(2021-07-13). Cuban President's Statement to the People of Cuba. globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-13). Cuban Leader Warns Of US-Backed Opportunists Seeking To Destabilise Country. popularresistance.org Mr Diaz-Canel, who spoke to protesters in the municipality of San Antonio de los Banos, said that US-backed opposition figures are using the situation to destabilise the country. "The protests involve many revolutionary citizens who want an explanation for the current situation in the country, but are also contaminated by groups of opportunists who take advantage of the current crisis to undermine order and generate chaos," he said in a televised address.
(2021-07-13). Pro-Revolutionary Forces Take to Streets of Cuba as More Details Revealed in Moise's Assassination. sputniknews.com More details emerge about Moise assassins; National strike in Colombia enters 10th week; 20 Years of endless war blows back on US society; and US targeting of Cuba and Haiti connected to imperialism hegemony.
(2021-07-13). Díaz-Canel slams US for 'suffocating' Cuba's economy. en.mehrnews.com Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez slammed the cruel blockade imposed by the US against the island as the main cause behind recent economic problems.
(2021-07-13). Cuban leader warns of U.S.-backed opportunists seeking to destabilize country. peoplesworld.org
(2021-07-13). Suspected Assassins of Haitian President MoàØse Trained by US, Linked to Pro-Coup Oligarchy. orinocotribune.com 
By Dan Cohen — Jul 9, 2021 | As the investigation into MoàØse's murder unfolds, the U.S. is laying the groundwork to deploy troops into Haiti for the fourth time in 106 years, at the request of a figure it has spent decades grooming. | PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI — As shock grips the Caribbean island nation of Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse, the Haitian government has carried out a campaign to arrest suspects it alleges are responsible for the murder. | Haitian Director of National Police Leon Charles announced at a press conference that the assassination squad th…
(2021-07-13). Haiti: Jovenel MoàØse's Head of Security Traveled to Colombia 6 Times — Linked to Miami-based CTU Security. orinocotribune.com 
Colombian authorities confirmed this Monday that the head of security at the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dimitri Hérard, made several trips to Colombia and other Latin American countries in 2021, the purposes of which are unknown, reported the news agency EFE. | "We learned through Interpol's team in Colombia that Commissioner Dimitri Hérard, head of the general security unit of the National Palace of Haiti, had made trips to Ecuador, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, using Colombia as a stop off," said the director of the Colombian Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, in a press conference abou…
(2021-07-13). Fears of US Intervention in Haiti Escalate After Dictator's Assassination. orinocotribune.com 
By C.J. Atkins — Jul 8, 2021 | UPDATE: On the evening of Friday, July 9, Haitian government officials announced they had requested that the United States dispatch military forces to their country, ostensibly to protect ports, airports, gasoline reserves, and other facilities. The White House said the Biden administration would be sending FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials to Haiti right away; neither the State Department nor the Defense Department have yet confirmed what forces may be deployed. | In the pre-dawn hours of July 7, the president-turned-dictator of Haiti, Jovenel MoàØse, wa…
(2021-07-13). 'Several' suspects in Haiti's presidential assassination were informants for US drug agency, FBI — reports. rt.com 
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) confirmed that at least one of the men arrested for the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise was their informant, according to CNN, while several others may have had ties to the FBI. | Moise was gunned down at dawn last Wednesday by attackers who reportedly claimed to be DEA agents raiding his home. Responding to an inquiry by CNN on Monday, the agency officially denied that the attackers were acting on its behalf, but confirmed that "at times, one of the suspects" detained by the Haitian authorities "was a confidential source to the DEA." | JUST IN: Several of the m…
(2021-07-13). 2 US police informants suspects in Haitian President's murder. en.mehrnews.com According to some reports, two suspects in the Haitian President's assassination were the US law enforcement informants.
(2021-07-13). Washington has not ruled out sending troops to Haiti. wsws.org A US security delegation dispatched to Port-au-Prince brought together the three figures claiming to be head of state following the assassination of de facto president Jovenel MoàØse.
(2021-07-13). The War against Petrocaribe: Examining U.S. Imperial Geopolitics on the Caribbean Spectrum. libya360.wordpress.com Misión Verdad Map of the Caribbean (Photo: Archive) Professor Jean-Claude Gerlus, in his research "The Effects of the Cold War on U.S.-Haitian Relationsos ", was correct in pointing out that the Caribbean Basin was transformed into an undeclared war zone during that period. Reminiscences continue to be experienced in the region. A few days ago,…
(2021-07-13). Webinar Thursday 15: Current Popular Struggles Against US Intervention: Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru and Chile. orinocotribune.com Join us in this new revised webinar with Dan Kovalik and please share this invitation. | We are faced with possible US intervention in Haiti after the murder of the president, a possible coup over the election results in Peru, new US backed protests in Cuba, the positive election results in Chile, the continued bloody repressions in Colombia, regime change plans against Sandinista Nicaragua, and the growing movement to free Venezuela's Alex Saab. Dan Kovalik, labor and human rights lawyer, has been on delegations to many of these countries, and he will review the present state of the popular struggles and Washing…
(2021-07-13). President Díaz-Canel Speaks with the People in Streets of Cuba & Repudiates Fake News. orinocotribune.com 
With a tour of the streets of Cuba, President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a message of gratitude to the revolutionaries who came out to counter the manipulations of the national and international right wing promoting acts of violence. | In this way, the president joined the campaign in defense of peace and sovereignty on the Caribbean island, which has been threatened recently by what he denounced as "counterrevolutionary elements who receive money from US agencies." | Meanwhile, in the mainstream media and on social media networks, the usual suspects tried to disseminate fake news of an alleged mass mobilization agai…
(2021-07-13). 'Outside interference' in Cuban affairs is 'unacceptable' & foreign nations should let Havana solve its own issues, Moscow warns. rt.com 
Any foreign interference in the affairs of Cuba is completely unacceptable, Russia has declared, after the Caribbean country erupted in protest over an ever-worsening economy and the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. | In a comment published on its website, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that Moscow is "closely following the development of the situation in and around Cuba." | "We consider outside interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, and any other destructive actions that would encourage destabilization of the situation on the island, t…
(2021-07-13). Let Cuba live! End the blockade now! workers.org 
July 12 — Today the capitalist media have turned their focus on anti-government demonstrators in Cuba, which the New York Times claimed to number in the "thousands," in a country of 11 million people. How many thousands, if there were really that many, isn't stated (nor were there any videos . . . |
(2021-07-13). End the damn US embargo on Cuba already. therealnews.com 
This story appeared in Progressives in the U.S. and around the world on Monday demanded the Biden administration lift the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and hundreds of sanctions on the country after thousands of Cubans protested the country's economic crisis, which has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. | The protests in Havana and s…
(2021-07-13). Cubans Demand Respect for Sovereignty & Self-Determination With Which They Decided to Build Socialism. orinocotribune.com 
Cuba demanded that its sovereignty and self-determination be respected, "with which we have decided to build socialism," said the president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, during a press conference offered this Monday, July 12, in a joint television and radio broadcast, joined by members of his government, regarding the situation in the country facing a US blockade and destabilization attempts that occurred over the weekend. | "The OAS (Organization of American States) has been empowered and trained to play its role in unconventional warfare. Why hasn't it been concerned about the negative effects of the bloc…
(2021-07-13). Cuba sees largest protests in decades as economy deteriorates and COVID-19 pandemic worsens. wsws.org Thousands protested in and near Havana and other cities throughout the country in the largest wave of demonstrations since 1994.
(2021-07-13). Stand with socialist Cuba! fightbacknews.org The working people of Cuba are mobilizing to defend the Cuban revolution and drive pro-U.S. reactionaries from the streets. The Cuban people are united in overcoming the costly U.S. economic embargo and subversion. Cubans steadfastly refuse to return to being a colony controlled by the U.S. Older Cubans remember when it was a playground for American millionaires and gangsters, with widespread poverty, abuse of workers and death an everyday part of life. | Back in 1959, the Cuban revolution shook the captains of Wall Street to their core. The rich have still have not gotten over it. With the working class and its…
(2021-07-13). Cuban president Díaz-Canel: Revolutionaries to the streets! mronline.org This speech provides crucial context and information being covered up by the corporate media in the United States. | July 13, 2021 | Newswire…
(2021-07-13). PSUV Expresses Solidarity with Cuba in Face of US Imperialist Aggression — Demonstration in Support of Cuba in Caracas. orinocotribune.com Caracas, July 12, 2021 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), in a public statement issued this Monday, July 12, expressed its solidarity with the people and government of Cuba, faced with a new onslaught by the US empire against the Cuban Revolution. | "We will accompany that brother people as another soldier to defeat the imperialist recolonizing plans with which they intend to overthrow the independence and sovereignty of our sister nation and establish, at an inopportune moment, the re-instatement of the nefarious Plan Condor that—violating democracy, inst…
(2021-07-13). The United States tries to take advantage of the price Cubans are paying for the blockade and the pandemic. peoplesdispatch.org Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages…
(2021-07-13). Boxeo cubano por continuar tradición ganadora en Tokio. cubadebate.cu Dar continuidad a una historia de 37 títulos será el gran reto del boxeo cubano en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020. øSerá posible repetir las tres coronaciones de Río 2016? El palmarés de los aspirantes apunta al sí. øSe vislumbran clásicos 'paseos' hacia el podio? Categóricamente no. øQuiénes son los principales favoritos? Julio y Andy.
(2021-07-13). The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti? counterpunch.org Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 and maintained its grip on power through the fraudulent election of Jovenel Moise in 2016, what Haitian activists refer to as electoral coup d'etats. Both elections were held under UN occupation and sponsored by the US government. As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton detoured from her trip to the Middle East at the height of the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt and personally intervened to put Martelly into power. Similarly,…
(2021-07-13). Talk World Radio: Brian Concannon: Haiti Has Had All the U.S. Help It Can Stand. warisacrime.org 
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Haiti with human rights lawyer and activist Brian Concannon. He is Executive Director of Project Blueprint, which promotes a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy …
(2021-07-13). The Miami-Haiti Connection: Another Mercenary, Another Day. globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-13). Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, but Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia? globalresearch.ca
(2021-07-13). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Nurses strikes loom in Canada, Dominican Republic; Miners continue strike in Mexico; and Health workers to begin strike in Bolivia…
(2021-07-13). Pennsylvania Town Battles To Shut Down Toxic Waste-To-Energy Plant. popularresistance.org So-called waste-to-energy plants are the waste management industry's way of describing toxic incinerators that burn trash and leave extremely toxic ash containing dioxin, mercury, arsenic and more. The Covanta incinerator in Chester, Pennsylvania, is the largest one of its kind in the U.S. Chester is a low-income community near Philadelphia, with a population of 33,000 people, 72 percent of whom are African American.
(2021-07-13). The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests. commondreams.org "If this oppressive law takes effect, it will decimate abortion access in Texas—and that's exactly what it is designed to do."
(2021-07-13). Cuba and HIV/AIDS: How to combat an epidemic. workers.org 
By àÜzra EL Boston This is an edited version of a talk given July 9 at a Workers World Party‚àíBoston meeting on the theme "Cops and Colonizers Out of Pride." Pride 2021, when we celebrated the 52nd anniversary of the righteous Stonewall Rebellion, also rang with inspiring calls from the . . . |
(2021-07-13). Stop privatizing Puerto Rico! workers.org 
The U.S.-imposed Fiscal Control Board continues to try to impose all possible neoliberal policies of privatization on the people and island of Puerto Rico. The people have continued to fight back, most recently against LUMA Energy, the private contractor that took over operation of Puerto Rico's electrical grid June 1. . . . |
(2021-07-13). Denuncia canciller cubano campaña de desestabilización contra Cuba (+ Video). cubadebate.cu "Es sabido que el Gobierno de Estados Unidos identificó el impacto del virus y la pandemia como una oportunidad para reforzar el bloqueo con motivaciones políticas y aplicar lo que llamó medidas de máxima presión para reforzar la agresión a nuestro país. "Ha sido un intento deliberado, cruel, oportunista de aprovechar las condiciones de una pandemia para intentar estrangular nuestra economía", denunció Rodríguez Parrilla.
(2021-07-13). Ahora la urgencia es la Patria. cubadebate.cu Busquemos urgente en cada página de nuestra historia, para recordar que detrás de la Revolución, detrás y debajo, en cada horcón que la sostiene, hay mucha sangre de mártir joven, y de toda edad. Como decía Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, para arrebatar a millones una Revolución tan valiosa y costosa, habrá que pasar por sobre el cadáver de millones.
(2021-07-13). Cuba presentará en la ONU informe sobre implementación de la Agenda 2030. cubadebate.cu En cumplimiento de sus responsabilidades y compromisos internacionales Cuba presentará este martes, en el Foro Político de Alto Nivel sobre Desarrollo Sostenible de la ONU, su primer informe nacional voluntario sobre la implementación de la Agenda 2030. Serán expuestos de manera virtual los resultados, acciones y desafíos de ese programa.
(2021-07-13). El tiempo: Chubascos y tormentas eléctricas en la región occidental. cubadebate.cu Amanecerá parcialmente nublado en la mitad oriental del país, con poca nubosidad en el resto. Desde el final de la mañana se nublará en localidades del interior y la costa norte occidental con algunos chubascos y tormentas eléctricas, que se extenderán al resto de la región occidental y hacia el interior y sur del centro.
(2021-07-13). Todo intento por perturbar la tranquilidad en Pinar del Río encontrará la respuesta del pueblo. cubadebate.cu Todo intento por perturbar la tranquilidad que siempre ha primado en Cuba encontrará una respuesta del pueblo revolucionario en las calles, idea impulsora de la concentración de un centenar de pinareños en el parque de la Independencia, de la ciudad capital de ese territorio. El reclamo sigue siendo exigir el cese del genocida bloqueo.
(2021-07-13). Del mundo para Matanzas: Médicos de la Henry Reeve. cubadebate.cu En la noche de este lunes, arribaron a la ciudad de Matanzas 182 nuevos profesionales de la salud que se sumarán a la lucha que libra este territorio contra la Covid-19.De ellos, 103 se encontraban cumpliendo colaboración médica en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, mientras que los otros 79 lo hacían en Azerbaiyán, como parte del contingente internacionalista Henry Reeve.
(2021-07-13). Devuelven libro que había sido tomado prestado de una biblioteca hace 300 años. cubadebate.cu El personal de la catedral de Sheffield (Reino Unido) recibió de vuelta un libro que, aparentemente, fue retirado de la biblioteca del templo hace más de 300 años. El volumen llegó en un paquete por correo de primera clase junto a una nota escrita por una mujer de Gales que explicaba que lo había encontrado entre las pertenencias de su abuela fallecida.
(2021-07-13). Raúl participa en reunión del Buró Político. cubadebate.cu En el día de ayer, el Buró Político del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba sostuvo una reunión presidida por el compañero Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, primer secretario del Comité Central y presidente de la República, la cual contó con la participación del General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz.
(2021-07-13). China apoya a Cuba y rechaza injerencia de E.E U.U en temas internos. cubadebate.cu China confirmó este martes su firme apoyo a Cuba en la protección de la estabilidad social, rechazó cualquier acto injerencista en sus asuntos internos y exigió a Estados Unidos levantar ya el bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero. Zhao Lijian, vocero del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, aseguró que su Gobierno respalda a la isla.
(2021-07-13). Hoy en la Mesa Redonda: Segunda parte de la comparecencia especial del presidente y miembros del gobierno. mesaredonda.cubadebate.cu La Mesa Redonda transmitirá hoy los análisis que sobre la situación epidemiológica del país, las nuevas cepas y la obtención de las vacunas cubanas hicieran ayer el Primer Secretario del Partido y Presidente de la República Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, el Ministro de Salud Pública y la Directora General del CIGB.
(2021-07-13). CTC condena manifestaciones de desorden en ciudades cubanas. cubadebate.cu La CTC rechazó las protestas ocurridas en varias ciudades cubanas como parte de la campaña mediática que se trata de imponer para deslegitimar al Gobierno. El movimiento sindical expresa su apoyo incondicional a la respuesta revolucionaria y ratifica el compromiso de los colectivos laborales de elevar la eficiencia en la producción.
(2021-07-13). En Haití sólo la primera frase se repite. globalizacion.ca El miércoles siete, el presidente de Haití fue muerto a tiros en su residencia, por una cuadrilla de exmilitares colombianos bien pertrechados, que arribados a través de la vecina República Dominicana. Ninguno de los anillos de seguridad del Presidente ofreció…
(2021-07-13). How the United States punishes Cuba's people. greenleft.org.au For six decades now, the United States has unsuccessfully sought to achieve regime change in Cuba, writes Ian Ellis-Jones.
(2021-07-13). Cuba y la compleja situación creada por EE.UU. globalizacion.ca El domingo 11 de julio fue un festival mediático contra Cuba. La prensa de Estados Unidos y las redes sociales controladas por ellos presentaron los conatos de presuntas protestas en San Antonio de los Baños y algunas otras localidades como…
(2021-07-13). Cuba, el bloqueo y la crisis. globalizacion.ca Washington cree que ha llegado el momento de intensificar sus ataques a cuanto gobierno díscolo ante sus órdenes existe en la región. En los últimos días hemos visto el sospechoso asesinato del presidente de Haití, con un modus operandi que…
(2021-07-13). Imagine a Nation Like This. zcomm.org Imagine a country so clueless that its population ranks "illegal immigration" as a more serious concern than the biggest issue of our or any time — the climate catastrophe…
(2021-07-13). Efficacy of 91.2% with two Doses of Soberana 02 and one of Soberana Plus. orinocotribune.com 
Results of clinical trials of this combination of Soberana candidate vaccines were announced yesterday at a meeting of the government's COVID-19 task force, led by First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez | The combination of two doses of the candidate vaccine Soberana 02 and one of Soberana Plus, administered in a 0-28-56 day regimen, was found to have an efficacy of 91.2 percent, in preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19, reported Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), at Thursday's meeting of the Cuban government's COVID-19 prevention and c…