By Yosley Carrero on May 20, 2022
Deisy Francis, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuban journalist Ibis Frade has been waiting for more than two years for a U.S. entry visa to be granted to her by the U.S. embassy in Havana. The 33-year-old, who had been working as a United Nations correspondent for Cuba’s Prensa Latina news agency since November 2017, came to the Caribbean nation for a month-long vacation in December 2019. Yet she has been unable to return for work at the UN headquarters in New York as she has not received any response concerning her visa application. (more…)
By Task Force on the Americas on May 24, 2022
Teri Mattson, photo: Bill Hackwell
While enroute to observe the presidential elections in Colombia, Teri Mattson was denied entry by Colombian authorities and had her passport seized. After arriving at 6:55 am on May 22, she was forced to spend the day and the night at the Bogotá Airport before being deported the following morning and flown out of the country. (more…)
By Orlando Oramas León on May 24, 2022
The XXI Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will take place this week on Friday in Havana according to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its web page. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 24, 2022 from Havana
Puentes de Amor
Of all, Cuba’s health sector is the area hardest hit by the blockade that the United States insists on maintaining against the island. For two years, the country has not been able to start the liver transplant program for children, due to the lack of a key component that Washington refused to sell to the country. But miracles do happen, and every day friends around the world prove to us that we are not alone. (more…)
By Calla Walsh on May 22, 2022
Plaza of the Revolution, May 1, 2022, photo: Bill Hackwell
When I connected to wifi for the first time in five days, a notification appeared on my phone announcing that the US Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 legal decision that makes access to abortion a legal right. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on May 23, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
On June 29, 2021, the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was interviewed by journalist Lucia Duraccio, of the Italian television channel RAI TG1, who asked him following the vote of condemnation by 189 countries of the U.S. blockade against Cuba, which had just happened for the 29th time in the UN General Assembly, why the nearby island was still the enemy and if the dialogue initiated by former President Obama was over for good. (more…)
May 21, 2022
We have just learned that US Latin American solidarity activist Teri Matson, who was traveling to Colombia as an invited election observer for the election there next Sunday, has been detained and will be deported from Colombia tomorrow without cause. The Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights CPDH in Bogota denounces the deportation. – editorial (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges and Bill Hackwell on May 22, 2022
Margot Palacios and Silvana Robles
The IX Summit of the Americas to take place in Los Angeles , June 6-10, continues to generate news in the region and it is not exactly what the Biden Administration was looking for. Friday, Peruvian lawmakers Margot Palacios and Silvana Robles declared their opposition to a summit that would take place without Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. (more…)