By Ana Hurtado on April 5, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The past few days the Youth Congress has been held in the capital of all Cubans. Many young people gathered to discuss, propose, talk and look to the future of a Cuba that continues to live a silent war. A Cuba that is seeing how the Empire wants to take away from it the most precious thing it has, the clay to mold any possible horizon: its youth. (more…)
By Haiti Action Committee on April 6, 2024
April 6, Dr. Maryse Narcisse leader of Fanmi Lavalas, speaking from Haiti at an event organized by the Haiti Action Committee in Oakland CA.
The immediate crisis in Haiti goes back to the Feb. 29, 2004, coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the imposition of occupation forces, first by the US, France and Canada, then by a larger UN force, dubbed MINUSTAH, which, while overseeing the police, participated in several documented massacres, and introduced cholera in 2010. (more…)
April 5, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
In the wake of the US’ deliberate starvation of the Cuban people through sanctions, solidarity activists with the People’s Forum, a New York-based political education space, has organized a massive campaign to send 800 tons of wheat flour to the island. (more…)
April 4, 2024
Associated Press (AP) interview with Johana Tablada, Cuban Deputy Director General for the United States at MINREX by reporter Andrea Rodriguez. (more…)
By Alfred de Zayas and John Perry on April 3, 2024
2018, armed right-wing thugs seeking the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government burn down Radio Ya. Photo: Tortilla con Sal.
When the United Nations sets up a “commission of inquiry,” it can result in a powerful analysis of violations of human rights law, such as the one appointed in 2021 to examine Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its Apartheid practices. But other commissions can become political platforms aimed at demonizing a particular government by crafting narratives that give the semblance of objectivity, while suppressing all evidence that contradicts the prevailing geopolitical consensus. (more…)
By Raúl Kollmann on April 3, 2024
Gen. Laura Richardson, photo: Pg 12
The head of the U.S. Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, will land this Tuesday in Buenos Aires. The visit is usual. She arrived in the country in 2022 and met with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; in 2023, with the Minister of Defense, Jorge Taiana. This time, the main host will be the Chief of Cabinet, Nicolás Posse, to whom President Javier Milei entrusted the new carnal relations of the government with the United States. (more…)
From the Network in Defense of Humanity on April 3, 2024
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, counts among its enormous achievements to be the country that has held the most democratic elections in all of Latin America and the Caribbean, whose transparency has not been able to be refuted. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano, April 2, 2024.
Alex Saab
Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, was acquitted of all charges by Florida Judge Robert Scola. The sentence, reported by the media, followed the pardon signed by U.S. President Joseph Biden on December 15, 2023. On December 20, Saab was released after a prisoner exchange with the United States. (more…)