Guns again in the United States

A couple of days ago the House of Representatives of the US state of Colorado approved by majority vote a bill to ban the sale and circulation of semi-automatic firearms in that entity, which would be a major step forward in the fight against the proliferation of arsenals.... More


Cuba offered Grenadians scholarships for postgraduate studies to medical graduates. The information, published in the website Now Granada, is part of the close relations between the two countries in the field of education, among other areas.... More


Former President Álvaro Uribe is once again in the spotlight of Colombian society. In recent days it became known that he will be called to trial for alleged bribery and procedural fraud, in a case that goes back more than a decade.... More


Tension to the maximum

Allow me, my friends, to use a rather hackneyed device in certain types of literature and say that after Iran's rocket and drone attack against the Zionist regime of Israel, tension in the Middle East escalated to such high levels that it can be cut with a knife.... More


In the midst of so many economic and social problems that Latin America is going through, it may have seemed curious to many that a meeting on space issues was held in the area.... More


When Latin America is reporting an increase in dengue cases, which have led the Pan American Health Organization to issue nine epidemiological alerts in recent months, Cuba is advancing in the use of a mechanism for the control of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, carrier of the virus of that disease and others such as Zika and Chikungunya... More


While the United States persists in its subversive actions against Cuba and continues to allocate millions of dollars for that purpose, solidarity with the Cuban people, victim of a genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade, is growing and remains active in the U.S. territory itself.... More


Is Chile on the move?

In at least 25 cities and towns in Chile, tens of thousands of people marched the day before to demand that the Tax and Pension Reform bills, trapped between the opposition of the right wing and the passivity of Gabriel Boric's government, be unblocked in the National Congress.... More


We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this onslaught continues.... More


In evidence of the isolation of the Ecuadorian government in ordering the brutal assault with long arms on the Mexican embassy in Quito, the traditionally questioned OAS approved a resolution condemning the invasion.... More


It has just been five years since the proclamation by the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba of the current Constitution, the result of a long process of study, analysis and discussion, which gave life to a document that responds to its time, to the current political, economic and social reality of the country.... More


The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez visited the Guantanamo municipality of Baracoa, as part of his tours of the country's territories, with the aim of evaluating the control of the commitments made in different spheres during 2023 and boosting the economy.... More


The total peace policy developed by the government of President Gustavo Petro in Colombia has gone through many challenges and tensions in recent months; however, the process is alive and moving forward in the South American nation.... More


Cuba urged CELAC, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, to adopt a firm and united position in the face of what it described as unacceptable events in Quito.... More


What Are U.S. Assurances Worth?

In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the sentient computer HAL becomes unreliable and eventually homicidal. The cause of this is a contradiction in HAL’s programming. While programmed to act on and dispense information in a straightforward and accurate fashion, HAL is simultaneously programmed to lie about the true nature of his mission. As his human supervisor puts it in the movie’s sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, HAL “was told to lie by people who find it very easy to lie.” Those people were the one’s running the U.S. government. ... More


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