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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
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Elon Musk announces what the full review of the Twitter account verification process will look like
The new policy is changing Twitter Blue, the company’s optional $4.99-a-month subscription, to a $19.99 one that also includes user verification. Billionaire Elon Musk, who last week acquired the social network Twitter, announced a complete overhaul of the platform’s user account verification process. “The entire verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk wrote on Twitter last Sunday, without elaborating. After a user’s account is verified or authenticated, a blue icon appears next to the name
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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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The Washington Post: The growing influence of the “mighty and reckless” Elon Musk worries the US government
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is becoming increasingly involved in geopolitical issues, raising concerns in Washington. With his publications about the scenarios of peaceful resolution of the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia and between Taiwan and China, and with his statements about the cut of financing of the Starlink terminals in Ukraine, the billionaire provoked irritation and concern among US legislators, reports The Washington Post.Musk, who is currently the richest person in the world, continually demonstrates his growing power.
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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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Nancy Pelosi claimed to want to “break Trump’s face” during the assault on the Capitol
“I hope he comes. I want to kick his ass for trespassing on Capitol Hill. I want to break his face, and then go to jail happy.” This was expressed by the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, on January 6, 2021, when a mob of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol. The person Pelosi was referring to was Donald Trump. The congresswoman launched those words when an aide informed her that the Secret Service – the police force that protects the US president – had refused to allow Trump to go to Capitol Hill to support his supporters, who were in full coup attempt.
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National Television Award 2022 awarded to René Navarro Arbelo
The narrator and sports commentator René Navarro Arbelo, who worked for almost five decades on Cuban television, received the 2022 National Television Award. Navarro Arbelo has distinguished himself in the narration of world, Pan American and Central Caribbean volleyball, athletics, basketball and cycling competitions, among others. He baptized the generation of the women’s volleyball team that won almost everything during the nineties as the Spectacular Morenas del Caribe.
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Strong criticism of Nancy Pelosi for saying that illegal immigrants could serve to “reap the crops”
The president of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi, is the target of strong criticism on social networks after declaring that in her country there is a shortage of workers and that illegal immigrants should be used as labor labor in the crops. This Friday, during a press conference, Pelosi criticized the governors of the southern states of the country that send undocumented immigrants to the cities of the northern regions.
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Hurricane Ian affected 40 percent of base stations and 7 percent of telephone services in Cuba
The Telecommunications Company of Cuba S.A (Etecsa) reported that recovery work continued with the execution of cleaning tasks, restoration of cables and more than 1,200 poles affected by the force of the winds and fallen trees. They pointed out that, after the passage of Hurricane Ian, more than 100,000 interrupted fixed services were registered, representing 15% of the total telephone lines of the five provinces that were under the influence of this meteorological event.
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The New York Times denounces that 97 US congressmen are involved in unfair trading of financial assets
At least 97 current members of the US Senate and House of Representatives reported selling and buying stocks and other financial assets by themselves or their immediate family members in sectors that could be affected by their area of work in Congress, according to an extensive investigation by The New York Times, published in September, which is based on the analysis of trade data from 2019 to 2021. Thus, the newspaper’s journalists compared the politicians’ transactions with the work of committees.
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Hugo Rius Blein: Journalism, like bread and water
This Friday, August 26, Hugo Rius Blein, José Martí National Journalism Award winner for his life’s work, passed away. The interview that follows is just over five years old. From it emerged (and vice versa) a television capsule that we have placed at the end of the text. With it, the Union of Cuban Journalists remembers his life and his dedication to journalism. Hugo was born on August 23, 1940 in the Havana neighborhood of Luyanó, where he also became an adult.