Solidarity organizations and friends of Cuba will go to the city of Miami, Florida, today to participate in a vigil that will demand that US President Joe Biden end the coercive measures against the island.
Meeting at the international airport of that city, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. local time, the activists will urge the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed for more than six decades by Washington, which is considered a massive violation of the human rights of the Cuban people.
According to the coordinator of the Puentes de Amor solidarity project, Carlos Lazo, the initiative will require the White House to speed up the family reunification process at its embassy in Havana, strengthen the process of sending remittances to relatives in the Caribbean nation, and promote broad cultural and scientific cooperation between the two countries.
The participants will also urge the immediate elimination of all measures that hinder the flow of food, medical supplies and other basic resources to Cuba, as well as lifting the limits imposed on the right to travel freely to the island territory for all citizens and residents in northern soil.
In addition, those present will call to exclude the Caribbean country from the list of alleged sponsors of terrorism, which reinforces the impact of the blockade on the island, as well as the difficulties for international trade and financial operations.
“Our objective is to mobilize those who share these opinions to demonstrate that the true feeling of the majority of the residents of South Florida is to build Bridges of Love with the Cuban people,” Lazo insisted.
The activity of this day is part of others that will take place during December in various parts of the world to advocate for the normalization of relations between the two countries and the cessation of hostilities from this northern country.
Last Friday there was a vigil in the city of Vancouver, Canada, with messages of “Cuba yes, blockade no.”
Andrew Barry, leading the caravans against this policy in the city of the province of British Columbia, described the siege as unfair and illegal, and assured “that it tries to deny people on the island access to medicines, equipment and other materials considered basic.
For more than two years, solidarity demonstrations have taken place every month in different cities for the end of the coercive provisions from Washington, reinforced with the 243 measures imposed during the term of Donald Trump (2017-2021), in force almost in his entirely with the Biden administration.
The US ambassador to Peru, Lisa Kenna, is a veteran CIA agent. She met with the country’s defense minister just a day before democratically elected left-wing president Pedro Castillo was ousted in a coup and jailed without trial.
The Defense Minister, a retired brigadier general in the Peruvian Army, ordered the military to turn on Castillo.
The coup triggered massive protests throughout Peru. The unelected regime has unleashed brutal violence, and police have killed several protesters.
Meanwhile, the US government has staunchly supported Peru’s coup regime, which has declared a nationwide “state of emergency” and deployed armed forces to the streets in an attempt to crush the protests.
Most Latin American governments have criticized or even refused to recognize Peru’s coup regime, including Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Venezuela, Cuba, and several Caribbean nations.
The CIA has organized multiple coups against democratically elected leftist leaders in Latin America, from President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala in 1954 to President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973.
When the Donald Trump Administration nominated Lisa Kenna to be ambassador to Peru in 2020, the State Department issued a “certificate of competency” that revealed that “before joining the Foreign Service, she served for nine years as an officer of the Foreign Service Central Intelligence (CIA)”.
This important fact is curiously absent from most of Kenna’s biographies, including her page on the official US Embassy website.
Under Trump, Kenna also served as executive secretary of the State Department, and was a “senior aide” to Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who previously headed the CIA.
Regarding her work for the notorious spy agency, Pompeo admitted in 2019: “I was the director of the CIA. We lie, we cheat, we steal. We even had training courses.”
At a 2020 US congressional nomination hearing, Kenna admitted that, as executive secretary, she saw “almost all” of the memos that were sent to Pompeo, adding: “I am aware of the vast majority of calls made for him”.
Kenna also previously worked for the Department of Defense and held State Department positions in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Swaziland, and Pakistan.
When President Joe Biden entered in January 2021, he kept Kenna on as ambassador to Peru.
On December 6, 2022, Kenna met with Gustavo Bobbio Rosas, a retired Brigadier General who had been appointed as Peru’s Defense Minister the day before. (A local news outlet reported that the meeting was on December 5, but that appears to have been a mistake.)
The Peruvian Ministry of Defense published a photo of her friendly chat.
At the time of this meeting, it was known in Peru that the congress, which is notoriously corrupt and controlled by right-wing oligarchs, was preparing a new vote to overthrow the democratically elected president, Pedro Castillo.
Article 113 of Peru’s constitution allows the unicameral congress to remove presidents simply by voting to declare them “morally incapable,” in a process known as the “vacancy.”
Peru’s Congress is well known for its extreme corruption. In the infamous Mamanivideos scandal, congressmen from the far-right Fuerza Popular party were recorded bribing other congressmen to vote against the vacancy, in defense of former right-wing president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Fuerza Popular is led by members of the family of Alberto Fujimori, the far-right dictator who ruled Peru with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000. With the support of the United States, Fujimori committed genocide, sterilizing an estimated 300,000 indigenous people, while murdering, torturing and disappearing a large number of leftist dissidents.
The Mamanivideos scandal showed that it is quite easy for Peru’s wealthy oligarchs to buy votes in Congress to overthrow the president who was elected by the people.
And as soon as Castillo took office on July 28, 2021, Congress tried to do just that.
This was the third coup attempt in just over a year by the Peruvian Congress, which in September 2022 had just 7% approval.
Hoping to stop the coup, Castillo responded by trying to dissolve Congress. This is allowed in cases of filibuster by article 134 of the Peruvian Constitution.
Defense Minister Bobbio immediately denounced the president’s actions. He posted a video resigning his position (which had only busy for three days).
Bobbio claimed that Castillo was launching a “coup attempt,” but in reality Bobbio was instructing the Peruvian military to support a coup against the president-elect, on behalf of a notoriously corrupt Congress that is controlled by oligarchs, without the support of the population. .
As Bobbio ordered the military to revolt against the president, the US government quickly attacked Castillo.
I met with President Boluarte to reiterate the US commitment to the defense of democracy and respect for institutions. Together with the @presidenciaperu and the unity government that it promised to form, we hope to strengthen our bilateral relationship.
CIA veteran and current ambassador Lisa Kenna tweeted: “The United States categorically rejects any extraconstitutional act by President Castillo to prevent Congress from carrying out his mandate.”
Kenna did not mention Article 134 of the Peruvian Constitution, which states:
The President of the Republic is empowered to dissolve Congress if it has censured or denied the confidence of two Councils of Ministers [the official name of the Peruvian cabinet]. The dissolution decree contains the call for elections for a new Congress.
When Castillo tried to dissolve congress, he cited article 134 and made it clear that it was only going to be a “temporary” closure. The president said that new congressional elections would be held as soon as possible.
Kenna ignored all this context. Instead, the ambassador stated: “The United States strongly urges President Castillo to reverse his attempt to shut down Congress and allow Peru’s democratic institutions to function according to the Constitution.”
By this, the former CIA agent meant that Castillo should simply allow the undemocratic, oligarch-controlled congress to launch a coup against him.
Subsequently, the US embassy in Peru released an official statement that echoed exactly what Kenna had said.
This was the green light from Washington for Peru’s corrupt Congress to overthrow President Castillo, and for state security services to arrest him without trial.
After 28 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations, Cuba remains in the hearts of South Africans represented in every Cuban doctor who saves a life, in every engineer who improves infrastructure, in every teacher who helps train young people.
Delegates to the ANC’s 55th Congress applauded almost unanimously when President Cyril Ramaphosa mentioned Cuba and his contribution to the people of South Africa.
Starting from the truth that the majority of North Americans and Cubans living in the United States are not in favor of Washington’s economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the Cuban people, Cuban-American professor Carlos Lazo created one of the most loving organizations that can be conceived: Puentes de Amor (Bridges of Love).
Among its many humanitarian initiatives, it organizes outside of Cuba solidarity marches with the people of the island, collects donations both for victims of natural disasters inside Cuba, and sends and delivers valuable and essential supplies for the Cuban national health system, counteracts hate campaigns generated from the United States, etc.
Where there is a need for Cuba generated by the hostile US policy, there comes Puentes de Amor, without the purpose of obtaining any profit, with its support, material or spiritual.
It is only necessary to have good feelings towards the Cuban Nation to join its initiatives, nothing else is needed.
More than half of Americans today think that former President Donald Trump’s (2017-2021) call to remove electoral rules from the Constitution should disqualify him from running for the White House in 2024.
This was revealed in a Quinnipiac University survey, in which 51% of registered voters said that the former president’s recent comments should keep him off the ballot.
However, 40 out of 100 interviewees thought that the tycoon should not be disqualified for the matter.
According to the newspaper The Hill, in the answers there were marked divergences between the parties: while 86% of Democrats believe that the phrases should end their race for re-election, only 17% of Republicans said the same.
Trump announced his 2024 candidacy shortly after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, the results of which he drew criticism for.
Although the forecasts gave the Republicans as favorites to win the majority in Congress, they only managed to dominate the House of Representatives (with 222 seats out of the 435 in that instance), while the Senate was left in the hands of the Democrats, by achieving 51 of its 100 seats.
Among the questions is the fact that the former president supported candidates in the primaries who were seen as weaker options for the midterm elections, but more loyal to him than his opponents, and many of them lost in key votes.
Also earlier this month, Trump sparked controversy when, more than two years after his defeat in the 2020 elections against Joe Biden, he asked to rescind the United States Constitution to annul the elections and restore him to power. .
“Do you discard the results of the 2020 presidential election and declare the FAIR WINNER or do you have a NEW ELECTION?”, he wrote in a post on Truth Social, his Internet platform, despite the fact that subsequent investigations ruled out the existence of any fraud. .
Although the tycoon tried to retract his comments and insist that he was not asking for the termination of the Constitution, on that website he wrote that “a Massive Fraud” of this type “allows the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those that They are found in the Magna Carta.
The New Yorker is also the center of investigations by the Department of Justice for his alleged attempts to frustrate the transition to power of the winner of the 2020 votes, and the retention of classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion, more than a year after leave the Oval Office.
The XXII State and Government Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA-TCP) ends today in Cuba at the Palace of the Revolution located in Havana, Cuba. The commitment of the member states to strengthen political and economic unity in Latin America and the Caribbean to counteract the negative effects of neoliberal globalization that benefits large companies to the detriment of our peoples is ratified.
Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez dreamed of regional integration 18 years ago when the left was flourishing among the governments of America. Now we can boost this mechanism and ensure the prosperous future of our nations.
This December 10, Cuba jubilantly celebrates International Human Rights Day, knowing that few countries in the world have achieved the results that the Caribbean island boasts.
Being a small country, with its economy besieged by more than 60 years of economic, commercial and financial blockade, it can boast of its imprint for safeguarding the dignity of women and men regardless of ideologies, religions, races or sexual orientation.
It is a country that legislates in favor of social inclusion, that respects families, that believes in human improvement, in full equality and freedom. Cuba is constantly emancipating itself with the certainty that it is heading towards a future with more revolution, illuminating the path for underdeveloped and developing countries.
With fewer material, human, and financial resources, Cuba can teach lessons on respect for human rights. When all the countries disputed the rights to purchase the vaccines against COVID-19, torpedoing the access of others to expendable medical materials, medicines and antivirals, Cuba intensified the development of its own vaccines that, with more than 90% effectiveness , managed to rescue normality in their population, while in other countries they continue to die from this pandemic.
The Cuban Revolution is criticized by its detractors who seek to delegitimize its sovereignty. However, there are plenty of examples to show that those who attack the Caribbean Island are the first to repress the rights of the working class in their respective countries. They are those who do not recognize gender and race equality. They are the ones who favor individual enrichment and not the social one. They are the ones who flood the international press with superfluous headlines to alienate the world and continue to take away its wealth with neoliberal globalization.
History will necessarily have to talk about that small country that prevailed among giants and never gave in to its desire to be free.
The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, today highlighted the results of the V International Conference on Human Rights Dialogues, which concluded today at the University of Havana.
The president congratulated the organizers and participants of the event, convened by various organizations of Cuban civil society, for their contributions, from science, to the comprehensive protection of human rights and dignity as its foundation.
The Congress met from December 7 to 9 with the participation of 200 delegates, including representatives of eight nations, including Chile, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Italy.
The theoretical program included the debate of some 140 papers on childhood, youth and care for the environment, as well as protection against violence and the creation of regulations.