Preliminary results of the February 24 referendum indicate that 6,816,169 Cubans approved the new Constitution of the Republic, 73.3% of all eligible citizens over 16 years of age, reported National Electoral Commission President Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, in a press conference yesterday.Read More »
The ANC said they would send a “Tripartite Alliance delegation led by the Secretary-General” to “Venezuela on a fact-finding mission.”
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the African National Congress (ANC) expressed their solidarity with the Venezuela people and discussed internal matters in a meeting Monday.
In a letter penned from prison, former president Lula Da Silva says that the U.S. and Brazil shouldn’t intervene in Venezuela, and criticized the U.S. blockade as a ‘dirty trick’.
Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva spoke out from prison against the U.S. using Brazil as a puppet to intervene in Venezuela, saying that Jair Bolsonaro is “submissive” to the U.S. by joining its attack on Venezuela.
Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia, expressed hope that this “period of turbulence will end someday”.
Lavrov told: A new polycentric system of international relations will take decades to establish, but eventually it will bring about a more stable and safer world order.Read More »
If the so-called American Revolution of 1776 was truly committed to breaking with monarchical and autocratic rule from the United Kingdom then why did slavery grow at a rapid rate after the achievement of independence of the former 13 colonies in North America?
Six months from now, a commemoration of the long saga of struggle against national oppression and economic exploitation will take place.
In late August of 1619, approximately 20 Africans were brought to the shore of Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, then a colony of Britain, having been captured by Portuguese colonisers in the Ndongo and Kongo kingdoms (in the vicinity of modern day Angola, Republic of Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo) and then stolen again en route to Vera Cruz on the coast of Mexico by British traders operating a warship flying a Dutch flag for the purpose of labour exploitation.
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