By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 7, 2024
Hurricane Rafael
The word everyone mentions now in Cuba is “hurricane”. Eleven have swept through the Caribbean in the current hurricane season and two made landfall in Cuba with catastrophic effects. At the end of October, Hurricane Oscar caused eight deaths, more than 12,000 homes affected, hundreds of thousands of people without electricity and roads destroyed by a trail of floods, rains and landslides never seen before in an area of historic droughts in the eastern part of the island. (more…)
November 7, 2024 – On Wednesday night, Venezuelan President Maduro expressed his solidarity with the Cuban people as Rafael, a Category 3 hurricane, made landfall with winds reaching up to 175 kilometers per hour. (more…)
November 7, 2024
News coming out of Cuba is spotty this morning as the second hurricane in a week has pounded the island, once again knocking out the compromised national electric grid of the blockaded country.
Ed Newman from Radio Havana Cuba has reported that Hurricane Rafael, which followed a trajectory that passed between Pinar del Rio and Artemisa in the western part of the country, left the island last night at 8pm leaving behind significant damage but at this time there are no reports of any deaths. (more…)
By Jose Luis Granados Ceja on November 5, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during his weekly television program
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned that whatever the outcome of Tuesday’s US presidential election, Washington will have to directly negotiate with a “revolutionary government” in Caracas. (more…)
By Zoe Alexandra on November 4, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
As the people of the United States head to the polls, people across the world are left to wonder how a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris victory will impact their countries, given the global hegemon’s central role in geopolitics. This is especially true in the socialist Republic of Cuba, which for over 65 years, has faced a comprehensive economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the US government and maintained continuously by different Democratic and Republican administrations. (more…)
By Raul Antonio Capote on November 4, 2024 from Havana
Regardless of the electoral outcome, Cuba will remain a thorn in the side of those who really rule in the United States. (more…)
By Gloria La Riva from Matanzas, Cuba on November 4, 2024
Left to right, Dariel Torrens Aldama, electrical system; Luis Dueña Cordero, electrical system; Reinol Hernández Bejerano, head of control block; Jasel González, boiler control; standing, Javier Quiroz Pérez, head of plant operations. photo: Gloria La Riva.
“There is really a willingness, a true dedication of the workers. Every time we call them, the response is total. We have a consciousness that a problem cannot wait. It cannot wait. It is a matter of security that we must work day and night without stopping until we return the plant to power.” Ruben Campos Olmos, General Director of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, spoke about electrical workers in his plant and across Cuba, who worked night and day to restore power to Cuba after the country was plunged into darkness recently. (more…)
November 3, 2024
photo: PL
As part of the Silk Road and Belt initiative, the China Development Bank earmarked $160 billion in investment to finance more than 250 projects to promote economic and social development in Latin America. (more…)