The people of Mali are mobilizing in solidarity with Venezuela on this International Day of Action in defense of popular democracy and sovereignty. Photo: X/ @telesurenglish
August 17 (teleSUR) Under the slogan #HandOffVenezuela, hundreds of social movements, peasant movements, unions and political organizations from all over the world express their solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
Activists in Seoul, South Korea, protest at the US Embassy in Seoul, denouncing the attempts of US imperialism to intervene against democracy and the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people, who elected Maduro as their president.
#HandsOffVenezuela Global demonstrations begin in support of Venezuela's democracy and sovereignty.
Also in the city of New York, in the united states, this Saturday protest against Fox News to denounce their lies against Venezuelan popular democracy and their active role in the ongoing coup d’état against Venezuela orchestrated by US imperialism
The League of Young Farmers of DRC (Ligue des Jeunes Paysans de la RDC), expressed their support for Nicolás Maduro and the people of Venezuela from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In Galicia and Asturias they also joined the global uprising in defense of democracy and popular sovereignty in Venezuela, for peace and against fascism. The event took place at the Venezuelan consulate in Vigo, Galicia.
In addition, Venezuelan Diplomatic Mission in Havana held a Day of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in defense of Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro, for peace and against fascism.
#HandsOffVenezuela | The people of #Mali are mobilizing in solidarity with Venezuela on this International Day of Action in defense of popular democracy and sovereignty, and in rejection of fascism and the US intervention in Venezuela
New Delhi, August 17 (Radio Habana Cuba) — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Saturday that coercive measures such as the U.S. blockade against the Caribbean island are a serious obstacle to the full achievement of economic and social development.
In his speech at the Third Summit of the Voice of the Global South, organized virtually by India, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Caribbean island called for multiplying solidarity and cooperation in the face of coercion, unilateralism and selfishness.
He recalled that his people have suffered for more than 60 years from the serious and negative impact of a suffocating economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government, which has been intensified to the extreme since 2019.
The Cuban foreign minister pointed out that the arbitrary, fraudulent and unprovable inclusion of Cuba on the State Department’s unilateral list of alleged terrorism-sponsoring nations further reinforces the effects of this inhuman policy.
Likewise, he took the opportunity to thank the international community for its displays of solidarity with the largest of the Antilles and for its rejection of this system of unilateral coercive measures that has been imposed against Cuba.
On the other hand, Bruno Rodriguez expressed his country’s gratitude for the invitation to participate in the third Summit of the Voice of the Global South, which, he affirmed, is a forum to debate and channel the efforts of developing nations in order to face the enormous challenges in the midst of a complex international context.
In this regard, Rodriguez pointed out that if we really hope to advance towards the development of all these countries, it is imperative to articulate a new international economic order and reformulate the current financial architecture, based on equity, sovereign equality, mutual benefit and cooperation.
We urgently need to implement the internationally agreed climate agenda without further delay, in accordance with the principles of equity, common but differentiated responsibilities in the respective capacities, he specified.
The Cuban foreign minister added that facing climate change should not become an additional burden that the countries of the south cannot bear, so he considered that new support for cooperation and financing of these nations is fundamental in this effort.
Likewise, the head of the island’s diplomacy stressed that the demand for development by the South is part of the battle to safeguard life on the planet.
Bruno Rodriguez pointed out that these values and principles, together with the determined unity of the South, marked the Cuban presidency of the Group of 77 and China during 2023, and was evidence of the possibility of developing countries to become a relevant actor and an influential interlocutor in the sense of the interests of the peoples.
Finally, the Cuban foreign minister stressed that unity plus rich diversity becomes a strength of the nations of the South so that they can resume their rightful place within the international system and in that endeavor they can count on Cuba, he stressed. (PL)
August 13 (Belly of the Beast) Santería, deeply woven into Cuban identity, has evolved from a forbidden practice to a celebrated one. From the cleansing power of Elegua to the revolutionary spirit of Xango, Santería is a vibrant part of Cuban culture.
Liz spoke with various practitioners of the religion to hear their experience. Watch the video HERE.
From Granma province, Trujillo Barreto recognized the commitment of the educators of this eastern territory. Photo: Yanelkys Llera Céspedes
Havana, August 16 (Radio Habana Cuba) — With only a few weeks left to begin the next school year in Cuba, the Minister of Education, Naima Ariatne Trujillo, accompanied by other directors of the sector, are touring all the provinces of the country with the aim of assessing the guarantees for the start of the 2024-2025 school year.
From the eastern province of Granma, Trujillo recognized the commitment of the educators of this eastern territory, who, given the economic situation that the country is facing, are looking for alternatives to advance the training of students.
The meeting was attended by Alba Rosa Fernández, an official of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the highest political and governmental authorities of the province.
Discussions were held in committees on: Improvement of Pedagogical Training, Political-Ideological Work System, Communication and Computerization, Implementation of the ERCE, Improvement of the English Language Strategy, Process of Admission to Higher Education, Transformation and Improvement of Technical and Professional Education, Economic-financial management, among other topics.
In the province, there is a favorable situation regarding teacher coverage, therefore, on September 2, 1,082 schools will open their doors to receive 118,987 students, a figure higher than the previous year.
The head of Education specified in conversation with the press. The books for the first group are already available and the books for the second group of the improvement grade are arriving in the country. They will be available earlier than last year, providing methodological guarantees, constituting an important help for the family and the teacher in terms of the implementation of the III Improvement.
At the end of the exchange, the Minister of Education called on the Granma pedagogues to improve the training requirements with the objective of ensuring the success of the educational teaching process. (Source: Cubadebate).
Havana, August 17 (Radio Habana Cuba) — The member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, called on Friday for an end to interference in Venezuela.
From his account on X, the foreign minister pointed out that, as he warned the day before, an interventionist resolution was imposed on the sister Bolivarian country in the Organization of American States (OAS).
“That organization, which supported coups d’état, dictatorships and did not condemn invasions by the United States (US) in the region, lacks the authority to urge our countries to submit to spurious mandates,” he said in his message on the social network.
Rodriguez denounced these attempts by the OAS to impose a resolution on the electoral process in Venezuela.
According to the head of Cuban diplomacy, the document issued maintains the same interventionist character as the previous attempts at a resolution on the subject.
He also urged to refrain from promoting actions that generate instability and violence in that nation.
OAS member countries discussed another resolution in which they again ask the National Electoral Council to deliver the official results of the last elections of July 28, an independent review of them and to stop the alleged violations of human rights in Venezuela.
On Friday, the Permanent Council of the OAS adopted the resolution without an open vote.
The non-binding text was presented on behalf of the United States and Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Suriname and Uruguay as co-sponsors. (Source: ACN)
August 16 (Radio Habana Cuba) The suggestion of a co-government with the U.S.-backed, coup-plotting far right is a disregard for Venezuelan rule of law.
On Friday, ALBA Movements, an organization bringing together grassroots movements from 25 countries in the Americas, issued a statement rejecting the claims made by the presidents of Colombia and Brazil, who proposed the formation of a cohabitation government in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected in the July 28 elections.
Below is the statement from ALBA Movements:
“Respect for the sovereignty and self-determination of peoples is a principle that any revolutionary project should prioritize. It must make that principle a political banner in international relations, even in the face of conservative foreign pressure that always seeks to undermine it.
The social and popular movements that know, love, and defend the Bolivarian people reject, as unusual and untimely, the slightest idea or suggestion, such as that proposed by some ‘progressive’ sectors in the region, of developing diplomatic, political, military, or any other type of interventions in Venezuela, which are aimed at effectively disregarding the results of a concluded electoral process.
These insinuations are nothing more than a denial of Venezuela’s sovereignty and a lack of respect for the people’s will expressed at the polls on July 28. While we acknowledge the democratic spirit of the governments of Brazil and Colombia, we expect their leaders to rise to the level of the peoples they represent and who elected them.
Respect for the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, its institutions, and the full awareness that allowing half-hearted versions or the suggestion of extranational methods to ‘resolve’ the attempted coup will only create opportunities for imperialism to bury the Revolution, as it has been dreaming of doing for over 25 years.
Neither Petro would ever join a ‘National Front’ led by Alvaro Uribe, nor would Lula be part of a coalition headed by Bolsonaro. The far-right, which is by definition anti-democratic, would never allow that. It doesn’t even make pragmatic sense to ask Venezuela to do so.
Neither the media, nor the Organization of American States, nor the United States, nor any other country in the region. Only the Venezuelan people, through the strength of their legitimate institutions, will determine their destiny.
The mere suggestion of a co-government with the U.S.-funded, coup-plotting far right, which has used physical and symbolic violence to attack Chavista organizations, militants, and the people, is a disregard for the functioning of the Venezuelan rule of law and its Constitution, which does not provide for second rounds of elections or foreign audits. No country would be willing to surrender its sovereignty by allowing other countries to judge its electoral processes.
It is very simple: The Venezuelan legal framework provides a procedure in case there are doubts about the electoral process, which is the filing of a petition with the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. This process is currently underway at the initiative of President Nicolas Maduro himself, and the Court’s ruling should be the final word on any speculation.
ALBA Movements calls on progressive and revolutionary forces committed to the anti-imperialist struggle to actively defend Venezuela in this context of attempted coup, which appears to be carried out by a fascist opposition sector but aligns with the U.S. strategy of regional control.
Today they are targeting Venezuela, tomorrow they will go after our peoples. If we do not defend Venezuela now, it will be too late for us tomorrow. Let us not be confused or mistaken: the enemy remains the same even if it disguises itself in new clothes and masks.
We are also the same. We are those who promised Commander Chavez to always be loyal. We are those who committed to achieving the second and final independence. We are those who will always defend the sovereignty of our continent.”
Havana, August 16 (Radio Habana Cuba) — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on Thursday denounced the attempts by the Organization of American States (OAS) to impose a resolution on the electoral process in Venezuela.
On his X account, the foreign minister condemned the document issued because it maintains the same interventionist character as the previous attempts at a resolution on the issue.
“We call for refraining from promoting actions that generate instability and violence in that country,” Rodríguez said.
OAS member countries discussed another resolution in which they again ask the National Electoral Council to deliver the official results of the last elections on July 28, an independent review of them and to stop the alleged “violations of human rights” in Venezuela.
On July 31st, three days after the elections in the South American nation, the Permanent Council met in Washington for an extraordinary session to analyze this situation and demand the immediate delivery of the minutes and a comprehensive verification of the results in the presence of independent observation organizations.
However, the resolution ended up failing, obtaining only 17 votes of the 18 required for approval. (Source: ACN)
August 11 (teleSUR) Students and professors of the Instituto Superior de Diseños (ISDI), inaugurated an exhibition of posters related to Palestine, its culture, identity and the genocide by Israel to which they are subjected.
The works mix the colors of the Palestinian flag with lines that intersect to become kufiyas, faces of children, women or doves of peace.
According to the vice-dean of ISDI, “Ernesto Fernández, this initiative is a cry for peace, a call to the essence of the human being, a voice on behalf of children without a voice, because Palestine hurts and from that pain is born creation and love”.
One of the exhibitors, Sofia Chico, explained that the exhibition seeks to make visible and condemn the genocide of “Israel” against Palestine. “The least we can do as communicators and human beings is not to stop talking about it,” he explained.
Students and professors of the Higher Institute of Design at the University of Havana are holding in this capital on Tuesday a collective exhibition with posters in support of Palestine, the educational institution informed. #Cuba#ISDi#Palestine#solidarity#students
The exhibiting students chose Canaan as the name of the exhibition, referring to the ancient name of Palestine.
According to exponents, each of the paintings are also the result of an academic exercise and in turn identification with the Gazati cause.
Havana, Aug. 15 (Radio Habana Cuba) Member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda, on Thursday ratified his country’s solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in the face of the intention to ignore the official results of the presidential elections held in Venezuela last July 28.
In a message posted on the social network X, Morales Ojeda reiterated his country’s unwavering support for the head of state of the South American nation, Nicolás Maduro.
The party leader also referred to the interference of the United States, affirming that the attempts to disregard the will of the people are promoted by the government of the North American country.
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently denounced the irresponsible promotion of the return to the stage of violence and destabilization to promote a coup d’état against the powers of the State, with the agreement of international actors and sectors of the internal opposition, in order to overthrow the legitimate government of Venezuela.
“The Venezuelan people have decided to maintain their majority support for the option founded by Commander Hugo Chavez Frías and maintained in the face of threats and external aggression, under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and its allied parties,” the statement said. (Source: ACN)
Havana, Aug 14 (Radio Habana Cuba) The political stature of the statesman and exceptional human being, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, continues today at the epicenter of the tribute offered in multiple latitudes for his 98th birthday.
In social networks and numerous press media, messages of recognition for the sovereign and emancipating legacy of the commander-in-chief of this revolutionary process of great significance in Cuba and the world have been circulating since August 13, his name day.
Thus, in Bolivia, Panama, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Argentina and other Latin American nations recognized Fidel Castro’s contributions to the achievement of their independence or the consolidation of liberation movements in the American continent.
In the land of Bolivar, Foreign Minister Yván Gil praised the transcendental life of the Cuban and universal leader, while Argentines who graduated in the island expressed their gratitude to the Antillean guerrilla, whose legacy is visible today in hundreds of social missions of the Bolivarian country.
Meanwhile in Ecuador, members of the state mission, friends of the island and Cuban residents in that country, as well as representatives of political and social organizations paid tribute to the former Antillean president at the Cuban embassy in Quito.
The ambassador of the Caribbean country there, Basilio Gutiérrez, recalled that the leader of the Cuban Revolution changed the history of his nation and contributed to the independence of other peoples of Latin America and the world.
In the same sense, messages came from diplomatic headquarters of the Caribbean country in Europe and Africa, social movements, political parties and world leaders, especially those of progressive sign.
They do justice to Fidel Castro, who has become a living legend since his triumphant arrival in Havana on January 8, 1959, at the head of the guerrillas who defeated the regime of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958). With his thought and work, this revolutionary process transcended the borders of the Cuban nation.
Fidel Castro’s Cuba is today a paradigm for Latin American revolutionaries and progressive movements in various parts of the world, who counted on his vocation for solidarity and Latin Americanism to achieve independence in their countries.
The contributions of the Cuban and universal leader to the strengthening of the leftist forces in Latin America and the rest of the planet are widely documented, and his contribution to the anti-colonialist struggles in Africa, to the defeat of Apartheid in South Africa, and to the unity of the poor nations of the world is epic. (Source: Prensa Latina)
