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Our full support for the Anti-Fascist International

DECLARATION OF THE CASA DE LAS AMERICAS, Cuba

Not the same organization as, CASA DE LAS AMERICAS, New York

 

Our full support for the Anti-Fascist International

A constant in two centuries of U.S. interference in the region is the obsession to destroy any sovereign or moderately progressive project

Author:  | cultura@granma.cu

september 18, 2024 08:09:40

Artwork El eco del llanto (1937) Photo: David Alfaro Siqueiros 

In 1937, when the Spanish Republic was resisting the assault of Franco’s troops, decisively supported by Hitler and Mussolini, and in the face of the complicit silence of most of the European governments, the clamor of the best intellectuals of the time was raised in Valencia. From there, Juan Marinello sentenced: “it is not possible to fight fascism without attacking its twin brother, imperialism.”
Today the United States has many open fronts in the world. It is stirring up conflicts in Europe, in the Middle East, in the Far East -to speak only of the best known right now-, and even within the country, conflicts are flaring up that are endangering its own version of democracy. None of this prevents them from forgetting our region, which they continue to consider their backyard.
Heirs of a two hundred year history based on formulations such as the “empire for freedom” proclaimed by Jefferson, with its inevitable corollary in the Monroe Doctrine and the policy of Manifest Destiny; in line with the dozens of direct or indirect interventions, barracks, judicial coups, blockades and pressures of all kinds in Latin America and the Caribbean from the mid-nineteenth century until today, the United States maintains intact its imperial vocation over the territories south of the Rio Grande, and renews it again and again.
A constant in these two centuries of interference is the obsession to destroy any sovereign or moderately progressive project in the region, not to mention, of course, the unrestrained and relentless war against those who defend revolutionary alternatives. At a time when the world and our own continent are witnessing the advance of the extreme right, the attacks are multiplying and becoming more evident. Meanwhile, a new iron lady, General Richardson, head of the dreadful Southern Command, travels part of our geography -recently Chile, as before Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay-, so that everyone remembers who is in charge.
But there are peoples who do not obey or accept empires, doctrines or manifest destinies. For that reason, the most rabid destabilizing crusade is being waged against Venezuela today, which includes from fascist violence, armed conspiracies such as the one denounced just a few days ago, the brazen interference of foreign governments, to the incessant smear campaign through hegemonic media, digital platforms and social networks.
All this without discounting economic sanctions: the weapon that Lester D. Mallory, an obscure Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs recommended, in the Cuban case, in 1960, in order to “provoke hunger, desperation and the overthrow of the Government”. The same weapon that ten years later, as soon as Salvador Allende was elected, President Nixon, also known among his compatriots as Dirty Dick, would instruct his Secretary of State to use: “the Chilean economy must be made to squeak”. Similar also to the one used a decade later against the Sandinista Revolution, and so usual today in a good part of the world.
Being the most scandalous and open, the onslaught against Venezuela -as against Cuba, about to turn 65 years old- is not unique. Honduras is once again facing the specter of a coup d’état, when the previous one is still fresh in the memory of its citizens. For his part, President Gustavo Petro has warned that “a Colombian-style coup d’état has begun”. And in Mexico, the government of López Obrador decided to put relations with the United States on hold, in view of the interference of its officials in decisions that are the exclusive responsibility of Mexican men and women.
The unity of revolutionaries was one of the main demands of the World Congress against Fascism, held in Caracas on September 10 and 11. Today we see with pain and anguish that in sister Bolivia a suicidal division is growing that can only benefit the fascist forces and the empire. The same forces -those sinister twins- that the Congress called to confront, as one of the greatest dangers that humanity suffers today, with the creation of an Anti-Fascist International.
From Casa de las Americas we ratify all our support to the nascent Antifascist International and its decision to make Our America and the world a space where the right to life and human dignity prevails above all else.

Terrorism against Cuba is state policy

The assassination of Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia Rodriguez in New York

The double standards of the self-proclaimed judges of terrorism

For more than six decades, 3,478 deaths and 2,099 disabled put names to the statistics of this criminal war against Cuba

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

september 13, 2024 11:09:29

On September 11, 1980, Omega 7 claimed responsibility for the assassination of Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia Rodriguez in New York. Photo: Archivo de Granma

In its arsenal of aggressions against Cuba, the U.S. government has put into practice a hundred different forms of terrorism ranging from sabotage of civilian airplanes to biological warfare and economic blockade.
From that country, one of the largest and most dangerous terrorist networks in the world was created, made up of organizations that have carried out a sad corollary of crimes.
Among them was Omega 7, founded in the United States on September 11, 1974, an organization that perpetrated, between 1963 and 1981, more than 60 terrorist attacks against Cuban installations and commercial institutions.
On September 11, 1980, Omega 7 claimed responsibility for the assassination of Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia Rodriguez in Queens, New York.
Over more than six decades, 3,478 fatalities and 2,099 disabled people put names to the statistics of this war against Cuba.
Let us remember the attacks on fishing and merchant vessels, such as the one against the Spanish ship Sierra Aránzazu, which caused the death of the captain and two of the officers.
On the other hand, we cannot forget the biological warfare, aimed at destroying agriculture and damaging the health of Cubans.
In order to confront the violent actions organized from Washington, men and women born from the bowels of the people, run all the risks and make all the sacrifices.
On September 12, 1998, five Cubans who decided to dedicate their lives to the fight against terrorism in the city of Miami were arrested in the United States.
For that reason, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González served severe and unjust sentences for more than 16 years.
However, in spite of the high price in lives and material resources that this murderous policy has cost the Cuban people, Washington designed, since the first years of the Revolution, a strategy of discredit, with the objective of justifying the permanent siege and presenting the largest of the Antilles as a terrorist country.
The inclusion of the island on the U.S. State Department’s list of countries sponsoring terrorism is a measure that goes far beyond isolating an adversary of the White House.
Such a measure is part of the scourge they claim to fight. It cannot be seen separately from the blockade or the violent actions or cognitive warfare, it is part of a whole designed to bring a people to its knees.
In spite of everything, the largest of the Antilles, which is a signatory to 19 international conventions related to the fight against terrorism, condemns this scourge and will continue to honor the commitments assumed in this matter, a responsibility it elevated to constitutional rank in 2019.

Cuban Technology

Cuba will have its first minute of electricity generation without imported fuel

In 2025, Cuba will have its first minute of electricity generation without imported fuel

Vicente de la O Levy, Minister of Energy and Mines, said in the television program Mesa Redonda, that “with the growth of renewable energy sources, the growth of Energás, and the repairs we are making in the thermal units, by 2025, we will have at least one minute of generation without consuming imported fuel”

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

september 6, 2024 13:09:08

Photo: Dunia Álvarez

Eliminating dependence on imported fossil fuels for electricity generation in the country, as well as producing 29% of energy through renewable sources, is a long-awaited goal.
Vicente de la O Levy, head of Energy and Mines, expressed in the television program Mesa Redonda, that “we are convinced that, with the growth of renewable energy sources, the growth of Energás, and the repairs we are making in the thermal units, we will have, in 2025, at least one minute of generation without consuming imported fuel.”
“That will be the first minute, but we hope to continue increasing it,” he said, adding that it will not be an easy road, but full of obstacles, but it is the safe road.
Currently, explained Rosell Guerra Campaña, director of Renewable Energies of the Minem, as part of the ambitious project to install 92 photovoltaic solar parks with a total power of 2 000 mw, 30 are already under civil construction.
In Havana, Las Tunas, Pinar del Río, Mayabeque, Sancti Spíritus and Guantánamo provinces  there is at least one park under construction; in Matanzas, Ciego de Avila, Santiago de Cuba, Camagüey and Artemisa there are two; Cienfuegos and Villa Clara are in the process of structuring three; while in Holguín and Granma there are four.
Guerra Campaña said that it is estimated that ten of these parks will be installed this year, equivalent to 220 megawatts. However, work is being done to prepare the land to make as much progress as possible, prior to the arrival of the panels.
To date, there are 77 photovoltaic solar parks installed in Cuba, with 286 megawatts (MW) of power, which annually replace more than 80,000 tons of fuel.

Genocide

The massacre must end

The massacre must end

“The day when future generations ask why we did not stop the holocaust, we will not have a dignified and reasonable answer,” said Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in X

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

august 21, 2024 10:08:55

Photo: Prensa Latina

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Tel Aviv and publicly stated that “perhaps” this is “the last chance for a ceasefire in Gaza”.
A few kilometers away from the meeting with the authorities of the Jewish country, a Dantesque spectacle, very similar to that left by the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is the testimony of the Palestinian identity subjected to extermination in the Gaza Strip.
Logic indicates that a solution to this conflict is a long way off as long as a foreign actor – the U.S. – finances and supports Benjamin Netanyahu’s Zionist regime within the framework of the UN and other international institutions.
It must be made clear to Joe Biden and Blinken – once again sent to Israel as a kind of “fire-fighter” in the face of international condemnation – that they hold the solution in their hands: force Israel to stop the genocide in Palestine, or the White House will suspend the delivery of the most advanced weapons and the financial support of more than U.S. $4 billion a year.
In addition, the Biden administration, or the next one, can lift the veto in the UN Security Council when it comes to peace in Palestine and the cessation of Israeli aggression.
Coinciding with Blinken’s visit to Israel, the UN, in the voice of its Secretary-General António Guterres, called for “an end to impunity for attacks on humanitarian workers,” 280 of whom from 33 countries were killed last year alone.
And lest we forget, the number of Palestinians killed by Zionist shrapnel exceeds 40,000, not counting the estimated 10,000 more buried under the rubble of what was once Gaza City.
It is not the time for the visits of the Yankee representative or his worthless warnings, nor for the resolutions and appeals of the international institutions, which are neither heard nor followed by those guilty of genocide.
There is no direct action to stop the crime.