It is with regret that we announce the closing of Casa de las Americas at our 182 East 111th Street location. Numerous conditions beyond our control led to this difficult decision.

We are saddened at not being able to remain in el Barrio where we were so well received. We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve the community there for five years.

The struggle against Empire is relentless and never ending. We are discussing the next phase of our work to Defend the Cuban Revolution.

We expect to have more information by the end of September.

Jaime Mendieta

Guillermo Villa

Nancy Cabrero

Franklin Flores

Havana, July 22, 2014

NESTOR NUÑEZ DORTA
It is no accident that Tel Aviv, given the traditional silence of Washington and its remaining allies, and the notorious inaction of a good part of the Middle Eastern community, has recently initiated a military assault on Gaza and the defenseless Palestinian population.
Women, children and the elderly are the main victims of the latest Israeli genocide against Gaza. Photo: Mahmud Hams/ AFP.
Thus, Israel is once again attempting to reinforce its repression using the contrived excuse of the assassination of three young Jewish boys – living in one of the illegal Zionist colonies in the occupied West Bank – by Arab combatants, when various sources have assured that the victims were last seen with Israeli security officials

Nonetheless, the xenophobic response was applauded, and while Israeli planes mercilessly bombed populated zones in Gaza and Tel Aviv executed warlike maneuvers on the border, a group of extremists burnt a young Palestinian teenager alive, as one of the murders admitted during a police interrogation.

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