... term. With the admission of two countries from this region as associate members of the bloc, the Latin American presence in the pool of developing countries seeking to increase their weight in shaping the new world order is set to grow. Bolivia and Cuba joined BRICS as partners along with 11 other countries: Algeria, Belarus, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Together with the core BRICS countries and the new members who joined a year earlier,...
The Russian-Cuban cooperation has a long-standing history, rooted in their shared geopolitical interests and ideological affinities. The fact that Cuba and Russia are actively collaborating shows how close the two nations are becoming as friends and allies. Russia ...
Russia and Cuba have many common values when it comes to their picture of the world and their place in the current balance of power
Relations between Russia and countries such as Cuba cannot be built according to the general patterns of “nothing personal,...
... prosecution.
Other countries face a similar situation. The first COVID-19 cases have been registered in Syria, a country that is in a state of war. The strict oil embargo has resulted in a shortage of petrol, which is needed by both the military and medics. Cuba has faced fuel shortages as a result of a U.S.-led embargo for years now. Venezuela and a number of other countries have yet to feel the full force of the COVID-19 pandemic, but doctors and the population will likewise be hit hard. The most stable ...
... snarky move, recently, the incoming right wing regime in Brazil ex-invited Venezuela's current president Maduro from the January 1st innaguration of president-elect Bolsonaro in Brasilia. Also ex-invited were another member of the Bolivarian Alliance, Cuba. For reasons not made clear the leaders of Bolivia and Nicaragua were not ex-invited. When the news about the "withdrawn" invitations broke, the Bolsonaro team said that Maduro and the ex-invited Bolivarian Alliance nations were never invited ...
While preparing changes in our Cuban policies, you must include changes in our policies vis-a-vis pro-Castro Caracas in Venezuela. The Maduro regime is supported by both Cuba and Iran. We must not allow Tehran's mullahs to continue getting uranium from Venezuela! And we must insist ...
... dragged to the verge of disaster, where it remained, precariously-balanced, for thirteen – seemingly never-ending – days. Fast forwarding to half a century later, it is 2015 and it is impossible not to notice how the hard-learned lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis appears to have been forgotten. Although the current “Cold War II” hasn't reached the same dangerous peaks of its former incarnation, I maintain that it shows all the signs of a conflict escalating so rapidly, ...
... chose to side-step this “inconvenient” issue by calling upon the summit participants to express support for the negotiations of the Colombian Government with FARC left-wing rebels, as well as for the “modernization process” in Cuba. On behalf of the EU, Donald Tusk offered assistance towards a post-conflict settlement in Colombia and expressed hope for an early conclusion to a political and economic agreement between Cuba and the EU.
The CELAC members currently enjoy a higher ...
The normalization of the US-Cuban relations is a step so long-awaited that only the most faithful and orthodox fanatics can stand against it.
Unsurprisingly, despite the ideological differences of the media involved, one particular cartoon has been readily reproduced in printed ...
... global attention is rightfully focused on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, that is no excuse to forget other comparably important historical events that have played a key role in preserving and developing modern society, including the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, which shattered the Soviet-American relationship. It is common knowledge that the situation was eventually resolved by the leaders of the two global superpowers, USSR and the U.S., but little is known about the activities ...
