By Alejandra Garcia on August 5, 2021 from Havana
Cuban boxer Julio César La Cruz, photo: Roberto Morejon
When dawn broke this morning on the fourteenth day of the Olympic Games, Cuba was in 15th place in the Tokyo medal standings. It is admirable and not fortuitous that the small island of only 11 million people is 15th among the 204 countries attending the world games. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 1, 2021
photo: Abel Rojas Barallobre
US President Joe Biden proved again that his political agenda towards Cuba is very similar to that of his predecessor Donald Trump. On Friday afternoon, the head of the White House received a group of Cuban emigrants, promoters of the change of government in Cuba, to outline the guidelines that his administration should follow towards the Caribbean country in the months to come. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 29, 2021 from Havana
photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Those who encouraged the riots in Cuba on July 11 were left empty-handed. The violent events that took place that day have been forgotten, and now Cuba is trending for more moving reasons. In just two weeks, the island has received thousands of expressions of solidarity and tons of real humanitarian aid destined to help us to face the economic and health crisis in the country. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 25, 2021 from Havana
Santiago de Cuba, photo: Bill Hackwell
On July 26, 1953, a group of young people changed the course of Cuban history forever. Gunshots from the Moncada Barracks, then the second most important military fortress in the country, shook Santiago de Cuba in the early hours of Santa Ana Day, a religious celebration very popular during the years of the Republic. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 22, 3021 from Havana
June 17, Cubans in Pinar del Rio come out in defense of their revolution. photo: Ronald Suarez Rivas
Today the US government announced new sanctions against Cuban officials for alleged human rights violations. This political move proves that, almost eight months after coming to power, President Joe Biden follows Donald Trump’s footsteps in his policy against the island. Nothing has changed so far.
The measures, which are added to the other 243 sanctions applied during the Trump era (2017-2021), were implemented by the U.S. Treasury Department on the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) Álvaro López, and the National Special Brigade of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT). Both institutions that guarantee citizen security on the island.
“Today’s action is for those in connection with the repression of peaceful, pro-democracy protests taking place in Cuba,” Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen cynically justified while alluding to the riots that took place in the country on July 11 that were promoted from Florida.
The White House insists that the protests, which first broke out in the Havana neighborhood of San Antonio de Los Baños and then spread to a few other areas of the Cuban capital, continue even though they only lasted about 12 hours on that day.
In tune, CNN, The New York Times, and other “sacred cows” of the North American press continue to broadcast images of June 11 as if they were recent and still happening so that the world believes Cuba has collapsed and that the “Diaz-Canel dictatorship” has come to an end.
The region’s right-wing media are spreading lies on behalf of the type of freedom and democracy that some people demand for Cuba. “One spectacular falsehood was the publication of images of pro-government demonstrations characterizing them as if they were protests against President Miguel Díaz-Canel,” Spanish researcher Pascual Serrano pointed out.
Sensationalism has been a must for corporate media attack: bloodied people (without it being clear whether they were opponents or citizens attacked for taking to the streets in defense of the government), women holding Cuban flags in full cry without supplying any detail of what she was crying about.
It is no coincidence that the protests began after days of the toxic campaign blasting in social networks. The right-wing saw a unique opportunity after people mobilized with the hashtag #SOSMatanzas, which originally had the sole purpose of supporting and standing in solidarity with the people of that Cuban province heavily affected by the pandemic.
“Although the U.S. insists on saying otherwise, Cuba is at peace and standing firm in the face of hostilities. We are now facing a new episode of sanctions to support lies and add other countries’ governments to the anti-Cuban crusade,” President Miguel Diaz-Canel tweeted this morning after learning of the Treasury Department’s decision.
Biden’s stance towards Cuba continues to be erratic. A few days ago, he promised to evaluate the reopening of the embassy in Cuba and the reestablishment of remittances from the United States, something he had already promised during his electoral campaign one year ago.
Today, the only new development between Washington and Havana is the onslaught against the government and the Cuban people, who are always the ones most harmed.
“If the White House were concerned about the welfare of our people, it would put an end to the blockade with which it tries to suffocate us. It must stop interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs and end the misinformation campaigns with which they seek to justify their aggression against us,” Cuban Foreign Minister (MINREX) Bruno Rodriguez tweeted on Thursday.
The U.S. President has time to stop repeating his nefarious predecessor’s steps by respecting Cuban sovereignty and ceasing to stimulate hatred and resentment towards the island, ideological intolerance, extremism, the use of slander, and media sabotage.
It is time for a regime change, not in Cuba, but in the way Biden looks at the island from the comfort of the Oval Office.
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – English
By Alejandra Garcia on July 18, 2021
Photo: Jeanty Augustin, www.jjaugustin.com
This weekend, Haitian authorities made a revelation that does not come as a surprise to any Latin American country: the plan to assassinate President Jovenel Moise was orchestrated from Miami, Florida. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 6, 2021 from Havana
Hurricane season begins in Cuba. photo: Bill Hackwell
Tropical Storm Elsa is no longer a danger to Cuba. At this hour, only light rain is falling over Havana, caused by the feeder bands of the meteorological phenomenon that is already advancing towards the US, in particular Florida. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 1, 2021
Supporters of Castillo remain in the street. foto: peru libre
One month after holding the run-off election, Peru still has no President-elect. The winning candidate, leftist Pedro Castillo, hasn’t assumed the country’s leadership yet because the Peruvian right-wing insists that widespread election fraud has taken place, although justice authorities say otherwise. (more…)