By Geraldina Colotti on February 26, 2025.
February 27, 1989, Venezuelans rise up against the austerity measures of the Fourth Republic.
At the UN Human Rights Council, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has denounced the instrumentalization of the issue of human rights as a weapon to reverse the progress of revolutionary democracy. And he recalled that, at the time of the Caracazo, when the human rights of the people protesting against the neoliberal package imposed on the government by the International Monetary Fund were clearly violated, no protest was raised at the headquarters of international organizations. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 27, 2025
Sacha
Francisco López Sacha spent the last days of his life lying in bed meekly awaiting death. He refused to eat, to drink water, to walk, when he learned that he had an illness that would lead to extreme suffering. At the age of 74, he had decided to resign from life. A resignation that became effective last Sunday, February 16th, and has moved the Cuban intelligentsia, because he was perhaps the most unanimously loved and admired of Cuban writers. (more…)
February 26, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Haiti Action Committee denounces the latest white supremacist attack by the Trump Administration directed at Haitians living in the US. The announcement that the US will end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians puts a target on the back of over 500,000 Haitians. It is, quite simply, a plan for ethnic cleansing – and it must be opposed. (more…)
By John Perry on February 25, 2025
USAID a trojan horse in Nicaragua
U.S. President Donald Trump has just closed down USAID after Elon Musk branded it “a criminal organization,” adding “it’s time for it to die.” Is there any truth to Musk’s allegation? (more…)
February 25, 2025
More than 600,000 immigrant children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent or legal guardian since 2019. (more…)
February 22, 2025
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The United States has rejected “dozens of” Cuban passports and has not granted visas that had been processed by Cuban state agencies in recent days, such as for athletes due to arrive for a basketball tournament, the island’s foreign ministry said on Friday. (more…)
Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 24, 2025
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla,
Mr. President:
The right to life is in grave danger. The Charter of the United Nations, international law and multilateralism are being threatened. Economic coercion and political subversion are being imposed as methods of international relations. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 22, 2025
Venezuelans arrive home from Guantanamo Naval Base.
On Thursday, Venezuela announced the arrival of a Conviasa plane with 177 migrants, most of them young men, that were rescued from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. (more…)