The deadline for Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to the United States looms, as British judges will decide his case on February 21.  Meanwhile, the American demand that Wikileaks publisher Assange stand trial in Virginia on trumped-up charges is what has kept this journalist locked up in Britain’s maximum security Belmarsh jail for four years, and sequestered for refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for seven years before that... More


With more than 7,000 murders, Ecuador ended 2023 as the most violent country in Latin America. In this context, the proposal of President Daniel Noboa is a popular consultation on security, which for the vast majority is useless and will not solve the growing problem of insecurity.... More


USA: Elections in trouble

The year we are starting will be complex in the United States due to the celebration of the presidential, legislative and gubernatorial elections in the midst of many internal and international pressures that will put citizens in more than one predicament when deciding their vote.... More


The BRICS group, now expanded, reinforces in 2024 its role as a geopolitical bloc with roots in the international community and the global South rightly looks to it with hope.... More


Back to school (shootings)

One dead and several wounded was the result of an armed attack at a school in the U.S. state of Iowa, which occurred when the school had just opened its doors after the Christmas and New Year's vacations.... More


Latin Americans to the polls

Latin America has a marathon electoral schedule in 2024 and already in the six countries planned there is talk of the campaigns, candidates and variables.... More


Cubans begin the new year advocating that work, necessarily of greater rigor and efficiency, should clear the way in the midst of acute material shortages, essentially caused by the intensified U.S. blockade.... 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, on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, at Céspedes Park, Santiago de Cuba, on January 1, 2024, "66th Year of the Revolution".... More


Speech delivered by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Revolution, on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, at Céspedes Park, Santiago de Cuba, on January 1, 2024, "66th Year of the Revolution".... More


The story continues.....

In the United States, the country that proclaims itself as the perfect democracy and takes the right to qualify the rest of the world according to its whim, things tend to happen that range from the curious to the ridiculous and one of the best known examples in this regard is former President Donald Trump.... More


Cuban health workers welcomed the announcement of provisions in effect as of January 1, 2024, regarding the increase of their monetary income.... More


The year 2023 is living its last hours and is about to enter the drawer of memories leaving behind a humanity incapable of resolving its serious contradictions, increased by the evidence of climate change and all the calamities that accompany it.... More


The end of the COVID-19 health emergency in the world represented good news in 2023, a year in which crises and wars as well as calamities linked to climate change were recorded or deepened.... More


In a war economy, Cuba maintains the priority of the state enterprise, even when its work is affected by shortages of inputs and fuel as well as foreign currency in the public coffers.... More


Environmental summary 2023

A weak but explicit commitment to end the use of fossil fuels by 2050 was perhaps the most significant outcome of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP 28.... More


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