Daily Archives: June 7, 2023

2023-06-07: News Headlines

Ju-Hyun Park (2023-06-07). US activists are campaigning to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List. therealnews.com To most countries, particularly fellow nations in the Global South, Cuba is a sovereign nation recognized for its leadership in healthcare, diplomacy, and human development. The US government, however, has a different, and quite unique, view: Officially, Cuba is categorized as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism." | Only four countries on earth are currently designated by the US as State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSTs): Iran, Syria, Cuba, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. | NNOC plans to follow up with an action in Washington, DC, on June 25, and are calling on supporters to join a rally in front of the Wh…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-07). Santiago de Cuba: women playwrights make a difference. plenglish.com Santiago de Cuba, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) Women playwrights, directors and actresses from several countries give life here to the IX International Festival The Writing of the Difference which will last until Sunday 11.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-07). Call in Chile to extend a hand of solidarity to Cuba. plenglish.com Santiago de Chile, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) Chilean internationalists, Cuban residents, solidarity members and friends of the Revolution are participating in a campaign to support Cuba on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Cuartel Moncada.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-06-07). Cuban authorities register 24 new Covid-19 cases. plenglish.com According to the closing report of June 6 at midnight, 34 medical discharges were granted and the number of recoveries reached 1,105,709. | Since the onset of the pandemic, in March 2020, there have been 1,114,407 Covid-19 cases. | The authorities detail that there are 109 Covid-19 patients across the country, while the number of deaths remains at 8,530. | A 90.8 percent of the Cuban population is fully vaccinated, whereas 8,745,159 people have booster doses.

teleSUR (2023-06-07). Iranian President to Travel to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. telesurenglish.net Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will travel next week to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba to strengthen relations with these Latin American countries. | RELATED: | Accompanied by a high-ranking delegation, Raisi will leave Tehran on Sunday. His trip aims to promote economic, political and scientific cooperation. He is also expected to meet with local businessmen and activists. | This will be Raisí's first trip to Latin America since he took office in August 20…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-07). Scientific importance of Agrosciences 2023 highlighted. plenglish.com Matanzas, Cuba, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) The opportunity to unify different personalities and specialties at the Fifth International Congress of Agricultural Sciences (Agrociencias 2023) is of great scientific value, highlighted the speaker from Mexico Marisol Taja.


Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-07). Silvio Rodríguez closed the Isla Verde festival with pure music. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez closed the First Isla Verde Caribbean Film and Environment Festival, a concert that still resounds on the southern Isla de la Juventud.

teleSUR odr (2023-06-07). Cuba envía condolencias a Haití tras terremoto. telesurtv.net El sismo se registró a las 05H11 (hora local) con una magnitud de 4,9.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-06-07). Cuba y Rusia fortalecen cooperación científica y educativa. telesurtv.net La llegada del primer ministro cubano fue antecedida por la visita de los ministros de Eduación y Eduación Superior, quienes firmaron acuerdos bilaterales con Moscú.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-07). Nancy Morejón at Cuban Film Festival in France. plenglish.com Paris, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) The Cuba Cooperation France Association (CubaCoop) announced on Wednesday that renowned Cuban poet Nancy Morejón accepted to be the godmother of the first Cuban Film Festival to take place in the Vitry-sur-Seine commune in the Paris region.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-07). Belgian parliamentarians recognize Cuba's resistance to the blockade. plenglish.com Brussels, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) The members of the Belgian House of Representatives André Flahaut and Raoul Hedebouw praised Cuba's resistance and rejected the blockade imposed by the United States.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-06-07). Cambodia supports Cuba's presidency in G-77 + China. plenglish.com Phnom Penh, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia, Chum Sounry, reiterated the Kingdom's support for the Cuban presidency of the Group of 77 + China.


Jon Wilson (2023-06-06). Americans conduct an eye-opening visit to Cuba. peoplesworld.org A group of seven Americans called the Hello Comrade Cuba Delegation was a diverse group of visitors to that country recently that went to exchange ideas with Cuban people and to lend support to their struggle to end the U.S. embargo against their country. In meetings leading up to their departure from the U.S., the …

teleSUR (2023-06-06). Cuban PM Marrero Arrives in Russia. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero arrived in Moscow for an official visit that will last until June 17. | RELATED: | "We arrived in the Russian Federation on an official visit to this sister nation in order to expand and consolidate our bilateral relations, which have been maintained uninterruptedly from 1960 to the present," he said. | PM Marrero will participate in the council of heads of governm…

midwesternmarx (2023-06-06). How "peaceful protests" in Nicaragua became an attempted coup By: John Perry, Daniel Kovalik. midwesternmarx.com Source: "Nicaragua: Guarimbas no 'carburan,'" Cuba, Isla Mía blog. The "groundwork for insurrection" in Nicaragua was laid down months and years before the coup attempt began, as our first article explained. But the coup could only succeed if it mobilized sufficient people into demanding that President Daniel Ortega should resign. How was this to be done, with polls showing his government had some 80% support in a country that had enjoyed se …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-06). Cuban FM mourns deaths for natural disasters in Haiti. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Tuesday mourned the deaths and damage caused by a life-threatening quake and pelting rains recently occurred in Haiti.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-06). France: Solidarity meeting in solidarity with poet Nancy Morejón. plenglish.com Paris, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban embassy in France on Tuesday hosted a meeting with the renowned poet Nancy Morejon in order to express their strong support against the decision made by the Paris Poetry Market to withdraw her from the honorary presidency given foreign pressures.

submedia.tv (2023-06-07). System Fail #22: Bwa Kale Movement in Haiti. itsgoingdown.org subMedia.Tv returns with a new episode of System Fail, featuring a look at the rise Bwa Kale movement in Haiti. This episode of System Fail highlights the tensions between Indigenous communities and the settler colonial state in Brazil. The lower house of Brazil's congress passed a bill, PL 490, which aims to open up Indigenous…

Jon Wilson (2023-06-06). Americans conduct an eye-opening visit to Cuba. peoplesworld.org A group of seven Americans called the Hello Comrade Cuba Delegation was a diverse group of visitors to that country recently that went to exchange ideas with Cuban people and to lend support to their struggle to end the U.S. embargo against their country. In meetings leading up to their departure from the U.S., the …

teleSUR (2023-06-06). Cuban PM Marrero Arrives in Russia. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero arrived in Moscow for an official visit that will last until June 17. | RELATED: | "We arrived in the Russian Federation on an official visit to this sister nation in order to expand and consolidate our bilateral relations, which have been maintained uninterruptedly from 1960 to the present," he said. | PM Marrero will participate in the council of heads of governm…

midwesternmarx (2023-06-06). How "peaceful protests" in Nicaragua became an attempted coup By: John Perry, Daniel Kovalik. midwesternmarx.com Source: "Nicaragua: Guarimbas no 'carburan,'" Cuba, Isla Mía blog. The "groundwork for insurrection" in Nicaragua was laid down months and years before the coup attempt began, as our first article explained. But the coup could only succeed if it mobilized sufficient people into demanding that President Daniel Ortega should resign. How was this to be done, with polls showing his government had some 80% support in a country that had enjoyed se …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-06). Cuban FM mourns deaths for natural disasters in Haiti. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Tuesday mourned the deaths and damage caused by a life-threatening quake and pelting rains recently occurred in Haiti.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-06). France: Solidarity meeting in solidarity with poet Nancy Morejón. plenglish.com Paris, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban embassy in France on Tuesday hosted a meeting with the renowned poet Nancy Morejon in order to express their strong support against the decision made by the Paris Poetry Market to withdraw her from the honorary presidency given foreign pressures.

submedia.tv (2023-06-07). System Fail #22: Bwa Kale Movement in Haiti. itsgoingdown.org subMedia.Tv returns with a new episode of System Fail, featuring a look at the rise Bwa Kale movement in Haiti. This episode of System Fail highlights the tensions between Indigenous communities and the settler colonial state in Brazil. The lower house of Brazil's congress passed a bill, PL 490, which aims to open up Indigenous…

Danny Shaw, Truthout. (2023-06-07). US Considers Reoccupying Haiti. popularresistance.org The United States government is spearheading an effort to reinvade and reoccupy Haiti. On May 4, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, led the latest diplomatic anti-Haitian assault traveling to Brasilia to try to convince the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to again lead the "multilateral effort." | Bogged down in a proxy war in Ukraine to the tune of $113 billion, the Biden administration has been searching for a Caribbean Community and Common Market nation or another ally to deputize to carry out the unpopular mission. Under the guise of humanitarianism, and as a potential…

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-06-07). Elevan a 51 cifra de muertos por las lluvias en Haití. telesurtv.net El paso de las lluvias ha dejado hasta el momento18 desaparecidos y 140 heridos.

teleSUR (2023-06-06). Floods In Haiti Leave 51 Dead. telesurenglish.net The country's Civil Protection Directorate (DPC) reported Tuesday that at least 51 dead and 140 injured as a result of heavy rainfall recorded in Haiti in recent days. | RELATED: | According to authorities, floods and landslides have affected seven of Haiti's ten departments, affecting 39,458 families. They reported the destruction of at least 820 houses, damage to 1,625, and flooding of 31,591. | In addition to heavy rains, a 4.9…

Staff (2023-06-06). Headlines for June 6, 2023. democracynow.org Ukraine and Russia Blame One Another as Dam Breach Forces Mass Evacuations Along Dnipro River, Torrential Rains Trigger Flooding and Landslides in Haiti, Killing at Least 42, Firefighters Battle Massive Blazes in Canada's Nova Scotia Province, Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Surge to Highest Levels in 4 Million Years, China Accuses U.S. Military of "Provocative" Actions , U.S. Defense Secretary Pledges Military Cooperation with India to Counter China, Palestinian Toddler Shot in Head by Israeli Soldiers Dies of Injuries, Blinken Promotes Saudi-Israeli Ties in AIPAC Speech, Atlanta City Council Vote…

Editor (2023-06-06). As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation Is the Root Problem. scheerpost.com

Eric A. Gordon (2023-06-06). Capoeira-based action musical tells of the escaped slave republic Palmares. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES — These are woke times in the theater! This past weekend I saw a play about the women of the French Revolution including a Haitian Marianne demanding the end of slavery in the colonies and the independence of Saint-Domingue. And the next night (June 3) a musical drama about the Republic of Palmares …

Staff (2023-06-07). Headlines for June 7, 2023. democracynow.org Air Quality Alerts Issued as Thick Smoke Blankets Large Swaths of U.S. and Canada, Heat Waves Stifle Puerto Rico, South Asia; Bangladesh Closes Schools Amid Ongoing Power Cuts, Arctic Summers Could Be Ice-Free by Next Decade, Activists Shut Down Manchin Talk at D.C. Event over Climate Destruction, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Ukraine Dam Collapse Wreaks Havoc Along Dnipro River as Thousands Forced to Evacuate, Mexico's AMLO Claims Major Win After His Party Clinches Mexico's Governorship, Fresh Protests Take Over French Streets in Hopes of Reviving Campaign Against Retirement Reform, Blinken Tightens Ties…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-06). Puerto Rico sues 20 U.S. companies for PFAS contamination. plenglish.com San Juan, Jun 6 (Prensa Latina) The Puerto Rican government, on behalf of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), has filed a lawsuit against at least 20 companies for contamination of the island ¥s natural resources with toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which threaten the environment and people.

Salim Lamrani (2023-06-07). Argentina's President Gabriel Boric, Venezuela and the Question of Human Rights. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-07). Colombia's opposition and right-wing media intensifies destabilization campaign against Gustavo Petro government. peoplesdispatch.org Following a scandal involving the former chief of staff Laura Sarabia and former ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti, Colombia's right-wing forces have increased attacks against the Petro government. Trade unions and progressive sectors are rallying to the defense of the government…

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-06-07). Venezuela y Arabia Saudita realizarán segunda Comisión Mixta. telesurtv.net El intercambio se realizará en la capital del país árabe, Riad, y se ha delineado un plan de trabajo para unir aún más a ambos pueblos".

teleSUR, MER (2023-06-07). Presidente venezolano destaca éxito de agenda de trabajo internacional. telesurtv.net El mandatario venezolano aseveró que siguen firmes en la unión y cooperación del nuevo mundo.

Salim Lamrani (2023-06-06). Gabriel Boric, Venezuela y la cuestión de los derechos humanos. globalizacion.ca Desde su entronización a la Presidencia de Brasil en enero de 2023, Lula da Silva se ha esforzado por relanzar el proceso de cooperación regional en un continente fragmentado y dividido.[1] | Con esta óptica organizó la Cumbre de Sudamérica que…

Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-06-06). Gold Mine Collapse Leaves Several Dead in Southern Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com Local authorities said that the killed miners were operating in a site that had been shut down a long time ago.

teleSUR (2023-06-06). Venezuela-Saudi Arabia Mixed Commission to Be Held in Q4 2023. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil announced that his country and Saudi Arabia will hold a second High Level Mixed Commission in the last quarter of 2023, when both nations celebrate 71 years of diplomatic relations. | RELATED: | This event will take place in the capital city Riyadh, where the technical teams from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia will discuss a "work plan to further unite both peoples," he poin…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-06). South America Is Back, and Venezuela Is Helping Lead the Way. orinocotribune.com By William Serafino — Jun 4, 2023 | The recent summit of South American presidents in Brasilia, convened by President Lula Da Silva, was a practical reflection of the political-electoral shift towards the progressive camp in the region. Venezuela has been a key player in this process. | Although this change of geopolitical orbit has yet to guarantee possibility in the medium term, it has already produced an image in the Brazilian capital signaling a change in the times. | On a symbolic level, the summit also represents the official end to a cycle of fragmentation, bitter political dispute, and planned att…

Misión Verdad (2023-06-06). Venezuela: Most Opposition Parties to Accept Support from CNE for Primaries. orinocotribune.com Although most opposition parties support receiving technical assistance from the National Electoral Council (CNE), there are several parties that refuse to allow the electoral institution to participate. The parties that rejected technical assistance are Vente Venezuela [Come Venezuela], led by María Corina Machado; Citizen Meeting, of Delsa Solórzano; La Causa R, led by Andrés Velásquez; and Project Venezuela. It remains to be seen if they will maintain their unitary position or launch their candidacy outside the Unitary Platform opposition coalition. | This Monday, June 5, the president of the National Primary…

City of Sunnyvale (2023-06-07). Saturday 6/24: EV Ride and Drive. indybay.org Baylands Park, 999 E. Caribbean Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089…

Jorge Marchini (2023-06-06). América Latina y el Caribe: La deuda omnipresente y la necesidad de encontrar otro camino. globalizacion.ca La prensa de todo el mundo, incluyendo la de nuestro país, ha dedicado enorme atención a la controversia en torno al requerimiento de aceptación por parte del Congreso de Estados Unidos para que la deuda pública norteamericana pueda superar el…

teleSUR, MER (2023-06-07). Sigue alerta amarilla en seis provincias dominicanas por vaguada. telesurtv.net El COE precisó que las provincias en alerta amarilla son: Valverde, Santiago Rodríguez, Dajabón, Puerto Plata, Monte Cristi y Santiago.

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