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


The South African city of Johannesburg is the scene of the Fifteenth BRICS Summit, a group made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which has undoubtedly been gaining prominence and economic weight worldwide.... More


The visit of Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel to African countries and his participation in the summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies is part of the close ties between Cuba and the continent and the rest of the global South.... 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


In an extremely complex context, two Latin American nations went to the polls this Sunday. Ecuador in early general elections and Guatemala in a presidential runoff, which had a first round last June and in which the big surprise was Bernardo Arevalo, of the Seed Movement, who managed to sneak into the appointment of this August 20.... More


At every stage of its proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown little by way of tempering its vengeful impulses. The WikiLeaks publisher, in uncovering the sordid, operational details of a global military power, would always have to pay. Given the 18 charges he faces, 17 fashioned from that most repressive of instruments, the US Espionage Act of 1917, any sentence is bound to be hefty. Were he to be extradited from the United Kingdom to the US, Assange will disappear into a carceral, life-ending dystopia.... More


Nine former Attorneys-General, both State and Federal, have voiced their concern about the treatment of Australian citizen, journalist and publisher Julian Assange saying that enough is enough and his on-going detention must come to an end.... More


Scientists and international organizations have warned about the danger to coral reefs, which are the habitat of a great variety of marine life species, such as fish, crustaceans and mollusks.... More


In a society like Guatemala's, tinged by corruption, political favors, the erosion of conventional parties and endemic economic inequality, elite groups refuse to lose control, hence the question of whether they would let a candidate who would break with continuity emerge in the presidential elections.... More


Guideline 34 of the Economic and Social Policy of the Cuban State until 2026 establishes to promote the development of the payment system and intensify a strategy of financial inclusion, with priority in the bancarization, which enhances a modern infrastructure of electronic payment channels, supported by an effective financial education.... More


With the arrival to the presidency in January 2023 of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ties between Brazil and Cuba, which suffered a setback during the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro, allied to the hostile policy of the United States, were relaunched.... More


Ecuador: Ballot boxes and terror

With many people locked in their homes, erecting barricades and other obstacles, business closures and even suspension of classes in schools, Ecuador advanced towards Sunday's election day, afflicted by a record of violence.... More


Cuba's health authorities are keeping a watchful eye on the increase of cholera cases in other countries in the region to prevent the entry of this disease, which can cause death in a matter of hours if left untreated, into the national territory.... More


The PIT-CNT, the largest trade union central in Uruguay, seeks to hold a referendum to modify the pension reform, approved last April despite the rejection of the majority of the population, which staged protests and three general strikes when the controversial law was being debated in Parliament.... More


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