By Alejandra Garcia on November 30, 2023
Today world leaders will discuss climate change at COP28, this year’s UN world conference, where the voice of Cuba and the world’s most vulnerable peoples, represented in Group 77 plus China, will be present. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 19, 2023 from Havana
President Diaz Canel receives a keffiyeh from a Palestinian medical student.
In little more than a month, 12,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, including 5,000 children, before the passive gaze of the governments of the world. It is the people of these countries who are protesting in large numbers for an end to the conflict that is leaving Palestine in ruins, in almost non-existent living conditions. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 16, 2023
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez
This week, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla presented at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva for the fourth time the nation’s report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism that evaluates member countries in the field of human rights. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 12, 2023
Javier Milei
Argentina is in the countdown to its presidential elections next Sunday, a position debated between the Peronist Sergio Massa and the ultra-right-wing Javier Milei. In this critical contest the country is living in hours of uncertainty as polls show minimal differences between the candidates. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on November 7, 2023
Biden hosts APEP conference at the White House
Last Friday, Washington hosted the inaugural summit of the US-convened Alliance for Economic Prosperity in the Americas (APEP) to strengthen economic ties to address challenges such as migration, the Israeli-Palestinian war, and expanding trade between the US and the rest of the Americas. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 2, 2023 from Havana
Today, as it happens in the beginning of November every year, the resolution presented by Cuba to call for the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States was overwhelmingly approved Thursday by the General Assembly with 187 votes in favor. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 30, 2023
protestors say no new mining contract. photo: Walter Hurtado/Bloomberg
Panama has woken up once again. For several days now, thousands of its citizens have taken to the streets against a nefarious mining contract that would not only put vast areas of the country in the hands of private companies, with headquarters in the North, but would also cause irreparable environmental damage. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 24, 2023
Migration meeting in Palenque Chiapas, photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Migration is not a new phenomenon. For centuries, the world’s population has moved from one place to another with a common motivation: the search for a better future. However, in recent decades, the numbers have soared dramatically and dangerously, (more…)