June 10, 2022
Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel speaking to the People’s Summit for Democracy, photo: Bill Hackwell
Dear Manolo; and all the comrades who are participating in the People’s Summit for Democracy;
I was not wrong when I said that I will not be at the Summit of the Americas but the voice of Cuba certainly will. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on June 9, 2022
the scene 2 blocks from Biden’s exclusive Summit. photo: Bill Hackwell
The Summit of the Americas has begun in Los Angeles and the Tower of Babel that Biden built is already tottering. Since June 6, the civil society forums have been in session and clashes between those who support the hegemonic role of the United States and those who defend the sovereignty of the Latin American peoples have not ceased. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on June 8, 2022
Cuba panel at Peoples Summit, photo: Bill Hackwell
On its first of 3 days, the Peoples Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles opened by surpassing expectations in numbers attending and unity. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 6, 2022 from Havana
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Yesterday June 5th, the world marked International Environment Day, a date to raise awareness among humankind about the care and rescue of our common home, a struggle that Cuba has made a priority for decades. This should be a day where the whole world stops to reflect and take action against the alarming deterioration of the planet but unfortunately, especially in the developed world, it passes with the minimum of official notice. (more…)
By Laura Capote, Leticia Garziglia on June 6, 2022
Ralph Gonsalves
The small island countries of CARICOM have given a demonstration of dignity and sovereignty, maintaining firm positions on the U.S. interference policy against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Here is an Exclusive interview with Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (more…)
Statement by the Revolutionary Government of Cuba on June 6, 2022 – Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The US Government, abusing its privilege of being the host country, decided at a very early stage to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the 9th Summit of the Americas to be held in the city of Los Angeles this month of June. It has refused to attend to the just claims of many governments to change that discriminatory and unacceptable stand. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on June 5, 2022
recent ALBA meeting in Havana, photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Controversy has dogged this June’s United States government organized Summit of the Americas. Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela had already abandoned the OAS, seriously damaging the credibility of the Organization of American States as a trustworthy hemispheric forum for the countries North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on June 5, 2022
March on Biden’s Summit of Exclusion, June 10, 5pm
The United States insists on denying Cuba’s participation in the two most important political events to be held in the region this year: the Summit of the Americas and the People’s Summit for Democracy. (more…)