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


The U.S. government argues that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be prosecuted because he’s a “hacker” not a journalist. So why isn’t it satisfied with punishing him like one? While awaiting extradition, Assange has now served five years in Belmarsh Prison in the U.K. — the statutory maximum sentence under U.S. law for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.... More


Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of CELAC to examine the breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations ... More


Rwanda:  A collective crime

The past Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of one of the most shameful events in the modern history of our species, the Rwandan genocide where in 100 days between 800,000 and one million men, women and children were murdered by the cruelest methods.... More


The images went around the world last year and shocked Brazilian society and the international community. The Yanomami people were slowly dying. The serious food and health situation had already caused numerous deaths, especially among the infant population of Brazil's largest indigenous ethnic group.... More


China's helping hand

The advance of a rice donation and the completion, with Chinese help, of the deepest oil well ever drilled in Cuba, illustrated in recent weeks the scope and relevance of cooperation between the two countries.... More


Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which Ecuador violated in recent days by forcibly breaking into the Mexican embassy in Quito, the capital, to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been granted political asylum by the Mexican authorities.... More


Netanyahu is in trouble

Around 100,000 people held a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel's capital, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the calling of early legislative elections and an agreement for the return of people held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.... More


Babar Ahmad recounts his chilling expulsion to the US, shedding light on the stark realities of extradition and the potential fate of Julian Assange.... More


Javier Milei must be pleased with the lavish gestures of cordiality from the head of the U.S. Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, vehement with the open alignment of Buenos Aires with Washington, since the inauguration of the ultra-liberal Argentinean presiden... More


Cuba also bets on green jobs

In the world, in the face of the threat posed by climate change, the so-called green jobs are gaining space, which is defined as a decent job whose objective is to reduce the impact of human activity on the environment, as well as to guarantee its preservation and restoration.... More


Extermination by hunger

Millions of people born in the world in the last 50 years have no record in their memory of the terrible images of the "children of Biafra", who with their bodies deformed by malnutrition and eyes practically without eyelids showed the horror of hunger taken to the cruelest extreme.... More


With multiple challenges, but also with many desires to improve its functioning and work for the present and the future of the country, the Union of Young Communist Cubans is reaching its sixty-second anniversary of its creation.... More


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