By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 24, 2025
Pope Francis
I had the privilege of accompanying the papal flight to Cuba and the United States in September 2015. As the only journalist from the country being visited, I was granted the first question at the traditional press conference on board the plane. It was there, in mid-flight between Santiago de Cuba and Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, that for the first time a pope called the blockade by its name, without resorting to the euphemism “embargo,” breaking decades of silence from the local curia. “My wish is that relations between Cuba and the United States come to a successful conclusion,” Francis added at the time. (more…)
By Mauro Ramos on April 23, 2025
Marco Rubio with Fritz Alphonse Jean, new president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (CPT). Photo: Wikimedia Commons
“While claiming to support the Haitian people, the United Stateshas significantly cut foreign aid and continued to deport Haitian immigrants under the pretext of national priorities, just when Haiti urgently needs support,” Geng Shuang, China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), said on Monday, April 21, at the Security Council. (more…)
April 22, 2025
Argentina’s President Javier Milei. Photo: Manu Fernandez/AP
The agreement with the IMF requires deeper cuts in the energy sector, which would lead to the reclassification of more than 3.2 million middle-income users and place them in the high-income category (N1), as part of the intensification of spending cuts in the energy sector. (more…)
April 22, 2025
Jose Daniel Ferrer: god, country and liberty
On April 9, in a telematic hearing before the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, counterrevolutionary figures Rosa María Payá and José Daniel Ferrer—financed and promoted by the US government—demanded new economic sanctions against Cuba, (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on April 21, 2025
Pope Francis
“No one can serve two masters; for he will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.” You cannot follow both the God of heaven and the god of money (Mammon, according to Canaanite religious tradition), that is, profit, gain, and wealth. This is what the New Testament prescribes (Mt 6:24-34). (more…)
April 20, 2025
entrance to CIA headquarters
A new report from the US National Intelligence Council categorically denies any connection between Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela and the now-defunct criminal group known as the Tren de Aragua (TDA). (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on April 19, 2025 from Havana
When the details of President Donald Trump’s policy regarding the money spent on subverting order in countries considered enemies of the US became known, panic spread among the counterrevolution. (more…)
April 19, 2025
Luisa Gonzalez declares fraud in Ecuador election
Three days after the second round of elections, the presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution movement, Luisa González, reappeared to denounce the discovery of new evidence of irregularities in the counting of votes in this last election. (more…)