During the crime spree that marked Trump’s last months in office, in between soliciting election fraud and encouraging violence and insurrection to prevent a legal transfer of power, Trump placed Cuba [...] Continue Reading
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A Government That Contributes to Peace Isn’t Terrorist
The vice-president of Colombia, Francia Márquez Mina, came to Cuba for the 31st Havana International Book Fair, which this year celebrates Colombia as the guest country of honor. In May 2022, [...] Continue Reading
A un País Que Contribuye a la Paz no se le Puede Llamar Terrorista
La Vicepresidenta de Colombia, Francia Márquez Mina, llegó a Cuba para la inauguración de la edición 31 de la Feria del Libro de La Habana, que tiene a Colombia como país invitado de honor. En mayo [...] Continue Reading
Honoring Ana Belén Montes
Ana Belén Montes was released on parole Jan. 8 after more than 20 years in U.S. prisons. She was convicted of espionage. Her actions were motivated by conscience and were uncoerced and unpaid. She [...] Continue Reading
Libertad Religiosa en Cuba
El 2 de diciembre de 2022, el Secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Antony Blinken, promulgó una declaración designando a Cuba, entre otros países, como “País de Preocupación Particular” por “haber [...] Continue Reading
Religious Freedom in Cuba
On Dec. 2, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a declaration designating Cuba, among other countries, as a “Country of Particular Concern” for “having engaged in or tolerated particularly [...] Continue Reading
Brazil Is Back, Lula Is Back, Marina Is Back
“We are back. We are back to help build a peaceful world order based on dialogue and multilateralism.”—Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [...] Continue Reading
Vuelve Brasil, Vuelve Lula, Vuelve Marina
"Estamos de vuelta. Regresamos para ayudar a construir un orden mundial pacífico basado en el diálogo y el multilateralismo.”—Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) El presidente electo de Brasil, Luiz [...] Continue Reading
UN Says “the U.S. Blockade of Cuba Is a Crime That Has to End”
You might be saying, “Wait a minute; the UN General Assembly vote on the blockade this year takes place in early November, and the deadline for this issue of the Community Alliance was mid-October. [...] Continue Reading
Vivos Se Los Llevaron*
On Sept. 26, 2014, a group of almost 100 student activists from the Ayotzinapa Normal School (a teacher training school) near Tixtla, in the middle of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, headed to Mexico [...] Continue Reading
Brilliant African Diaspora Culture in Cuba
Creating universal literacy and an environment where education is universal and free and accessible at all levels leads to a cultural flowering so extensive and deep as to be perhaps better [...] Continue Reading
United States Rebuked for Violations of Women’s Human Rights
CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly. It is an international bill of human rights [...] Continue Reading