizon: its youth. (more…)
April 5, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the wake of the US’ deliberate starvation of the Cuban people through sanctions, solidarity activists with the People’s Forum, a New York-based political education space, has organized a massive campaign to send 800 tons of wheat flour to the island. (more…)
By William LeoGrande on April 2, 2024
The US has a history of harboring anti Cuba terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles. photo: Bill Hackwell
Trying to make sense of U.S. policy toward Cuba is like trying to make sense of a play in the theater of the absurd. The rationales offered by the policy’s defenders make no sense, and when they try to explain, they sound like characters in an Ionesco play. Recent legislative proposals from Cuban American members of the House of Representatives are prime examples. (more…)