The visit to Havana of Cuban composer, arranger and pianist Ignacio "Nachito" Herrera, a Cuban-American resident in the United States, left a deep mark of sensitivity, beyond the musical presentations.... More


Of lime and sand

The director general of the World Health Organization, WHO, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that this year the acute phase of the covid-19 pandemic could be lifted, but at the same time warned that new variants of the virus are possible, even more transmissible and dangerous.... More


Every day there are growing calls for the Spanish multinational Repsol to assume its responsibility for the spill of six thousand barrels of oil on the coast of the district of Ventanilla, province of El Callao, in Peru, which today is experiencing its worst ecological disaster in recent times.... More


U.S. lost in the backyards

In the lackluster attempts to reflect the distance of the Donald Trump era, the U.S. Democratic administration is stuck in contradictions, as in the appreciation of its relationship with Latin America, a blunder to which the Cuban Foreign Ministry has drawn attention.... More


The Enemy Within

The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, asked the U.S. federal government for help to contain the traffic of firearms in that city, after several incidents occurred in the past few days that left a number of dead and wounded.... More


In 2017, Puerto Rico declared bankruptcy, faced with the impossibility of paying its public debt of more than 70 billion dollars.  Given this situation, the United States had already approved a year earlier the misnamed Promesa Act, one more mechanism of the colonial rule it exercises over the Latin American nation, which it tries to present to the world under the deceptive condition of a Commonwealth.... More


Cuban literature lovers are eagerly awaiting the return of the Havana International Book Fair, which was originally scheduled for next February but has been postponed to April, since the largest number of people visiting us on that occasion come from Latin America, which is facing a difficult situation due to the COVID 19.... More


Are the Russians coming?

U.S. President Joseph Biden and some of his top officials are doing everything possible to heat up the latest episode of the new cold war, which targets the government and people of Russia and could lead humanity to a catastrophe.... More


A year with Biden

The president of the United States, Joseph Biden, completed this January 20 a year of being in the White House without fundamentally responding to the enormous expectations aroused by his election, both inside and outside the main economic and military power of the moment.... More


Barbados on its own path

The world's youngest republic, Barbados, held elections in which the Labor Party of Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who proposes an ambitious plan to get out of difficulties, won a resounding victory.... More


Modern, inclusive and in line with the characteristics of today's Cuban society is the draft of the Family Code, which from February will enter an important phase with the popular consultation throughout the country, a process that will last until April.... More


Crossfire in Colombia

Shortly after a dramatic call by Venezuelan authorities for an intervention of the competent agencies to stop violence in Colombia, the murder of a teenager dedicated to environmental protection was reported in Colombia.... More


Cuba has been able to give life to three highly effective and safe vaccines against COVID 19, which have allowed a large part of its population to be currently immunized against a disease that is advancing vertiginously around the world. In addition, they are a hope for the less developed nations in the face of the selfishness of the richer ones.... More


Spy in the house

Since the creation and use of the spying program Pegasus, developed by the Israel-based company NSO Group, became known, there have been numerous denunciations about the invasion of the privacy of politicians, governors, businessmen or human rights defenders around the world.... More


Stolen childhood

One of the problems that Gabriel Boric will inherit when he assumes the presidency of Chile, a ceremony scheduled for March 11, will be the lurid issue of the thousands of children who were stolen from their families during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, between 1973 and 1990.... More


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