Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, before the National Assembly of the Republic of Angola, on August 21, 2023, "Year 65 of the Revolution."... More


Sancti Spíritus is getting ready to celebrate 510 years of its foundation in central Cuba and recalls today the discovery in the Serafín Sánchez Park of the Hermitage of Santo Cristo de la Veracruz and the Convent of San Francisco, works of XVII century.... More


They came after Julian because he exposed the more than 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians; because he exposed the torture and abuse of some 800 men and boys, aged between 14 and 89, at Guantánamo... More


Last weekend, Antony Blinken launched a full-throated denunciation of Julian Assange, whom the Biden administration is seeking to extradite and prosecute for exposing US-led war crimes. The US secretary of state chose to make his first substantive comments on the WikiLeaks publisher, standing alongside Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane.... More


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s hopes of avoiding extradition to the United States, where he’s charged with espionage and computer misuse offences, have taken a blow.... More


Speech delivered by the President of the Republic at the ceremony for the 70th Anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks... More


Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing of the First Ordinary Period of Sessions of the X Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power, at the Convention Palace, on July 22, 2023, "Year 65 of the Revolution."... More


We can almost imagine the turmoil of a day like today, 60 years ago, on the eve of what was then recognized as the national assembly of constitution of the Union of Journalists of Cuba.... More


The persecution of Julian Assange, along with the climate of fear, wholesale government surveillance and use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers, has emasculated investigative journalism.... More


The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) commemorated this week in Trinidad and Tobago its half-century of existence with the 45th meeting of heads of state and government of the bloc, who agreed on the need and importance of deepening the integration achieved to jointly overcome complex common challenges.... More


A lifesize bronze statue of him appeared in Parliament Square over the weekend but the real Julian Assange could very shortly be taken, handcuffed and protesting, from Belmarsh prison in London and flown off to a high security jail in the US.... More


Assange is facing extradition to the United States from the U.K., where he is currently in Belmarsh prison in south London, over charges related to dissemination of material leaked by Chelsea Manning and published by WikiLeaks and a coalition of five newspapers through 2010 and 2011. ... More


The G-7 Summit

The G-7 summit began last Thursday in Hiroshima, with the aim of strengthening diplomatic alliances around the "rule of law" and "territorial integrity", in the context of the growing global polarization over the hybrid war waged by the U.S. against Russia on the territory of Ukraine.... More


One hundred and twenty-one years ago, the intentions of the United States towards Cuba became clear when it proclaimed, on May 20, 1902, a mediatized republic that made a mockery of the national independence sentiment, since what was born was a neo-colony of the incipient empire of the revolted and brutal North that despises us.... More


Among the many memorable trips of his life, Colonel Ho Van A was especially impressed by the one that took the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, to the line of fire in South Vietnam.... More


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