by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2023 With the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 of his associates, Georgia joins an ignoble club of heavy handed prosecutions in which members of political opposition are subjected to mass trials while being accorded few rights, an analysis said. “At a press conference near midnight on Monday, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2023 Iranian President President Ebrahim Raisi concluded a Latin American trip on June 16 by saying the Islamic Republic’s ties to the communist states he visited, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, are not a “normal but rather a strategic” relationship against foreign interference. “Iran has just finalized a tour across Latin […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2023 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken jetted to Beijing on Monday in a move to smooth ties with, rather than deter communist leader Xi Jinping who immediately rebuffed Blinken’s request to re-establish a military back channel. Blinken told reporters after meeting with Xi that he “repeatedly” raised the matter […]
FPI / June 14, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a classic public-relations bungle, a June 9 leak by “U.S. officials” to the Wall Street Journal said that “China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island.” Already Cuba’s largest trading partner since 2016, the […]
Special to WorldTribune, June 12, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Cuba in 1960 was the first Latin American country to recognize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in China. Now all of Latin America, with the exception of Belize, Guatemala, and Paraguay, recognize the CCP. Two-thirds of Latin American countries are ruled by socialist […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News March 21, 2023 Angel Fournier Rodriguez, a two-time Olympian and the top rower in Cuba’s history, died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 16 in Texas where he had recently moved. He was 35. No cause of death has been reported. Fournier Rodriguez was a multiple World Cup medalist […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s all about the timing. Ana Belen Montes, an American who served a more than twenty years in federal prison for spying for the then-Castro regime while serving as a senior analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington, has been released. But this case is hardly […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2022 While many of their citizens were availing themselves of Joe Biden’s open borders, many of the leaders of Central and South America boycotted the 2022 Summit of the Americas hosted by Team Biden in Los Angeles last week. The Washington Examiner, in a June 10 editorial, said it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager Canada is leaving the Western world. In terms of all-encompassing government, suppression of dissent and the denial of fundamental human rights to many of its citizens, Canada is now more similar to Cuba than to any free country. Canada may eventually return to Western civilization, but as of this writing, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Cuba’s ongoing political and social upheaval has shocked many observers as a sudden and intense summer storm. Across the island in small towns and provincial centers protests erupted like a squall line until reaching the capital Havana. Tropical storm “Liberdad” was lashing the Island of Cuba while its […]
