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2023-06-13: News Headlines

Editor (2023-06-13). US Tells Another Bedtime Story To Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba. scheerpost.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-13). Iranian president visits Latin American countries in an attempt to strengthen multipolar world order. peoplesdispatch.org Ebrahim Raisi is on a five-day state visit to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua — Latin American countries that have been similarly affected by stringent US sanctions and hegemonic politics…

Eli Smith (2023-06-13). The Fuel Shortages in Cuba Are Worse Than You Think. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR, JGN (2023-06-13). Cuba califica como falsas declaraciones de secretario de Estado de EE.UU. telesurtv.net "La posición de Cuba sobre este tema es clara y categórica: esas declaraciones carecen de sustento", externó el canciller Bruno Rodríguez.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-06-13). Intensas lluvias en Cuba dejan al menos seis personas fallecidas. telesurtv.net El mandatario indicó que entre las tareas inmediatas, tras la etapa de recuperación, está estudiar todo lo que pasó y actualizar los planes de reducción de desastres.


teleSUR (2023-06-13). Cuba Does Not Host a Chinese Espionage Center, FM Stresses. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Cuba described the claims of the U.S. government regarding the presence of a Chinese espionage center on the island as a new disinformation operation. | RELATED: | "The statements made by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the presence of a Chinese spy base in Cuba are false… Our position on this matter is clear and categorical… Blinken's statements 'lack evidence'," Foreign Affairs M…

Editor (2023-06-12). Is Washington seeking to fabricate a casus belli against Cuba? mronline.org According to the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, which had the "honor" of putting the lie into circulation, there is an agreement between Cuba and China, in military matters, for the installation of an alleged espionage base.

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-12). China Denies Allegations That It's Spying on the US from Cuba. news.antiwar.com The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday denied allegations that China was spying on the US from Cuba and criticized the conflicting information coming from the US government and media outlets. The Wall Street Journal first reported last week that Beijing and Havana reached an agreement "in principle" on establishing a Chinese spy facility in Cuba. …

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-12). Cuba recorded 146.2 millimeters of rainfall in 10 days. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) The National Institute of Hydraulic Resources reported that in 10 days Cuba accumulated rainfalls of 146.2 millimeters (mm), 75% of the historical average for June.

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2023-06-12). Accusations about Chinese 'spy base' in Cuba aim to accelerate Cold War. peoplesworld.org The Wall Street Journal reported on June 8 that Cuba would receive "several billion" dollars in return for China building a "spy base" in Cuba. The story mentions an "electronic eavesdropping" facility that would represent "a brash new geopolitical challenge by Beijing to the U.S." Other news platforms offered their own versions of the story. …


Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-12). Santiago de Cuba, "The Rainy Salton" plenglish.com Santiago de Cuba, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) The return of El Salton waterfall, in the municipality of Tercer Frente (3rd Front), is today one of the few good news left by the heavy rains of the last days in the province of Santiago de Cuba.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-06-13). Premier haitiano descarta posibilidad de otro acuerdo electoral. telesurtv.net Haití vive una agudización de la crisis política desde el asesinato en julio de 2021 del entonces presidente Jovenel Moïse.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-12). Haiti: Constructive dialogue discouraged without addressing murder. plenglish.com Port-au-Prince, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) Former Haitian Foreign Minister Claude Joseph dismissed that a constructive dialogue could solve the national crisis without first addressing the assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse, he said during the meeting organized by Caricom that concludes today in Jamaica.

teleSUR (2023-06-12). Five Police Officers Are Violently Killed Every Month in Haiti. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) published a report showing that 29 police officers died violently in the first half of 2023. | RELATED: | Published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the National Police, this report also shows that at least 58 police officers were shot and killed since June 2022. | Many of them were kidnapped by armed gangs that control a significant part of the Haiti…

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-12). Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid. popularresistance.org

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-12). Santiago de Cuba, "The Rainy Salton" plenglish.com Santiago de Cuba, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) The return of El Salton waterfall, in the municipality of Tercer Frente (3rd Front), is today one of the few good news left by the heavy rains of the last days in the province of Santiago de Cuba.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-06-13). Premier haitiano descarta posibilidad de otro acuerdo electoral. telesurtv.net Haití vive una agudización de la crisis política desde el asesinato en julio de 2021 del entonces presidente Jovenel Moïse.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-12). Haiti: Constructive dialogue discouraged without addressing murder. plenglish.com Port-au-Prince, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) Former Haitian Foreign Minister Claude Joseph dismissed that a constructive dialogue could solve the national crisis without first addressing the assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse, he said during the meeting organized by Caricom that concludes today in Jamaica.

teleSUR (2023-06-12). Five Police Officers Are Violently Killed Every Month in Haiti. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) published a report showing that 29 police officers died violently in the first half of 2023. | RELATED: | Published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the National Police, this report also shows that at least 58 police officers were shot and killed since June 2022. | Many of them were kidnapped by armed gangs that control a significant part of the Haiti…

krish-rad_ind (2023-06-12). Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid. popularresistance.org

Cira Pascual Marquina (2023-06-13). Chávez, UNASUR and the end of unipolarity: A conversation with Judith Valencia. mronline.org The Venezuelan researcher offers her reflections on Chávez's geopolitics and the reactivation of the Union of South American Nations.

Staff (2023-06-13). President Maduro Receives Iran's Ebrahim Raisi in Caracas. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro received Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi with state honors at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. | With the highest military honors and a mounted escort from the Presidential Honor Guard hussars, Raisi arrived on Monday, June 12, at Miraflores Palace. He was welcomed with a handshake from President Maduro, who was waiting for Raisi accompanied by several members of the Venezuelan cabinet. | Earlier, President Raisi laid flowers before Liberator Simón Bolívar's tomb in the National Pantheon, where he signed the guest book of prominent figures and world dignitaries. | Venezuela is the…

teleSUR, JCM (2023-06-13). Presidente de Irán llega a Venezuela para iniciar gira por Latinoamérica. telesurtv.net El mandatario persa se reunirá con su par venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, con quien tiene previsto firmar varios acuerdos bilaterales.

teleSUR, MER (2023-06-13). Presidente de Venezuela sostiene encuentro con su homólogo de Irán. telesurtv.net Esta es la primera visita que realiza el mandatario iraní a Latinoamérica desde que asumió el cargo en agosto de 2021.

teleSUR, MER (2023-06-13). Presidente de Venezuela rechaza declaraciones de Donald Trump. telesurtv.net El mandatario aseveró que Trump declaró su culpabilidad en crímenes de lesa humanidad contra el pueblo de Venezuela.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-12). Venezuela and Iran to expand strategic ties. plenglish.com Caracas, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) With the aim of expanding strategic ties in different areas with Venezuela, the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, arrived today in Caracas, accompanied by the first lady, Jamileh-Sadat Alamolhoda.

José Luis Granados Ceja (2023-06-12). ICC Prosecutor Opens 'Technical Assistance Office' in Venezuela Amid Human Rights Probe. venezuelanalysis.com President Maduro expressed hope that collaboration with the ICC would help correct the record about human rights in Venezuela.

Staff (2023-06-12). Former US President Donald Trump Confesses to Planned Theft of Venezuela's Oil, Venezuelan Officials React. orinocotribune.com Responding to former United States President Donald Trump's recent confession regarding the theft of Venezuela's oil during his term, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil reiterated that Trump's ambitions to seize resources and assets belonging to the Venezuelan people had been endorsed by his lackeys inside Venezuela. | Trump's confession emerged during a speech given this Saturday, June 10, in North Carolina, where the former president postured to the audience: "How about we're buying oil from Venezuela? When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would've taken it over; we would have gotten all that oil;…

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2023-06-12: News Headlines

teleSUR, rzr, JCM (2023-06-12). Cuba mantiene alerta ante lluvias en varias provincias del país. telesurtv.net El Estado Mayor de la Defensa Civil indicó intensificar las medidas de protección de vidas humanas y recursos materiales frente al posible incremento de las precipitaciones.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-06-12). Presidente Díaz-Canel se solidariza con damnificados por lluvias. telesurtv.net El mandatario cubano reconoció el valor y organización de los dirigentes e instituciones que enfrentan estos eventos hidrometeorológicos.

Orinoco Tribune. (2023-06-11). June 18 Webinar: ALBA-TCP, First Fair Trade Agreement In The World. popularresistance.org The Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee is inviting everyone to a webinar organized by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, with the participation of high-level officials from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, to expose the attacks that successive US administrations have unsuccessfully launched over the years to destroy the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas — Peoples Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP). | The speakers will be: from Cuba, Héctor Igarza Cabrera, ambassador to Canada; from Venezuela, Carlos Ron, Venezuela's deputy foreign affairs minister for North America; and from Nicaragua, Minister of Commerce Jesús B…

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-11). Grand Master says "Chess enjoys good health in Cuba" plenglish.com The Cuban chess player talked to Prensa Latina prior to her participation in a chess simultaneous event that took place in this capital as a tribute to the 95th anniversary of the birth of Ernesto Guevara, passionate and promoter of that sport in Cuba. | He was accompanied in the simultaneous by Uruguayan International Master Bernardo Roselli, for whom Che Guevara could have reached an Elo of 2,300 points and the rank of Master of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). | Pita directs in his country the Center of Chess Studies of the University of Sport, and considers that the Cuban science game is "on good f…


Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-11). Venezuela ratified its support to dialogue process in Colombia. plenglish.com Caracas, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ratified his unrestricted support to the peace talks that are advancing today in Colombia, after the agreements reached in Cuba between the Government and the National Liberation Army (ELN).

teleSUR, JCM (2023-06-11). Defensa de EE.UU. niega informe sobre base china de espionaje en Cuba. telesurtv.net El secretario de prensa del Pentágono, general Pat Ryder calificó un informe del Wall Street Journal sobre el aparente acuerdo como inexacto.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-06-12). Inicia en Jamaica consulta para solucionar crisis en Haití. telesurtv.net Participan representantes del espectro político haitiano y de naciones caribeñas. Se promueve el diálogo y el consenso sin injerencia.

JANET (2023-06-11). Growing mass anger in Haiti. iacenter.org By G. Dunkel June 9, 2023 Millions of Haitians regularly don't get enough to eat. They have access only to dirty, contaminated water. The turmoil of their struggle for survival has resulted in more than 1,630 people killed, wounded or kidnapped in the first three months of 2023, according to the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti. Schools were closed for months. When they opened, kids had to walk for hours at a quick pace to get to school on time, since the high price of fuel has made public transportation unaffordable for their parents. Hospitals and clinics often close when their staff is kidnapped or ha…


teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-06-11). Reportan 743 decesos por cólera en Haití desde octubre pasado. telesurtv.net Organización Mundial de la Salud manifiesta su preocupación ante el ritmo que han alcanzado los contagios de cólera en la nación caribeña.

Katherine Rapin, Next City. (2023-06-11). Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid. popularresistance.org For two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Lucy's Pizza was the only restaurant open in the central mountain town of Adjuntas. The town's 18,000 residents, like those on the rest of the island, were entirely without electricity. | "No one has power, you can't get gas, it's difficult to make food, so everyone came here to eat," says owner Gustavo Irizarry. "The line," he gestured down the block along the town's central plaza, "endless." | Using a diesel generator, Lucy's was running at about 75% capacity. The generator was loud, emitted dangerous fumes and wasn't always reliable.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-06-12). Antigua y Barbuda rechaza dichos de Trump sobre Venezuela. telesurtv.net El expresidente de Estados Unidos (EE.UU.), Donald Trump, confensó querer apoderarse del petróleo de Venezuela durante su mandato.

teleSUR, SH (2023-06-12). Presidente iraní comienza en Venezuela su gira por Latinoamérica. telesurtv.net Antes de iniciar su visita a América Latina, Ebrahim Raisí, afirmó que esta gira supondrá "un punto de inflexión" en la profundización de sus lazos.

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-06-11). Reportan 743 decesos por cólera en Haití desde octubre pasado. telesurtv.net Organización Mundial de la Salud manifiesta su preocupación ante el ritmo que han alcanzado los contagios de cólera en la nación caribeña.

Katherine Rapin, Next City. (2023-06-11). Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid. popularresistance.org For two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, Lucy's Pizza was the only restaurant open in the central mountain town of Adjuntas. The town's 18,000 residents, like those on the rest of the island, were entirely without electricity. | "No one has power, you can't get gas, it's difficult to make food, so everyone came here to eat," says owner Gustavo Irizarry. "The line," he gestured down the block along the town's central plaza, "endless." | Using a diesel generator, Lucy's was running at about 75% capacity. The generator was loud, emitted dangerous fumes and wasn't always reliable.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-06-12). Antigua y Barbuda rechaza dichos de Trump sobre Venezuela. telesurtv.net El expresidente de Estados Unidos (EE.UU.), Donald Trump, confensó querer apoderarse del petróleo de Venezuela durante su mandato.

teleSUR, SH (2023-06-12). Presidente iraní comienza en Venezuela su gira por Latinoamérica. telesurtv.net Antes de iniciar su visita a América Latina, Ebrahim Raisí, afirmó que esta gira supondrá "un punto de inflexión" en la profundización de sus lazos.

JANET (2023-06-11). Erdogan: a ship that could continue to sail in a sea of contradictions. iacenter.org By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein June 10, 2023 The author of this article, published June 2 on lapluma.net, is a former Venezuelan military officer and diplomat and current international analyst. Twitter: @sergioro0701. Translation: John Catalinotto. The coalition that supported President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the presidential elections of Türkiye held on May 28. Although Erdogan's victory in this second round was expected, the broad support his coalition received in the parliamentary elections that accompanied the first round on May 14 came as a surprise. Despite the devastation and death caused by the Feb…

Jonathan Ng (2023-06-11). US Economic War on Venezuela Has Rewarded Corruption and Undermined Democracy. truthout.org This spring, the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó delivered a solemn address to the international press in Miami, Florida. Claiming his life was in danger, Guaidó announced that he fled Venezuela to escape persecution and rally the world against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. In bold strokes, he argued that Maduro constitutes a threat to "the entire world… |

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-11). Yván Gil told Donald Trump US will not be able to beat Venezuela. plenglish.com Caracas, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) Today in Caracas, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, assured that the United States could not and will not be able to beat Venezuela.

Yasiel Betancourt Clavijo (2023-06-11). El Salvador will be ready for the Games, Bukele says. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jun 11 (Prensa Latina) President Nayib Bukele said today in a tweet that El Salvador will be ready for the 24th Central American and Caribbean Sports Games.

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