📢 ‘Suddenly they started gassing us’: Cuban migrants tell of shocking attack at Ice prison

Refugees say protest against risk of Covid-19 was violently suppressed at New Mexico facility run by private firm CoreCivic

This story is published in collaboration with Searchlight New Mexico

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JOHN BOLTON IS TELLING THE TRUTH, BUT LET’S NOT FORGET HIS HORRIBLE, DANGEROUS CAREER

ormer national security adviser John Bolton at a forum moderated by Peter Feaver, the director of Duke’s American Grand Strategy, at Duke University on Feb. 17, 2020, in Durham, N.C. Photo: Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

Jon Schwarz

IS JOHN BOLTON’S new memoir of his days in the Trump administration, “The Room Where It Happened,” an accurate account of what he saw in the White House as national security adviser? The answer is almost certainly yes, making it a valuable historical record. Journalists may be particularly interested to learn that Donald Trump said that we “should be executed.”

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🇺🇲 U.S. offers 💲2 million for human rights in Cuba 🇨🇺

The State Department is offering up to $2 million to organizations that will promote human rights in Cuba.

An award announcement stated:

“Proposals should offer a specific vision for contributing to change while acknowledging and developing contingencies for challenges to program implementation.”

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Trump no puede tapar el arte con un dedo

Por Guille Vilar

Foto: CUBARTE

Entre las tantas cosas que el señor Donald Trump pretende ignorar con relación a Cuba está el significado de esa frase cargada de sabiduría milenaria donde se afirma que: «el Sol no se puede tapar con un dedo». Y para colmo de males, desde su propia perspectiva, la mismísima revista Times, reconocida promotora del entorno social de la cultura estadounidense, acaba de publicar una encuesta donde ubica a nuestra capitalina Fábrica de Arte Cubano entre los cien lugares más visitados en el mundo.

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EEUU y las elecciones en América Latina

Por Juan Manuel Karg

Primero fue Evo Morales Ayma: el presidente boliviano, que busca un nuevo mandato, denunció a fines de julio que EEUU había enviado agentes de inteligencia a su país, en vías a reunirse con la oposición a su gobierno de cara a las elecciones de octubre próximo. “Quiero que sepan, el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos está enviando sus agentes de inteligencia. Estamos informados: están reuniéndose con algunos comités cívicos. ¿Qué estarán planificando? ¿Qué mentira estarán inventando otra vez?” dijo el Jefe de Estado, que suele confrontar públicamente con el país del norte, con una agenda anti-imperialista, desde antes de llegar al gobierno.

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Is the Helms Burton Law applicable in Cuba?

Remarks by Carlos Fernández de Cossío, director general of United States affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, on the Helms-Burton Act.

Helms-Burton has no impact whatsoever, practical impact in Cuba. It’s a US Law with no jurisdiction whatsoever in Cuba and cannot be applied in any sovereign country that respects its sovereignty. Its jurisdiction is limited to the United States. In addition to that, Cuba passed a law in 1996 that defined that Helms-Burton was null and void of any meaning or impact in our country so in practical terms it has no effect whatsoever in Cuba.

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CUBA CONDEMNS THE TERRORIST SABOTAGE AGAINST THE POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM IN VENEZUELA

DECLARATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT

The Revolutionary Government strongly condemns the sabotage perpetrated against the power supply system in Venezuela, which is a terrorist action intended to harm the defenseless population of an entire nation and turn it into a hostage of the non-conventional war launched by the government of the United States against the legitimate government headed by comrade Nicolás Maduro Moros and the civic and military union of the Bolivarian and Chavista people.

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CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY STRONGLY REJECTS DISRESPECTFUL INTERFERENCE BY US STATE DEPARTMENT

DECLARATION BY THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF CUBA  

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba strongly rejects the disrespectful statement issued by the US State Department, attributed to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, which intends to question the constitutional referendum that was freely and sovereignly held by all Cubans on February 24 last.

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La añorada «reconstrucción» en Venezuela

Por Daynet Rodríguez Sotomayor

Resulta cotidiano encontrar en los grandes medios transnacionales, con premeditada insistencia, la necesidad de la reconstrucción de Venezuela.

Reconstrucción es la palabra favorita de los grandes medios transnacionales para dibujar el futuro «glorioso» que le espera a Venezuela. Aparece cotidiana e insistente, en artículos y editoriales que, como buenos zapadores, buscan allanar el camino de los traficantes de la guerra.

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