Improved personnel stability and an increase in the quality of services are expected in Cuba following the announcement of substantial pay raises to over 440,000 healthworkers, all of whom have received the news joyfully.... More


Since his inauguration as president of the United States in January 2009, Barack Obama has already broken the record established by his prececesor, George W. Bush: Obama has successfully raised the bar on the number of daily deportations from the United States.... More


The Drama of Children in Florida

Nearly 500 children of both sexes have died in Florida over the past six years as a result of maltreatment by their parents and cuts in social aid programmes, this,according to a report by The Miami Herald. ... More


The United States Government and several members of the US Congress may be accused of openly supporting the activities of armed right-wing murderous groups that, in some communities of oil-rich Venezuela, are spreading disorder and death in an attempt to topple the legitimate administration of President Nicolas Maduro.... More


The governments of Cuba and Nicaragua have signed an important agreement that opens the road to increasing economic relations that should match the excellent level of their bilateral political links.... More


While fascist groups continue trying to spread violence and chaos and destroy the social and economic gains installed in Venezuela by the Bolivarian Revolution, the Government of that South American nation is standing fast in its efforts to improve the lives of all its citizens.... More


The relations between Cuba and Brazil are in dynamic evolution. Both countries are working together in several fields and are building model links that realize the intent of both economies. Today Brazil is the second most important commercial partner of Cuba. Mutual exchanges run into the hundreds of millions of dollars with prospects for further collaboration.... More


Cuba hopes that 2014 will be a good tourist year and first returns on the number of foreign visitors for January confirm this expectation.... More


Private Sector Grows in Cuba

The private sector of the Cuban Economy is growing every day as a worthy complement of successful State-run businesses. Given this, it is no anomaly, that the private sector enjoys full possibilities of technical training to enable it to be successful.... More


Exactly one year ago on Wednesday the world was shocked by the news: after a brave but unsuccessful battle against cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had died in Caracas.... More


Politicians in the United States and the European Union are insisting on the recognition of the sovereignty of the Ukraine, when the truth is that both entities are intervening in the internal affairs of that Eastern European country, interventions that have already led to the unseating of President Viktor Yanukóvich.... More


Fernando González, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly imprisioned in the United States, is not morally nor physically destroyed, as his jailers and the Miami mafia would have liked.... More


With its Pacific Alliance, the United States is attempting to reverse the failure of its colonial-inspired Free Trade Area of the Americas, that was definitely buried by Latin America at Argentina's 2005 Mar del Plata meeting. ... More


The efforts of the Government of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to eradicate child labor and concomitant poverty—the outcome of decades of neoliberal policies in that country and in Latin America—are commendable.... More


The World has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of people who consume illegal substances. Drug trafficking is a profitable business, generating billions of dollars as it claims thousands of lives around the globe. ... More


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