CUBA: The US blockade is like a medieval siege and cost the Cuban economy $154 billion over 60 years. Trump and Biden put Cuba on the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list (along with Iran, Syria, North Korea), making it even more difficult for Cuba to acquire goods on the international market as fuel, food, … Continue reading The US Blockades What Countries?
Venezuela & ALBA News 7.12.2024: Venezuela High Stakes Presidential Election; Bolivia Arrests 24 Coup Plotters; Daniel Ortega at 82% approval
Orinoco Tribune: Venezuela: President Maduro Leads in the Polls Before Presidential Elections According to Hinterlaces, which carried out a national survey by sampling with respect to gender, age, locality, and socio-economic and educational levels, President Maduro leads voting intentions with 54.2%, far ahead of his closest contender, the candidate of the right-wing Unitary Platform (PUD), … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 7.12.2024: Venezuela High Stakes Presidential Election; Bolivia Arrests 24 Coup Plotters; Daniel Ortega at 82% approval
Venezuela & ALBA News 7.5.2024: More on Failed Bolivia coup; Venezuela Inflation a new Low; Upcoming Webinars
TeleSur: The Venezuelan People March Supporting the Patriotic Pole Campaign On Thursday, while the electoral campaigns began for the presidential elections on July 28, massive marches supporting the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro at the head of the Patriotic Pole, have flooded Venezuela. UltimaNoticias: At least 500,000 Venezuelans have returned with support from the Government … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 7.5.2024: More on Failed Bolivia coup; Venezuela Inflation a new Low; Upcoming Webinars
Assange receives Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in Venezuela for ‘brave and fearless’ journalism
Australian journalist spent 5 years in prison in the UK and was released on June 24 Australian journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange received the special journalism award in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday, July 1. The annual award known as the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize is in its 82nd edition, is awarded by the Venezuelan government … Continue reading Assange receives Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in Venezuela for ‘brave and fearless’ journalism
Venezuela & ALBA News 6.28.2024: Failed US-backed coup in Bolivia; New intervention in Haiti; Latin American leaders celebrate Assange; Venezuela’s Maduro vs US election interference
Peoples Dispatch: Hundreds of Kenyan police arrive in Port-au-Prince, establishing the latest foreign military occupation of Haiti 400 Kenyan police arrived on June 25 in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. The deployment of 600 more is expected to follow in the coming days and weeks. This was authorized by the UN Security Council, which last year approved … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 6.28.2024: Failed US-backed coup in Bolivia; New intervention in Haiti; Latin American leaders celebrate Assange; Venezuela’s Maduro vs US election interference
Venezuela & ALBA News 6.21.2024: Venezuela Speaks for Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations; Cuba on NGOs and CIA
Venezuela Foreign Minister Ivan Gil: “Elimination of unilateral extraterritorial coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion” statement on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations “Unilateral coercive measures, including those applied as tools for political or economic and financial compulsion against any country, … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 6.21.2024: Venezuela Speaks for Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations; Cuba on NGOs and CIA
Nicaragua’s Laureano Ortega: We see with great optimism the strengthening of this new multilateral world order
"We see with great optimism the strengthening of this New World Order, we have even already applied, to the Russian Federation as Pro Tempore Presidency of BRICS, so that Nicaragua can be a partner country of this great bloc" Interview with Comrade Laureano Ortega Murillo, Special Representative of the President of Nicaragua for Affairs with … Continue reading Nicaragua’s Laureano Ortega: We see with great optimism the strengthening of this new multilateral world order
Venezuela & ALBA News #510, 6.14.2024: Washington Responds to Venezuela Elections with Regime Change operation; US Seeking to Manipulate Cuba’s Currency as it did with Venezuela’s
Venezuela RT: Venezuela Reveals White House Offers for Maduro to Leave Presidency National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez revealed in a press conference the “offers” Washington officials have made to President Maduro to leave the Venezuelan presidency. “In Mexico, the gringos asked for a meeting, and Maduro told me: ‘Go see what the gringos want,'” said … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News #510, 6.14.2024: Washington Responds to Venezuela Elections with Regime Change operation; US Seeking to Manipulate Cuba’s Currency as it did with Venezuela’s
Granma: What is the story behind the operators of El Toque? As they did with Dolar Today in Venezuela, the US Government ‘secretly” finances El Toque
https://www.granma.cu/cuba/2024-05-09/la-historia-no-contada-detras-de-los-operadores-del-toque-09-05-2024-12-05-24 See also: Granma: About the financial war that is being waged against us The manipulation of the monetary scale to influence price increases carried out by the El Toque platform, using its daily exchange pesos to dollar rate, negatively influences Cuba's GDP, Razones de Cuba, specialized in unmasking the attacks against Cuba, denounced this … Continue reading Granma: What is the story behind the operators of El Toque? As they did with Dolar Today in Venezuela, the US Government ‘secretly” finances El Toque
Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)
Stansfield Smith For the Chinese, the trauma of the Century of Humiliation continues as a blunt reminder of their past defeat and neo-colonial servitude, as well as a reminder of the West’s self-righteous hypocrisy and arrogance. In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations. Then came the Europeans. They eventually looted and … Continue reading Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)
Chicago ALBA Solidarity 