On the night of August 14, 1791 -- 230 years ago -- a secret ceremony was held in a place in Haiti called Bwa Kayiman, a Creole expression meaning Forest of the Caymans. It was the spark that generated the triumphant slave revolution in 1804.... More
Difficult times test us, and we Cubans have plenty of examples of episodes that have reaffirmed the solidarity that characterizes us. It could not, therefore, be any different in the face of the complex situation generated by COVID-19 and the tightening of the Washington's criminal blockade.... More
Although battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the school year usually ends in many countries around the world at the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere summer -- between July and August -- when courses, workshops and camps open in the United States to teach various things, including espionage.... More
The United States insists on saying that it is concerned about the Cuban people... a concern that ironically translates into the ongoing genocidal blockade that hinders the fight against COVID-19. ... More
Cubans celebrate "National Rebellion Day" in tribute to the Centennial Generation that attacked two barracks belonging to Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, under very adverse circumstances, which encourages us to reflect on those actions and renew our resolve to face the current difficulties.... More
Still with sobriety, but with firmness, the Cuban people celebrate one more anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo, a suitable date to take a brief look at our region 68 years after that historic day.... More
Social media analyst Julian Macias explained the campaign that has been carried on digital platforms against Cuba, and that has been reinforced in recent days.... More
Definitely the most important news received this week from Colombia, one of the most violent countries on the continent, has to do with the formal accusation against ten military personnel and one civilian, allegedly responsible for the death of 120 people in the case known as "False positives."... More
The United States, in its annual report on human trafficking released by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken -- a document that lacks any legal or moral authority whatsoever -- cynically and shamelessly accuses Cuba (for merely slanderous purposes and political blackmail) of insufficiently complying with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, when details and irrefutable evidence show quite the opposite.... More
Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. congressman, aide to several Republican presidents, and two-time defense secretary whose torture-laden tenure and ruinous legacy were defined by his lies in service of an unending war that's killed at least hundreds of thousands of people, died Tuesday at age 88.... More
The contempt that the current president shows towards the Indigenous people is notorious. He considers them sub-people and on December 1, 2018 he stated quite clearly: “Our project for the Indio is to make them equal to us.” And he advanced further: “There is not going to be a centimeter demarcated for indigenous reserve or for quilombolas.”... More
In the United States, more than 30,000 people die annually in incidents related to firearms, from suicides to mass shootings. An alarming figure that, far from decreasing, continue to increase, coupled with the rise in the sales of weapons in the U.S.... More
Conservatives in the European Parliament have consistently vilified Cuba. Attuned with the backward Republican Party in the United States and Cuban-American extremists present in that Congress, the right wing in the European Parliament seeks to suspend the European Union-Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement.... More
Cuban doctors have saved numerous lives in Bolivia. But after the coup d'état of November 2019 against the then President Evo Morales, the de facto authorities, led by the self-proclaimed president Jeannine Áñez, propitiated with their slanders the end of bilateral cooperation.... More
No matter what they call them -- syringes or needles or jabs -- many people in America and Europe have been promoting, for months now, the collection of financial resources in order to send to Cuba a package of basic inputs to deploy its awaited vaccination against COVID-19.... More
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