By Daniela Cabrera Monzón on September 12, 2024 Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, explaining the impact of the US blockade. photo: Marcelino Vázquez Hernández/Cubadebate Cuba today presented an updated report on the damages caused by the longest and most extensive blockade in world history. From March 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024, the U.S. … Read More
The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) expressed its disagreement with the preliminary report of the panel of experts of the United Nations (UN) on the presidential elections held on July 28. In a statement, the electoral body described the report as illegal and contrary to UN principles, “violating the terms of reference agreed with this … Read More
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By James Phillips NicaNotes [James Phillips is a cultural and political anthropologist with forty years as a student of Central America. His most recent book is Extracting Honduras: Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration (Lexington Books, 2022).] (This article was first published in CovertAction Magazine on July 1, 2024.) In Part 1 of this article, a brief outline of the evolution … Read More
Peter Bolton, Roger D. Harris Corporate media’s coverage of Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election is akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim. Likewise, the media has shifted the narrative into the minutia of electoral procedures, ignoring the … Read More