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  • United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

    Diaz-Canel celebrates diplomatic victory against U.S. blockade at UN

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on October 29, 2025 by Prensa Latina Staff (more by Prensa Latina English)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2025)

    Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel celebrated the overwhelming support of the international community at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where 165 member states rejected the U.S. blockade against Cuba.

  • Rome, Mar 23 (Prensa Latina) The recent pressure put by the US government on Italy for the hiring of Cuban doctors was described as "shameful".

    U.S. puts “shameful pressure” on Italy for hiring Cuban doctors

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on March 23, 2023 by Luis Linares Petrov (more by Prensa Latina English)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2023)

    In a statement released this Thursday, the Italy-Cuba Friendship Association (ANAIC), also stated that it is an “absurd interference by the United States in the internal affairs” of Italy, by “asking for explanations” on this issue from the sanitary authorities, as revealed by Corriere della Sera newspaper.

  • Pablo Neruda

    Neruda was assassinated with a biological weapon, nephew denounces

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on February 15, 2023 by Juan M. Garcia (more by Prensa Latina English)  | (Posted Feb 16, 2023)

    Rodolfo Reyes, a lawyer and nephew of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, charged on Tuesday that the reports from two laboratories in Canada and Denmark confirm the assassination of the Nobel Prizewinner for Literature with a biological weapon.

  • Odessa port

    Russia attacked warship and arms depot in Odessa port

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on July 24, 2022 by Martin Hacthoun (more by Prensa Latina English)  | (Posted Jul 25, 2022)

    The Russian Defense Ministry today confirmed the recent attack by the Russian armed forces on the port of Odessa, an action that directly hit military targets.

  • Russians support the idea of relaunching Soviet-era brands

    Russians support the idea of relaunching Soviet-era brands

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on July 10, 2022 by Luis Linares Petrov (more by Prensa Latina English)  | (Posted Jul 13, 2022)

    A survey by the Moscow Sinergiya University Analysis Center confirmed that eight out of 10 Russians support the idea of relaunching brands from the Soviet period, such as the Moskvich.

  • Miami’s ultra-right and its coercion against Cuban artists

    Miami’s ultra-right and its coercion against Cuban artists

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on November 4, 2021 by Lino Céspedes Rodríguez (more by Prensa Latina English)  | (Posted Nov 08, 2021)

    Havana, Nov. 4 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Cuba highlighted today the methods of pressure that the extreme right of Miami, U.S., exerts on Cuban artists to take sides against the government of the island.

  • Cuba begins days against homophobia and transphobia

    Cuba begins days against homophobia and transphobia

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on May 4, 2021 (more by Prensa Latina English)  |

    Cuba is celebrating from Tuesday to May 30 the 14th edition of the Conference against Homophobia and Transphobia, under the slogan ‘All rights for all people.’

  • Syrian refugees in Iraq Syrian refugees participate in SGBV awareness event at Kawrgosk Camp in Erbil, Iraq. Photo: Sarah Chardonnens/UNDP Iraq (2013) Over 6.5 million Syrians have fled their homes as a result of the ongoing violence in Syria. 36% of the 6.5 million Syrians have fled into neighboring Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and North Africa. Photo: UNDP Syria (2013)

    Displaced persons return home in Latakia, Syria

    Originally published: Prensa Latina English on March 10, 2021 (more by Prensa Latina English)  |

    Thousands of people displaced in the last eight years have returned to their towns liberated from terrorism in the coastal region of Latakia province, 337 kilometers north-west of Damascus.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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