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…)
By Itzamna Ollantay on March 28, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba, with its nearly 11 million inhabitants, distributed in more than 109,000 km² of territory, surrounded by sea, besieged and economically blockaded by the U.S. State, has a diametrically different fate than its island neighbor Haiti. (more…)
By Bhaskar Sunkara
photo: Bill Hackwell
On 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in force. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 28, 2024
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
On March 17, extraordinary events took place in Cuba, which once again received disproportionate coverage in the social networks and some foreign media considering the type of disasters we are experiencing in today’s world. They are “extraordinary in Cuba” because this has not been a country where the forces of law and order walk with long guns in the streets, there are no armored cars to confront demonstrations with strong jets of water, nor are there cases of loss of eyes due to the use of rubber bullets. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on March 24, 2024 from Buenos Aires
30,000 Alive in Truth! photo: Bill Hackwell
Hundreds of thousands are still in the streets here that lead to the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential palace. Since 2002 March 24, has been officially recognized and referred to as the National Day of Memory marking the beginning of the 1976 military coup that disappeared, tortured and murdered at least 30,000 people. (more…)