
For over two decades, US-led sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe in retaliation to its land reforms have tolled the toiling farmers and workers of the southern African country.

In the Summit held in the Russian city of Kazan, BRICS members condemned the genocidal Israeli war on West Asia, the illegal sanctions regimes imposed on the people of the world by the US and its allies, and Western dominated multilateral institutions.

This is the first summit since the accession of five new members, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE earlier this year. It is expected that yet another set of countries may join the grouping this year.

Cuban journalist Laura Prada writes from Havana about the national blackout in Cuba, product of the blockade imposed on the island by the United States.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto speaks about how people’s power continues to triumph against US imperialist meddling in the country

The president and foreign minister both championed the creation a multipolar world order and pushed for concrete solidarity with countries facing repeated imperialist onslaught

The US had temporarily eased some of the unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela following agreements between the government and the opposition about the upcoming elections

Bob Menendez, who spearheads the brutal US sanctions regime against several sovereign nations, was asked to resign after corruption charges were filed against him

Speaking at the UN General Assembly session, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel stressed the need for “changes that can no longer be postponed in the midst of the unjust, irrational and abusive international economic order”

More than 50 academics responded to Democratic senator who dismissed, without evidence, the humanitarian impacts of sanctions

Maduro deemed the meeting a “historic and transcendental event” and an important step to reactivating comprehensive joint work between the two countries

Solidarity activists continue to press US representatives to demand the end of deadly sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba.