March 11, 2025 from Havana
Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil
In a major escalation of its repression against the movement for Palestine, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the US is threatening to deport a Palestinian activist who is a U.S. resident. We republish a petition demanding his release. – Network in Defense of Humanity – Cuba (more…)
March 9, 2025 from Havana
Plaza of Revolution, May 1, 2022. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Compatriots: Today the homeland faces a growing hostility of an increasingly aggressive and arrogant empire, determined to increase a new wave of new neocolonial, fascist and terrorist acts. (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on March 9, 2025 from Caracas
Venezuela will reportedly cease cooperation with the US on the repatriation of migrants. (Presidential Press)
The Venezuelan government will not accept more deportation flights from the US following a recent escalation of coercive measures against the Caribbean country. (more…)
By Helen Yaffe on March 8, 2025
Doctors and nurses from one of Cuba’s Henry Reeve brigades are bid farewell before leaving to Turkey to care for the victims of the earthquake, Feb.10, 2023. Photo: Yamil Lage, AFP
The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. (more…)
March 8, 2025
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel greeting Max Lesnik (R) photo: Prensa Latina
The prominent Cuban journalist Max Lesnik passed away today at the age of 94 in the US city of Miami, where he had lived since 1961. (more…)
March 8, 2025
As the world marks International Women’s Day, the meaning of this celebration has been eroded for Palestinian women in Gaza amid Israel’s prolonged genocidal war on the territory. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 6, 2025
The so-called State of the Union Address is currently a verbal presentation by the President of the United States to a joint session of Congress (House and Senate) in a plenary hall of the Capitol, which is also attended by members of the Supreme Court, senior government officials, the accredited diplomatic corps and a select list of guests. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on March 5, 2025
Homeland or Death
For those of small spirit it was a suicidal phrase. For Cuban revolutionaries it has always been an expression of conviction, of firmness, of an unredeemed willingness to give everything for the beloved homeland. (more…)