Salim Lamrani, Author at ZNetwork
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3232Pedro Sánchez’s Spain, the Honor of Europe
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedro-sanchezs-spain-the-honor-of-europe/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedro-sanchezs-spain-the-honor-of-europe/#respondThu, 05 Mar 2026 01:02:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295421In a Europe that has become vassalized and submissive to the United States, to the detriment of its own interests, one country nevertheless manages to save the honor of the Old Continent: the Spain of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Attached to the ancestral values of the Iberian people, the head of the socialist government refuses [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedro-sanchezs-spain-the-honor-of-europe/feed/0No to the Economic Suffocation of Cuba
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-to-the-economic-suffocation-of-cuba/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-to-the-economic-suffocation-of-cuba/#respondTue, 24 Feb 2026 17:01:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295131For more than six decades, the United States has been suffocating the Cuban people by imposing anachronistic and inhumane economic sanctions. These measures affect the most vulnerable sectors of the island’s population, particularly the sick, children, the elderly, and pregnant women, and have a dramatic impact on all sectors of Cuban society. Retroactive and extraterritorial [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-to-the-economic-suffocation-of-cuba/feed/0Venezuela: The United States Against the Sovereignty of Nations
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-united-states-against-the-sovereignty-of-nations/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-united-states-against-the-sovereignty-of-nations/#respondMon, 05 Jan 2026 20:04:29 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293117On January 3, 2026, at two o’clock in the morning, the United States declared war on Venezuela by bombing several strategic sectors of the capital and kidnapping the elected president, Nicolás Maduro. The latter, the victim of a betrayal at the highest level, was captured by elite troops from U.S. Special Forces during an operation [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-united-states-against-the-sovereignty-of-nations/feed/0The True Story of U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Cuba
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-true-story-of-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-true-story-of-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/#respondSat, 01 Nov 2025 13:28:47 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290724On October 29, 2025, for the 33rd consecutive year, during the United Nations General Assembly, 165 countries demanded the lifting of the United States’ unilateral economic sanctions that have been strangling the Cuban population since 1960. Unlike the previous year—when only Israel sided with Washington in opposing the resolution presented by Havana—this time five other [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-true-story-of-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/feed/0The Myth of “Anti-White Racism”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-myth-of-anti-white-racism/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-myth-of-anti-white-racism/#commentsSun, 30 Mar 2025 13:02:08 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281762For several years now, a phrase has been recurrent in French public debate, used to discredit discussions on discrimination: “anti-white racism.” It is mainly propagated by the far right, its supporters, and certain media outlets, often inclined to stoke social tensions to suppress any questioning of institutional racism affecting visible minorities, particularly those of immigrant [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-myth-of-anti-white-racism/feed/1José Martí and the Second Cuban War of Independence
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jose-marti-and-the-second-cuban-war-of-independence/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jose-marti-and-the-second-cuban-war-of-independence/#respondFri, 31 Jan 2025 18:20:55 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279106A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to gain independence and take control of its destiny. In the early 19th century, the Haitian people, guided by the example of Toussaint Louverture, broke the chains of slavery and defeated Napoleon’s army on the battlefield, delivering France’s [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jose-marti-and-the-second-cuban-war-of-independence/feed/0Unanimous Rejection of U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Cuba
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unanimous-rejection-of-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unanimous-rejection-of-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/#respondSat, 02 Nov 2024 16:33:24 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274697On October 30, 2024, at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, and for the 32nd consecutive year, 187 countries demanded the lifting of unilateral U.S. economic sanctions that have been suffocating the Cuban population since 1960. As usual, only Israel aligned itself with Washington, opposing the resolution put forward by Havana. Moldova, [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unanimous-rejection-of-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/feed/0Thirty Years Ago, Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returned To Haiti
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thirty-years-ago-jean-bertrand-aristide-returned-to-haiti/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thirty-years-ago-jean-bertrand-aristide-returned-to-haiti/#respondFri, 27 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272876Thirty years ago, President Aristide, victim of a military putsch, returned to power following the intervention of the United Nations. On December 16, 1990, at the end of an electoral campaign supervised by the UN but marked by violence, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, candidate of the National Front for Change and Democracy (FNCD), was elected President of [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/thirty-years-ago-jean-bertrand-aristide-returned-to-haiti/feed/0Cuba, the Island of Olympic Champions
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-the-island-of-olympic-champions/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-the-island-of-olympic-champions/#respondMon, 29 Jul 2024 14:24:17 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270041Before 1959, Cuba had a modest record of five Olympic medals, four of them gold, won in Paris in 1900, Saint-Louis in 1904 and London in 1948. At the time, sport was far from being a government priority, and the island’s few sports facilities were mainly concentrated in the capital and reserved for the bourgeoisie. [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-the-island-of-olympic-champions/feed/0“I Spent the Best Years of My Life in Cuba” – Marília Guimarães
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-spent-the-best-years-of-my-life-in-cuba-marilia-guimaraes/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-spent-the-best-years-of-my-life-in-cuba-marilia-guimaraes/#respondTue, 11 Jun 2024 16:30:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267688Born into a bourgeois family of Portuguese origin, Marília Guimarães was born in 1945 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. Marked by the injustices and social inequalities affecting her compatriots, she became aware of the reality of the class struggle at an early age. Following the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/i-spent-the-best-years-of-my-life-in-cuba-marilia-guimaraes/feed/0“For Us Cubans, Africa is Our Heart, Our Blood”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-us-cubans-africa-is-our-heart-our-blood/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-us-cubans-africa-is-our-heart-our-blood/#respondTue, 04 Jun 2024 16:15:31 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267403Born into a modest family in Sagua la Grande in 1937, Víctor Dreke experienced first-hand the realities of pre-revolutionary Cuba, marked by poverty, racism and discrimination of all kinds. He frequented working-class circles, particularly the sugar industry, which was very present in his native region, and identified with their demands for social justice. At the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-us-cubans-africa-is-our-heart-our-blood/feed/0Conversations with Rafael Bielsa
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conversations-with-rafael-bielsa/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conversations-with-rafael-bielsa/#respondFri, 24 May 2024 16:21:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266851Born in 1953 in Rosario, Argentina, into a family of eminent jurists, Rafael Bielsa developed a sensitivity to the plight of the underprivileged from an early age, thanks in particular to reading and religion. A practicing Catholic, he took a stand against the generals’ dictatorship, which broke the constitutional order in 1976. Arrested by the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conversations-with-rafael-bielsa/feed/0The Chagos Islands, The Story of a Crime Against Humanity
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-chagos-islands-the-story-of-a-crime-against-humanity/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-chagos-islands-the-story-of-a-crime-against-humanity/#respondThu, 09 May 2024 15:50:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266082Between 1966 and 1973, the entire population of this Indian Ocean archipelago was arbitrarily deported from their homeland to allow the installation of a U.S. military base. For over half a century, the Chagossian people have waged a struggle against colonial arbitrariness. On November 8, 1965, the Chagos Islands, under British sovereignty since 1810 following [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-chagos-islands-the-story-of-a-crime-against-humanity/feed/0Alice Walker: A Voice of Love, Revolution, and Resilience
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alice-walker-a-voice-of-love-revolution-and-resilience/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alice-walker-a-voice-of-love-revolution-and-resilience/#commentsSun, 28 Apr 2024 15:42:27 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265661Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, into a farming family of eight children, Alice Walker experienced racial segregation in the South of the United States from an early age. In her teens, aware of the reality of oppression, she became involved in the struggle for equality against the discriminatory policies imposed by the supremacist authorities. [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alice-walker-a-voice-of-love-revolution-and-resilience/feed/1U.S. Responsibility for Cuba’s Economic Crisis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-responsibility-for-cubas-economic-crisis-2/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-responsibility-for-cubas-economic-crisis-2/#respondFri, 29 Mar 2024 15:46:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264322 Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting the well-being of the population. On March 17, 2024, in Santiago, dozens of people peacefully expressed their discontent with the material difficulties of daily life. The generally well-informed US news agency [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-responsibility-for-cubas-economic-crisis-2/feed/0U.S. Responsibility For Cuba’s Economic Crisis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-responsibility-for-cubas-economic-crisis/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-responsibility-for-cubas-economic-crisis/#respondFri, 29 Mar 2024 03:45:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264273Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting the well-being of the population. On March 17, 2024, in Santiago, dozens of people peacefully expressed their discontent with the material difficulties of daily life. The generally well-informed US news agency The Associated Press [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-responsibility-for-cubas-economic-crisis/feed/0Cuban Doctors: A Solution To France’s Medical Deserts
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuban-doctors-a-solution-to-frances-medical-deserts/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuban-doctors-a-solution-to-frances-medical-deserts/#respondThu, 22 Feb 2024 17:34:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262578France is faced with the reality of medical deserts, and finds itself unable to offer all its citizens sufficient medical coverage. A report by the French Senate highlights the inadequacy of public policies to combat territorial inequalities in access to healthcare: “The health divide continues to widen between regions”. Medical deserts are not confined to [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuban-doctors-a-solution-to-frances-medical-deserts/feed/0Gabriel Boric, Venezuela and the Question of Human Rights
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gabriel-boric-venezuela-and-the-question-of-human-rights/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gabriel-boric-venezuela-and-the-question-of-human-rights/#respondMon, 05 Jun 2023 15:52:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1247153Since his inauguration as President of Brazil in January 2023, Lula da Silva has endeavored to relaunch the process of regional cooperation in a fragmented and divided continent. To this end, he organized the South American Summit, which brought together the zone’s presidents on May 29 and 30, 2023, to strengthen integration and dialogue between [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gabriel-boric-venezuela-and-the-question-of-human-rights/feed/0Five Questions Concerning the Presidential Elections in Cuba
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/five-questions-concerning-the-presidential-elections-in-cuba/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/five-questions-concerning-the-presidential-elections-in-cuba/#commentsSat, 05 May 2018 09:01:40 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1009893https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/five-questions-concerning-the-presidential-elections-in-cuba/feed/1How does US pursue ‘regime change’ in Cuba through ‘normalization’?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-does-us-pursue-regime-change-in-cuba-through-normalization/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-does-us-pursue-regime-change-in-cuba-through-normalization/#respondSat, 23 Apr 2016 09:00:32 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=985816https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-does-us-pursue-regime-change-in-cuba-through-normalization/feed/0A British NGO is the victim of economic sanctions by the United States Against Cuba.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-british-ngo-is-the-victim-of-economic-sanctions-by-the-united-states-against-cuba-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-british-ngo-is-the-victim-of-economic-sanctions-by-the-united-states-against-cuba-by-salim-lamrani/#respondFri, 14 Jun 2013 05:19:21 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-british-ngo-is-the-victim-of-economic-sanctions-by-the-united-states-against-cuba-by-salim-lamrani/feed/050 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/50-truths-about-hugo-chavez-and-the-bolivarian-revolution-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/50-truths-about-hugo-chavez-and-the-bolivarian-revolution-by-salim-lamrani/#respondSun, 10 Mar 2013 07:44:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/50-truths-about-hugo-chavez-and-the-bolivarian-revolution-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0Cuba, the European Union and the Rhetoric of Human Rights
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-the-european-union-and-the-rhetoric-of-human-rights-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-the-european-union-and-the-rhetoric-of-human-rights-by-salim-lamrani/#respondFri, 22 Feb 2013 16:44:08 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-the-european-union-and-the-rhetoric-of-human-rights-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0How to End Tax Exile
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-end-tax-exile-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-end-tax-exile-by-salim-lamrani/#respondTue, 15 Jan 2013 10:21:48 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-end-tax-exile-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0Migration Policy Reform in Cuba
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/migration-policy-reform-in-cuba-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/migration-policy-reform-in-cuba-by-salim-lamrani/#respondFri, 16 Nov 2012 08:25:03 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/migration-policy-reform-in-cuba-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0The European Budgetary Pact
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-european-budgetary-pact-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-european-budgetary-pact-by-salim-lamrani/#respondFri, 26 Oct 2012 19:09:42 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-european-budgetary-pact-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0The New Life of Cuban Dissidents in Spain
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-life-of-cuban-dissidents-in-spain-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-life-of-cuban-dissidents-in-spain-by-salim-lamrani/#respondTue, 24 Jul 2012 15:13:38 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-life-of-cuban-dissidents-in-spain-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0How to Resolve the Greek Crisis
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-resolve-the-greek-crisis-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-resolve-the-greek-crisis-by-salim-lamrani/#respondTue, 17 Jul 2012 15:46:29 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-resolve-the-greek-crisis-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0Public Debt in France and Europe
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-debt-in-france-and-europe-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-debt-in-france-and-europe-by-salim-lamrani/#respondThu, 12 Jul 2012 16:13:48 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/public-debt-in-france-and-europe-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0Cuba Sanctions and Development
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-sanctions-and-development-by-salim-lamrani/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-sanctions-and-development-by-salim-lamrani/#respondWed, 09 Nov 2011 20:25:01 +0000https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-sanctions-and-development-by-salim-lamrani/feed/0
In a Europe that has become vassalized and submissive to the United States, to the detriment of its own interests, one country nevertheless manages to save the honor of the Old Continent: the Spain of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Attached to the ancestral values of the Iberian people, the head of the socialist government refuses [...]]]>
For more than six decades, the United States has been suffocating the Cuban people by imposing anachronistic and inhumane economic sanctions. These measures affect the most vulnerable sectors of the island’s population, particularly the sick, children, the elderly, and pregnant women, and have a dramatic impact on all sectors of Cuban society. Retroactive and extraterritorial [...]]]>
On January 3, 2026, at two o’clock in the morning, the United States declared war on Venezuela by bombing several strategic sectors of the capital and kidnapping the elected president, Nicolás Maduro. The latter, the victim of a betrayal at the highest level, was captured by elite troops from U.S. Special Forces during an operation [...]]]>
On October 29, 2025, for the 33rd consecutive year, during the United Nations General Assembly, 165 countries demanded the lifting of the United States’ unilateral economic sanctions that have been strangling the Cuban population since 1960. Unlike the previous year—when only Israel sided with Washington in opposing the resolution presented by Havana—this time five other [...]]]>
For several years now, a phrase has been recurrent in French public debate, used to discredit discussions on discrimination: “anti-white racism.” It is mainly propagated by the far right, its supporters, and certain media outlets, often inclined to stoke social tensions to suppress any questioning of institutional racism affecting visible minorities, particularly those of immigrant [...]]]>
A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to gain independence and take control of its destiny. In the early 19th century, the Haitian people, guided by the example of Toussaint Louverture, broke the chains of slavery and defeated Napoleon’s army on the battlefield, delivering France’s [...]]]>
On October 30, 2024, at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, and for the 32nd consecutive year, 187 countries demanded the lifting of unilateral U.S. economic sanctions that have been suffocating the Cuban population since 1960. As usual, only Israel aligned itself with Washington, opposing the resolution put forward by Havana. Moldova, [...]]]>
Thirty years ago, President Aristide, victim of a military putsch, returned to power following the intervention of the United Nations. On December 16, 1990, at the end of an electoral campaign supervised by the UN but marked by violence, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, candidate of the National Front for Change and Democracy (FNCD), was elected President of [...]]]>
Before 1959, Cuba had a modest record of five Olympic medals, four of them gold, won in Paris in 1900, Saint-Louis in 1904 and London in 1948. At the time, sport was far from being a government priority, and the island’s few sports facilities were mainly concentrated in the capital and reserved for the bourgeoisie. [...]]]>
Born into a bourgeois family of Portuguese origin, Marília Guimarães was born in 1945 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. Marked by the injustices and social inequalities affecting her compatriots, she became aware of the reality of the class struggle at an early age. Following the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected [...]]]>
Born into a modest family in Sagua la Grande in 1937, Víctor Dreke experienced first-hand the realities of pre-revolutionary Cuba, marked by poverty, racism and discrimination of all kinds. He frequented working-class circles, particularly the sugar industry, which was very present in his native region, and identified with their demands for social justice. At the [...]]]>
Born in 1953 in Rosario, Argentina, into a family of eminent jurists, Rafael Bielsa developed a sensitivity to the plight of the underprivileged from an early age, thanks in particular to reading and religion. A practicing Catholic, he took a stand against the generals’ dictatorship, which broke the constitutional order in 1976. Arrested by the [...]]]>
Between 1966 and 1973, the entire population of this Indian Ocean archipelago was arbitrarily deported from their homeland to allow the installation of a U.S. military base. For over half a century, the Chagossian people have waged a struggle against colonial arbitrariness. On November 8, 1965, the Chagos Islands, under British sovereignty since 1810 following [...]]]>
Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, into a farming family of eight children, Alice Walker experienced racial segregation in the South of the United States from an early age. In her teens, aware of the reality of oppression, she became involved in the struggle for equality against the discriminatory policies imposed by the supremacist authorities. [...]]]>
Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting the well-being of the population. On March 17, 2024, in Santiago, dozens of people peacefully expressed their discontent with the material difficulties of daily life. The generally well-informed US news agency [...]]]>
Suffocated for more than six decades by the U.S. state of economic siege, Cuba is facing serious difficulties that are impacting the well-being of the population. On March 17, 2024, in Santiago, dozens of people peacefully expressed their discontent with the material difficulties of daily life. The generally well-informed US news agency The Associated Press [...]]]>
France is faced with the reality of medical deserts, and finds itself unable to offer all its citizens sufficient medical coverage. A report by the French Senate highlights the inadequacy of public policies to combat territorial inequalities in access to healthcare: “The health divide continues to widen between regions”. Medical deserts are not confined to [...]]]>
Since his inauguration as President of Brazil in January 2023, Lula da Silva has endeavored to relaunch the process of regional cooperation in a fragmented and divided continent. To this end, he organized the South American Summit, which brought together the zone’s presidents on May 29 and 30, 2023, to strengthen integration and dialogue between [...]]]>