Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 5th to the 11th, 2013. The Palestinian Authority voiced concerns this week due to Israeli reluctance of releasing political prisoners, while Israeli army attacks targeting Palestinians communities leave a number of injured civilians
Read MoreIn a major new report, the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations details a global crackdown on peaceful protests through excessive police force and the criminalization of dissent in many countries around the globe.
Read MoreAll Cuban news reports about demonstrations, strikes, rallies and other types of civil protests in different countries always make a point of emphasizing the police or military repression that these movements invariably encounter. I’ve always asked myself: how would Cuban authorities react to such protests?
Read MoreThe northwest Caribbean Sea is currently in a low pressure area with cloudy skies and scattered thunder storms. The system has a good chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the coming days, and is expected to bring rains to the western portion of the country through Saturday, when the weather will improve significantly.
Read MoreThe report showed an ad for a high-class tourist resort located near Cuba’s Guanahacabibes peninsula, in the province of Pinar del Rio, designed for the use and enjoyment of multimillionaires. This is probably less believable for members of the opposition, dissidents or those who are simply disillusioned with the Cuban revolution than for the architects of this cruel and enormous lie.
Read MoreCuban society has to address serious economic and political questions that cannot be answered through doctrines or reading the classics. Neither can we set our hopes on formulas that have been enshrined by political tendencies.
Read MoreThis week marks the 40th anniversary of what’s known as the other 9/11: September 11, 1973, when a U.S.-backed military coup ousted Chile’s democratically elected president Salvador Allende and ushered in a 17-year repressive dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. We’re joined by Joan Jara, the widow of Chilean singer Víctor Jara, who has just filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. court against the former military officer who allegedly killed Jara 40 years ago.
Read MoreAt six o’clock sharp, Santiago Feliu, accompanied by Roberto Carcases (piano), Oliver Valdes (drums), Roberto Luis (guitar) and Yandier Cruz (bass guitar), took the stage to talk to us about love, death, the meaning of life, the waning of love and war. (17 photos)
Read MoreFernando Alonso, dancer and grand maestro del ballet cubano, passed away in Havana on Saturday at the age of 98. Fernando founded the Ballet Nacional de Cuba along with his wife, ballerina Alicia Alonso, who still directs it.
Read MoreLike any other city in the world, Havana is not without underprivileged individuals living in abject poverty who barely manage to survive every day, particularly near the end of their days. We must acknowledge the many things done in Cuba to help the disabled, children, young people and the elderly. These things, however, are apparently not enough. (23 photos)
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