Edited (2023-12-11). 2024 California Black History Month – Pan African Presence in Early California History. indybay.org Pan Africans migrated to California in significant numbers. By 1790, they made up nearly 20 percent of California's population, or one out of every five residents. More importantly, the concept of "race" had far less significance in California than in the United States. While European-born Spaniards controlled California society, Afro-Latinos and mestizos did manage to gain political and economic influence during the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history. African Cuban, Danish Jewish first elected Treasurer of San Francisco, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. and several other "hidden figure…

Rosa Miriam Elizalde (2023-12-11). Henry Kissinger y el apartheid. globalizacion.ca Henry Kissinger, que no descansará en paz, propuso en 1976 bombardear a La Habana, someter la ciudad a un bloqueo naval y minar los puertos de Cuba. Fantaseó con ello seriamente, según documentos desclasificados hace casi una década y publicados…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-12-11). Cuba frustra plan violento de terroristas radicados en EE.UU. telesurtv.net Ministerio del Interior detuvo e investiga a grupo de personas vinculadas a planes para realizar acciones terroristas y desestabilizadoras durante las celebraciones de fin de año…

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-12-11). Celebran juicio contra acusados de terrorismo en Cuba. telesurtv.net La petición fiscal fue de treinta, veinticinco y veinte años de privación de libertad para cada uno de los imputados.

Víctor Arrogante (2023-12-11). Cuba bloqueada, no embargada, por Estados Unidos. globalizacion.ca Por una abrumadora mayoría de 187 votos a favor, dos en contra, Estados Unidos e Israel, con la abstención de Ucrania, se aprobó por trigésimo primera vez la resolución que pide a EEUU acabar con el bloqueo de Cuba. | Año…

Edited (2023-12-10). 2024 California Black History Month – Pan African Presence in Early California History. indybay.org Pan Africans migrated to California in significant numbers. By 1790, they made up nearly 20 percent of California's population, or one out of every five residents. More importantly, the concept of "race" had far less significance in California than in the United States. While European-born Spaniards controlled California society, Afro-Latinos and mestizos did manage to gain political and economic influence during the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history. African Cuban, Danish Jewish first elected Treasurer of San Francisco, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. and several other "hidden figure…

In Defense of Liberation! (2023-12-10). This Dread and Depression is on Purpose! Don't Fall Victim! Don't Blame Yourselves! podcasters.spotify.com In this episode, I talk about some of the difficulties with remaining positive through a very dehumanizing, morbid, draining, and existential moment that we are all living through today. Whether we are Palestinian, Congolese, Nicaraguan, Cuban, Jamaican, Chinese, indigenous, or so-called American, we are all dealing with the extremes of capitalist, exploitation, extermination campaigns, mass, incarceration, the preponderance of social media, hyper individualism, mental health and climate crisis, and just in general, having to go to school or go to work every day while the world is blowing up around us. What do we…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-12-10). Cuba frustra plan violento de terroristas radicados en EE.UU. telesurtv.net Ministerio del Interior detuvo e investiga a grupo de personas vinculadas a planes para realizar acciones terroristas y desestabilizadoras durante las celebraciones de fin de año…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-12-10). Cuba rechaza veto cómplice de EE.UU. con crímenes de guerra de Israel. telesurtv.net Presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel cuestiona veto de Washington a propuesta de alto el fuego en la Franja de Gaza, tras 63 días de brutal agresión israelí.

midwesternmarx (2023-12-11). Essequibo and ExxonMobil: A Tale of Imperialism and Undermining of the Bolivarian Revolution By: Lema Maiwand. midwesternmarx.com As a collective, we need to seriously re-evaluate the contexts in which we use the terms "sovereignty", "self-determination", and "imperialism", especially when it's devoid of historical analysis/context and in service of imperialist designs. We are at the point of the news cycle (again), where every two years or so, there is global denunciation and vilification of Venezuela, and even stronger calls for military intervention in the country. F …

Staff (2023-12-11). Presidentes de Venezuela y Guyana abordarán cara a cara tema sobre el Esequibo. telesurtv.net Dirigentes de la Celac y el Caricom han evaluado "la necesidad urgente de reducir la escalada del conflicto e instituir un diálogo apropiado cara a cara" entre los presidentes.

Staff (2023-12-10). Essequibo Dispute: Venezuela and Guyana Agree on Presidential Meeting. orinocotribune.com

Stephen Gibbs (2023-12-10). Leaders of Venezuela and Guyana to meet amid border dispute. america.cgtn.com The leaders of Venezuela and Guyana have agreed to face-to-face talks this week amid a long-running border dispute that's taken on newfound urgency.

teleSUR, JCM, JDO (2023-12-10). Venezuela y Guyana se reunirán sin interferencia de actores externos. telesurtv.net La reunión tendrá lugar el próximo 14 de diciembre, en San Vicente y las Granadinas, a las 10H00 hora local. Fue convenida por ambos países en el seno de la Celac.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-12-10). Guyana y ExxonMobil tendrán que sentarse a dialogar con Venezuela. telesurtv.net Presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reivindica el Acuerdo de Ginebra como medio para solucionar el conflicto.

ecsorinoco (2023-12-11). Venezuela's Foreign Minister Thanks CELAC and CARICOM for Supporting Dialogue with Guyana. orinocotribune.com CELAC and CARICOM helped to bring about the high-level meeting between the presidents of Venezuela and Guyana on December 14. | Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, thanked the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for the efforts these organizations took to promote dialogue between Venezuela and Guyana. | The chancellor emphasized that the intervention of both multilateral bodies made possible the high-level meeting to be held by presidents Nicolás Maduro and Irfaan Ali next Thursday, December 14, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. | In a m…

Dan La Botz (2023-12-11). Could the U.S. Become Involved in a War Between Venezuela and Guyana? fpif.org The United States has taken the first steps in becoming involved in a potential war between Venezuela and Guyana. President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela is claiming the territory of the oil-rich Essequibo region of neighboring Guyana, a claim recently backed by a referendum. Maduro then produced a new Venezuelan map that includes Essequibo as a new state. A 1996 agreement between the two countries gives the United Nations International Court of Justice the power to resolve disputes, but Maduro has rejected its involvement. All of this is seen as a prelude to military action to take over the province and its petrol…

krish-rad_ind (2023-12-11). Essequibo Dispute: Venezuela and Guyana Agree on Presidential Meeting. orinocotribune.com

latintimes (2023-12-11). Guyana, Venezuela Presidents To Meet Thursday On Border Row. latintimes.com Tension has soared over Essequibo, which has historically been controlled by Guyana, since Maduro's government held a controversial referendum last weekend in which 95 percent of voters supported declaring Venezuela its rightful owner, according to official results.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-12-11). Dominican farmers demand more investment in rural areas. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, Dec 11 ( Prensa Latina) Hundreds of small and medium Dominican agricultural producers demanded the government to increase investment in rural areas to prevent further migration to the big cities.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-12-11). Dominican Rep asks island countries to have access to funds at COP 28. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, Dec 11 ( Prensa Latina) The Dominican Republic demanded to the international community, at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP28), that developing countries have access to funds to face natural disasters, the Presidency's website published today.