Cuba will survive: a diary
Vijay Prashad’s account of his recent visit to Cuba and the impact of the US oil blockade on Cubans’ daily lives.
Latin America
The unbreakable China-Latin America ties
China-Latin America cooperation is growing because it is mutually beneficial. Latin America has gained markets for its commodities, secured investment in desperately needed infrastructure and access to affordable technology. It’s this kind of common prosperity that will outlast any one president or political conflict.
It was the US, not Maduro, that tried to steal Venezuela’s 2024 elections
There was fraud in the 2024 Venezuelan Presidential election, and it was perpetrated by the US-backed opposition.
Venezuela is the latest but far from the last U.S. attack – what propels increasing U.S. military aggression?
The U.S. attack on Venezuela is merely the latest step in an increasingly open path of U.S. military aggression – the U.S. enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza, creating the war in Ukraine through NATO expansion, following from the bombing of Serbia in 1999, the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and of Iraq in 2003, and the bombing of Libya in 2011.
Cuba’s solar turn
Working with Chinese assistance, this year Cuba is building 55 solar farms to tackle its current shortfall in electricity supply and plans to build a further 37 by the end of 2028 to cater for increased demand.
No to a US war on Venezuela!
The overthrow of the Bolivarian Revolution would enable the US to control Venezuela’s oil and help sustain the US’s faltering economy, as well as shore up the rhetoric of Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda.