Five weeks of protests in Panama

With new street closures and a 24-hour national strike, the fifth week of intense protests began in Panama in rejection of Law 406, which gave the green light to a mining contract between the government of President Laurentino Cortizo and Minera Panama, considered detrimental to national sovereignty.... More

New measures in Brazil in favor of the Black population

In the last few hours and in the context of Brazil's commemoration of Black Consciousness Day, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a series of measures in favor of Afro-Brazilians, who although they make up 56% of the population of the South American country are subject to racial discrimination.... More

Speech by Fernando Gonzalez at Tribunal against the Blockade

Fernando González Llort, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power and president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), spoke on November 17, at the final session of the International Tribunal against the Blockade of the United States, which took place at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.... More

Arms open in Cuba to nationals living abroad

The Fourth Conference on the Nation and Emigration will go down in history for having achieved such an event after almost two decades, and for coining the concept of emigrants as Cubans who travel and return, settle in other latitudes and do not abandon their love for their homeland.... More

Javier Milei elected new president of Argentina

A period of uncertainty begins in Argentina. The far-right Javier Milei, of the La Libertad Avanza Party, will be the new president of the country for the next four years, after being elected this Sunday in the second round of the general elections.... More

For a broad and frank dialogue

Some 400 Cubans living abroad have gathered in Havana to continue advancing closer and more constructive ties with the land where they were born, which they respect and carry in their hearts.... More

Right-wing and ultra-conservative options for power in Spain are diluted

Spain cleared the danger of a leadership made up of the right-wing Popular Party associated with no less than the ultra-conservative Vox, when Socialist Pedro Sanchez won a majority in the Congress of Deputies and was sworn in as president of the government.... More

Don’t Let Biden and Blinken Get Away With Aiding a Second Nakba

U.S. support for Israel’s attacks on Al-Shifa and the genocide in Gaza is a violation of international humanitarian law.... More

A new recognition for Cuba

The Executive Board of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is made up of 58 nations, and for the period 2023-2027 Cuba will be one of them, following the broad support received in that regard in Paris at the forty-second General Conference of that UN agency.... More

Competition between great powers is not good

After straining the relationship in recent times, the government headed by Democrat Joseph Biden is trying to present itself as the appeaser of the ties between the United States and China.... More

Making visible the damage caused by the U.S. blockade against Cuba

Barely 15 days have passed since the overwhelming condemnation at the UN of the US blockade against Cuba, and the inhuman and genocidal measure continues to be denounced by the international community for its negative effects on the daily life of Cubans and on the socio-economic progress of the Caribbean nation.... More

Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the presentation of Cuba's National Report to the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

I bring from Cuba a message of solidarity and support to the Palestinian people. The indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population and United Nations workers; the bombing of hospitals, ambulances and schools and the massive destruction of homes and vital infrastructure, constitute collective punishment and grave violations of International Humanitarian Law.... More

Cuba willing to continue talks on migration issues

Talks between the United States and Cuba on migration issues continued their course in Havana, a meeting in which the Antillean government reaffirmed its willingness to continue them, given their usefulness and above all to guarantee an orderly and safe flow of this type.... More

Threat of possible U.S. government shutdown is reduced

In recent hours, the threat of a possible U.S. government shutdown due to lack of funds has been reduced. Finally the House of Representatives, with the support of the Democratic caucus, approved a proposal by the Republican leader of the House, Mike Johnson, but still needs the approval of the Senate and the presidential signature.... More

Cuba submits to new Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights

The current Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva covers 14 nations, including Cuba, which actively participates in this mechanism established by that body to address citizens' prerogatives in all countries, on the basis of equality and without distinction.... More

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