By Alejandra Garcia on February 25, 2024 from Havana
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodriguez defending Palestine in the Hague
This week, Cuba once again raised its voice for Palestine, this time from The Hague, in the Netherlands, where the International Court of Justice is holding hearings on the genocide taking place in Gaza. Over 30,000 people make up the list of victims of the Israeli operation in Gaza since October 7, 2023, most of them children and women, and all this has happened before the gaze of the international community, which is just beginning to awaken from its lethargy, and seeks to put a stop to Israel’s brutality. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 20, 2024
Stella Assange calling for her husband’s freedom outside the High Court in London. photo: EPA
Australian journalist Julian Assange is living a decisive week in the United Kingdom as legal efforts are being exhausted to avoid his extradition to the United States, where he could face life imprisonment. The health of the Wikileaks founder, responsible for publishing war crimes perpetuated by Washington in Iraq and Afghanistan, has deteriorated to the extreme. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 15, 2024 from Havana
Today, the 32nd Havana International Book Fair, the island’s biggest festival and the most attended event in Cuba, opened its doors, attracting the gaze of literature lovers from the country and the world. From February 15 to 25, 2024, this Wonder City will welcome domestic and international readers, authors, publishers, librarians, and celebrities who seek to experience the unique identity of this fair, which has no comparison with events of this kind in other latitudes. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 6, 2024
Bukele’s re election celebration
This Sunday, candidate for re-election Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself president of El Salvador with just 30 percent of the votes counted. “This has been an overwhelming victory, in which we have received more than 85% of the votes,” said the president, 42, amid claims of irregularities, violations of democracy, and problems with the vote count. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 4, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The blockade against Cuba is real. It is palpable in the kilometer-long lines of cars that take hours or days in front of the gas stations nationwide, and in the lack of medicines in the national network of pharmacies, the shortage of medical supplies in hospitals, and the obstacles the country faces to purchase food on the international market. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia in Havana on January 30, 2024
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba needs development, even if it seems impossible amid increasingly adverse international conditions. And it needs to develop without trampling on the most vulnerable but also in being consistent with the world around us which is unstable, marked by inflation, and the exponential increase in essential goods. All of this in world of escalating tensions. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 25, 2024
Bolivarian National Armed Forces, photo: Bill Hackwell
The destabilization, invasions, coups, and assassinations in those Latin American countries that are inconvenient for the US hegemony have a common instigator: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Agency’s interventions in Latin America in the past decades are well known. But what has happened in recent days? (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 21, 2024
Galápagos Islands outcry after Ecuador allows US military to use airstrip
History repeats itself. For centuries, the United States has sought ways to intervene in Latin America to strengthen its military presence and dominance in the region whenever a country is in crisis. And it is happening again. The current security crisis in Ecuador is presented as an opportunity for the United States to deepen its military presence in the Andean country. (more…)