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Series
- Cuba's Reasons
- Cuban Five
- El Paso Diary
The El Paso Diary is written by José Pertierra--an attorney who represents the government of Venezuela in its request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles. Pertierra´s journals describe the testimony, evidence, legal skirmishes, quirks and follies of this very historic trial that features for the first time the close collaboration of the United States government with Cuban authorities to prosecute an ex CIA agent who is one of the masterminds of the fifty-year old dirty war against Cuba.
Authors
- Bernie Dwyer
- Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
- Deisy Francis Mexidor
- Fidel Castro Ruz
- José Pertierra
- Raúl Castro Ruz
- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
- Amy Goodman
- Arleen Rodríguez Derivet
- Frei Betto
- Hugo Chávez Frías
- Josh R. Nelson
- Juan Gelman
- Luis Rumbaut
- Michael Moore
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Noam Chomsky
- Reinaldo Taladrid Herrero
- Richard Gott
- Tom Hayden
Articles of Elections
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Chapeando: Red Florida
I like nothing less than starting our podcast with what is happening across the street, but today everything revolves around something that cannot be underestimated due to the weight it has in international politics. And by the sign it bears. We are talking, of course, about the mid-term elections, held this Tuesday in the United States, to elect 36 governors and renew the House and a third of the Senate. At the level of the Union, the red tide so announced by the Republicans, which did take place in nearby Florida, the base of the political forces that support the Cuban counterrevolutionary industry, remained wishful thinking.
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Republicans ask Trump to postpone the launch of his candidacy until 2024
After the bluff of the expected “red tide”, due to the color with which the Republican Party is assigned, Trump ran into the first limits. Tuesday’s disappointing results for the GOP raised questions about Trump’s appeal and the future of a party that fully supported him. In this way, Trump seems to have found a brake on his future plans, when the elections have also given a new impetus to his main rival within the party, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Díaz-Canel spoke with the president-elect of Brazil: Always count on Cuba
“Last night, with the emotion of victory, I spoke with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. I sent him hugs from Raúl, from the Cuban people and government, and told him: ‘Your victory belongs to Brazil and Latin America and the Caribbean, to integration and peace. Always count on Cuba,’” President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote on his Twitter account. After enduring lawfare, jail and persecution, Lula da Silva was once again elected president in Brazil. He won this Sunday in the ballot, of the presidential elections, by obtaining 50.90% of the votes.
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Party in Brazil: Lula is president again
After enduring lawfare, prison and persecution, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, he was again elected president in Brazil. At 00:18 (local time) this Monday, October 31, the Superior Electoral Court of Brazil confirmed on its website the closure of the count in one hundred percent of the 472,075 polling stations open in the country for the second round of the elections in which the presidency was defined. The elected president, the leader of the Workers’ Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, obtained 50.90% of the votes (60,345,999),
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More than 20 million Americans voted early in midterm elections scheduled for November
More than 20.7 million people cast their early vote in the midterm elections in the United States, a news source disclosed today. Until last Sunday, more than two million 800 voters delivered their ballots in Texas, two million 600 thousand did the same in Florida, and just over two million were counted in California, limited the report of the CNN chain that cites data from Edison Research and Catalyst. Nearly 1.6 million ballots were also cast in Georgia, and North Carolina became the fifth-highest turnout state with more than 1 million ballots cast.
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Giorgia Meloni handed over the post of Prime Minister of Italy today
During a solemn act known as the Bell Ceremony, the outgoing head of government, Mario Draghi, today hands over his position to Giorgia Meloni as president of the Italian Council of Ministers, the first time that a woman has assumed that position. An extensive security police deployment surrounds the Chigi Palace, headquarters of the Executive, where the change of command will take place at 10:30 local time, after which Meloni will meet with the members of the team that he now heads, according to an official statement .
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Trump hints that he will run for the 2024 presidential elections and calls Nancy Pelosi “crazy”
Former US president Donald Trump hinted that he “probably” will run again in the 2024 presidential election, at the same time that he called Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, “crazy.” “I was nominated twice and I won twice. (…) For our country to be successful, safe and glorious again, I will probably have to do it again, ”said the politician that Saturday at the ‘Save America’ rally held in the city of Robstown, Texas.
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Lula narrowly wins and there will be a second round in Brazil
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the first round of presidential elections in Brazil on Sunday with a four-point advantage over the current president, Jair Bolsonaro. Both will dispute the second round of the electoral race. The results give the leftist Lula da Silva 48.13% of the vote compared to 43.46% for the far-right Bolsonaro with 98.67% of the vote. The night was bittersweet for the head of state who went from leading the count from the beginning to seeing how his opponent overtook him at the end.
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Lula maintains advantage over Bolsonaro ahead of presidential elections in Brazil
The candidate of the Brazilian Workers’ Party, Luiz Inácio da Silva, maintains a 12-point advantage in the intention to vote against the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to the most recent Quaest survey released on Wednesday. The former president reached 44% in favor of the total number of respondents, which represents one point below the previous investigation by the institute revealed on August 17. For his part, Bolsonaro obtained 32%, Ciro Gomes of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) 8%, Simone Tebet of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) 3%.
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Diaz-Canel congratulates Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism after recovering the country’s Presidency
The President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez tweeted his congratulations today to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) of Bolivia, which recovered the Presidency in yesterday’s elections
Díaz-Canel emphasized that “Cuba is overjoyed by Luis Arce’s victory” and celebrates the rebirth of the Bolivarian ideal.