COVID-19 exposed how much the world lacks to guarantee human rights to all its inhabitants and how deep are the existing inequalities. Once again the developed nations showed their selfishness. The hoarding of vaccines against the disease caused by the new coronavirus left the poorest nations stranded, without the necessary immediate access to these drugs.... More


Pending maneuvers

As is known, Peru's President Pedro Castillo managed to evade a parliamentary trial for alleged "permanent moral incapacity" to govern, but that only means victory in one battle, because the right-wing war against his administration remains practically intact.... More


The final draft of the Family Code, soon to be submitted to Parliament, should remain in the interest of all Cubans, who will later have the opportunity to express their criteria in a scheduled consultation.... More


A change of the times

More than just a change of government is happening in the Federal Republic of Germany today, Wednesday, as an entire era came to a close with the handover of office from Angela Merkel to her successor, Olaf Scholz, ending a 16-year administration that had great repercussions inside and outside Europe.... More


The brotherhood between Cuba and Nicaragua was reaffirmed with the shipment of a new cargo of food from the land of Augusto Cesar Sandino to the land of Jose Marti, a gesture that some seem to dislike.... More


Last March, the process began to determine whether former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori should be tried for forced sterilizations carried out during his term in office, which lasted from 1990 to 2000,... More


With strength of mind and body

"As handsome as Maceo," many Cubans are accustomed to say when they try to illustrate the bravery of a person, because the hero Antonio Maceo (1845-1896) was wounded in a thousand battles and always recovered, until the fatal battle in San Pedro, on the outskirts of Havana, 125 years ago.... More


Rights not so rights

The United States likes to present itself as the country of dreams and human rights and hands out praise and sanctions to other peoples as an implacable arbiter, despite the fact that it is one of the countries that has signed or ratified the fewest international conventions on this subject in the entire planet.... More


For weeks now, Uruguayan society has been immersed in an intense debate. Alarms have been set off by the trap that hides a controversial initiative to benefit prisoners over 65 years of age under house arrest.... More


Cuba faces the last month of 2021 with a hopeful course of Covid-19 after a tense period, but with exhortations to sustain hygienic-sanitary provisions, while scientists look for new ways against variants of the disease.... More


Agitated, controversial and widely questioned has been the mandate of Jair Bolsonaro since he assumed the presidency of Brazil in January 2019.... More


Announced coup 

The Congress of the Republic of Peru will decide tomorrow, Tuesday, whether to subject President Pedro Castillo to a process for alleged "permanent moral incapacity" to govern, which could lead to his dismissal four months after he began his work.... More


Low prospects

The Latin American and Caribbean region is one of the hardest hit in the world by the health crisis generated by COVID-19, which keeps the moderate economic and social progress achieved in recent decades in danger of disappearing.... More


The Second Cuba 2021 Business Forum, which took place this past week both virtually and in person, was attended by a large number of foreign participants and showed the interest of business people from all over the world in the potentialities and opportunities offered by the Caribbean nation, backed by a safe and responsible legal framework.... More


In a memorable, even daring gesture, Barbados put an end to the British monarchy and officially became an independent republic, amidst the celebration of its people.... More


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