Angry Puerto Rican public workers

The salary increase for firefighters and teachers, considered insufficient by the latter, introduced in Puerto Rico a tense waiting period, after protests by public workers.... More


Attacks against butterflies

Under different names and monikers, extreme right-wing groups in the United States are opening spaces and disrupting political and social life.... More


Hunger in the Horn of Africa

The joint action of three serious phenomena, intense drought, endless armed conflicts and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, is causing a severe famine in the Horn of Africa where a great number of human beings lack the minimum indispensable nutrients.... More


UNICEF together with Cuba

In times of pandemic, Cuba has counted on the invaluable support of UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, which since the sixties of the last century has accompanied the work of the Caribbean nation in favor of the well-being and integral development of its children and young people.... More


When the now president of the United States, Joseph Biden, offered to move away from the restrictive and inhumane policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, against undocumented migrants at the border with Mexico, many thought that more clement times would come for these people.... More


Pirates on the high seas

U.S. trickery to prevent the shipment of fuel to Cuba from foreign markets persists, despite the change of administration in Washington, according to authorities of the Caribbean country.... More


Police violence in Brazil

Police violence has taken hold in Brazil.  Every year thousands of people, mostly Black and poor, die at the hands of law enforcement officers, without justice in a large part of the cases.  It is also evidence the prevailing racism in Brazilian society that has been gaining ground with the arrival to the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.... More


More about Victoria Nuland

In his book "The Return of History and the End of Dreams," writer Robert Kagan defends the United States as an ambitious superpower, which has not renounced its vision of itself as the guide of the world, nor to try to shape it according to its political preferences.... More


COVID-19 has come to make even more visible what has not ceased to be a reality in the world, the discrimination and inequality of women in all areas such as economic, health and social protection. Although the disease caused by the new coronavirus has affected everyone, this sector of the population has been one of the big losers.... More


Cuban nickel brings income

Placed among its main exportable items, nickel represents an essential economic branch for Cuba, although little is said about it, given its strategic character and the U.S. encirclement.... More


The government of President Luis Arce has been making a difference, after the coup d'état of 2019 that set back the advances registered in Bolivia under the mandate of MAS, Movimiento al Socialismo, in essential branches such as health.... More


Precaution with longevity

Although the lethality rate in Cuba due to COVID-19 remains among the lowest globally, the number of elderly people who have died in recent weeks calls for reflection.... More


Error or rehearsal?

A lot of repercussions have been caused by an apparent mistake made by Bloomberg News, which for more than 30 minutes kept on its digital front page, apparently by mistake, a headline announcing that Russia started a military invasion against Ukraine.... More


Universities are called to contribute to the materialization of the UN Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals to move towards a better world, more equitable, fair and caring for its great biodiversity.... More


Appointment with the ballot box

Quite unusual elections, with the extraordinary amount of 25 aspirants to be the president of a country.... More


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