El 16 de febrero de 1903 el Gobierno de Estrada Palma cedió, para la Base Naval en Guantánamo, un área de 117,6 kilómetros cuadrados del territorio nacional, que permanece ocupada desde entonces, en contra de la voluntad del pueblo cubano
El 16 de febrero de 1903 el entonces presidente de Cuba, Tomás Estrada Palma, traicionó las ideas de José Martí y del Partido Revolucionario Cubano que ayudó a fundar, al firmar la cesión del territorio de Caimanera a Estados Unidos, para implantar una base naval contra la voluntad nacional.
De esa manera, hace 120 años, el Gobierno de Estrada Palma cedió, para la Base Naval en Guantánamo, un área de 117,6 kilómetros cuadrados del territorio nacional, que permanece ocupada desde entonces, en contra de la voluntad del pueblo cubano.
El injerencista Convenio para las Estaciones Carboneras y Navales surgió a partir de la imposición de una enmienda constitucional…
Despite the huge number of affected people and infrastructure, the UN launches only a $397 million humanitarian appeal to aid Syria.
Residents and rescue teams searching for survivors under the rubble in northwest Syria(AFP)
The United Nations on Wednesday said $5.6 billion was needed to provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine and to the millions who have fled the country after the start of the war, a day after it announced a$397 million humanitarian appealto aid quake-hit Syria.
The UN estimated that 21.8 million Ukrainians were now in need of humanitarian assistance.
“The war continues to cause death, destruction and displacement daily, and on a staggering scale,” UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement.
“We must do all we can to reach the hardest-to-reach communities, including those close to the front line,” Griffiths stressed, adding that “the suffering…
‘Russia offered to send grain for free. But its exports were blocked’
Almost half of all Ukrainian wheat and corn exports to the EU ended up feeding pigs in Spain to produce the world-famous, and very expensive, jamon, according to an investigation by Austrian outlet eXXpress.
The bloc ended up accounting for most of Kiev’s grain exports, even though the opening of the Black Sea corridor was advertised as a way to feed Africa and Asia.
An estimated 2.9 million tons of wheat and corn from Ukraine ended up in Spain, where it was used as animal feed, the Austrian outlet said on Monday.
According to eXXpress, only 15% of the exports ended up in the countries at risk of famine, including 167,000 tons in Ethiopia and 65,000 tons in Sudan.
File photo: Jamon Iberico de Bellota is sliced during a competition in Madrid
“Spain paid more money – and Ukraine delivered,” the outlet said.
After months of Kiev and its Western backers accusing Russia of “blockading” the Ukrainian ports, the UN and Türkiye negotiated an arrangement for exporting grain from both Ukraine and Russia, via special corridors in the Black Sea.
The government’s inadequate response to the earthquake speaks to decades of mismanagement, corruption, and cronyism that could threaten Erogan’s career, as public outrage soars alongside the death toll, writes Joseph Daher.
Critics and analysts explain these shortcomings as consequences of Erdogan’s policy of centralising power in his own hands, undermining institutions of their independence, nominating inexperienced people loyal to his party to key positions, and weakening or eliminating civil society organisations
More than a week after the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which has killed more than 35,000 people and counting, including 29,695 in Turkey and more than 3,500 in Syria, public criticisms against Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government continue to increase.
The Turkish president and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) are already looking fragile ahead of the upcoming presidential and legislative elections in May. Current criticisms of Erdogan’s government in the aftermath of the earthquake centre on two main issues.
First, the response to the earthquakes has been considered by many as insufficient and inadequate. Many collapsed buildings have been left unattended and people left without electricity, water and food.
There has been growing frustration from the population, with critics signalling the lack of equipment, expertise and support to rescue those trapped under the rubble and questioning why the army, which played a key role after a 1999 earthquake, was not brought in sooner.
“This is not the first time that Ankara is denounced for its failures to deal with natural disasters”
Erdogan himself recognized there were problems and limitations with the government’s initial response to the earthquake. One of the problems is the continuous weakening of the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (known by its acronym AFAD), which is the institution responsible for search and rescue and providing food during emergencies.
#Afrin: While the so-called "Barzani Charitable Organization" sent aid to occupied Afrin… kurdish people from Cindirês district of Afrin canton confirmed that they did not receive any aid, and added that the aid is only sent to settlers "Since days we have not received any aid" pic.twitter.com/f0qHZXEN2m
Last week, bombshell reporting by veteran US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed that the Biden administration was directly responsible for September’s attacks against the Nord Stream network, which cut off a major Russian route for energy deliveries to Germany, and undermined Europe’s energy security.
BREAKING> Hersh reveals more- Only 6 0f 8 bombs went off, due to “Biden’s delay in giving final order” // CIA whistleblower’s motive- ‘against making Germany FREEZE’// Hersh promises more Nord Stream ‘bombshells’ to come
Denmark and Sweden have failed to respond to Russian overtures to discuss the Nord Stream blasts for nearly six months now, with their behavior constituting nothing short of a “boorish” attempt to hide Washington’s responsibility for the sabotage attack, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
“For half a year now they’ve been as silent as a fish on ice, and since September neither the Swedes nor the Danish have responded to official letters of our prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, who very politely offered to appoint some kind of contact person with whom it would be possible to hold talks, since [the attack] took place in the territorial waters of their exclusive zones, and the pipelines are the property of a Russian company,” Lavrov said, speaking to reporters on Wednesday.
The government’s inadequate response to the earthquake speaks to decades of mismanagement, corruption, and cronyism that could threaten Erogan’s career, as public outrage soars alongside the death toll, writes Joseph Daher.
The agent of the Spanish National Police Force R.M.F., with the false identity of Ramón Martínez Hernández, infiltrated the popular and anti-fascist movement in Valencia for two years through Cuidem Benimaclet and the Occupied Anarchist Social Center l’Horta (CSOA)
The undercover agent forming part of the security cordon at an Anti-Fascist Action demonstration in Valencia on May 1, 2021 / La Directa
In June 2020, an agent of the Spanish National Police Force (CNP) infiltrated the pro-independence left and the movement for the right to housing in Barcelona under the false identity of Marc Hernàndez Pons.
It was not an isolated case. In parallel, another Spy Cop joined the occupied La Cinètika Anarchist Social Center to infiltrate the social movements of the Catalan capital under the false identity of Daniel Hernàndez Pons.
Two weeks after uncovering the second infiltrator, this medium has been able to confirm that they were not alone. We discovered a third police Spycop.
In March of 2020, a young man who called himself Ramón Martínez Hernández was introduced to the popular movement of Valencia.
As La Directa has certified thanks to a long and meticulous investigation, his real identity corresponds to the initials R.M.F., he is an agent of the Spanish police and originally from a coastal municipality in the Catalan region of Baix Llobregat (although in the Valencian activism he presenting himself as a being from Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona) where he resided until he joined the police school in Ávila.
An expert specialized in criminalistics has drawn up a physiognomic report on behalf of Directa with images of the real and fictitious identities of the infiltrator. Photographs of his youth and his time as an activist in Valencia are compared and it is concluded that, “without any doubt, the photographs correspond to one and the same person”.
The report of an expert specializing in criminalistics proves that the infiltrator in Valencia and the R.M.F. policeman are, “without any doubt”, the same person |La Directa
The revelation of this new case of espionage and the multiple links between all three police officers show that we are dealing with a coordinated operation to spy on the left-wing and anti-capitalist activism of the Catalan Countries, under the baton of the general commissioner of information Eugenio Pereiro Blanco and under a hierarchical structure headed by the Spanish Minister of the Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
Undercover agent Ramón Martínez Hernández took the oath of office as a career officer of the Spanish Police on June 13, 2019, two years after entering the National Police School in Ávila, where all the CNP agents.
The first outed Spy Cop of the Spanish police I.J.E.G., who infiltrated thr Catalan Independence movementunder the false identity Marc Hernàndez Pons.
At the beginning of March 2020, already with a false identity and shortly before turning 28, he appeared for the first time in Cuidem Benimaclet, an open Neighborhood Assembly that brings together families, the elderly and young people to stop the execution of an urban project in this neighborhood of Valencia.
In the summer of 2020, the infiltrator had access to the events of Entrebarris and the CSOA l'Horta, from which he came to have a copy of the keys
With the outbreak of the pandemic, everything stopped, including the infiltration plan. But, through the Telegram group of Cuidem Benimaclet – which is a member of EntreBarris, a network of collectives and neighborhood associations of the neighborhoods of Valencia–, in which he had already entered, the police mole continued to be informed of the debates and actions that arose during confinement.
The Spy Cop going by the name Ramón Martínez entered the associative fabric of a neighborhood that has become the epicenter of the city’s social struggles and community networks. Coinciding with the relaxation of measures against covid-19, he integrated into the activism of the Occupied Anarchist Social Center l’Horta (CSOA) by joining the group that practices the combat sport of muay thai, and Grama, the Benimaclet food recycling and distribution network.
The National Police have abandoned the illegally evicted Casal Social Okupado Anarquista de L’Horta (CSOA l’Horta) in the Valencian neighborhood of Benimaclet after 10:30 a.m. this Monday and dozens of activists have proceeded to ‘reoccupy’ it, although there had previously been a police charge.
Through this last space, he joined the support group for the migrant community that lives in La Garrofera, an abandoned building that had been a dairy plant. From here he made the jump to the anti-fascist movement in Valencia, becoming an active militant in mobilizations and direct actions. This led him to attend several events and political acts and the demonstration in tribute to the young anti-fascist murdered by the far-right Guillem Agulló, held on April 11, 2021 in Burjassot (l’Horta Nord).
