Anonymous heroes

When the explosion at the Saratoga Hotel last May, which left 46 victims dead and dozens injured, Cubans did not think twice and voluntarily came to donate blood to help save the lives of their compatriots.... More


Winds of change

With the first round of the legislative elections in France over, the government of President Emmanuel Macron is in serious danger of losing the absolute majority in the National Assembly, which will make it much more difficult to move forward with his liberal work program.... More


A key week

A definitive week begins in Colombia to designate the future president of the Republic between a progressive candidate, the senator and former mayor of Bogota, Gustavo Petro, and the conservative millionaire Rodolfo Hernandez, favorite of the local and regional right wing.... More


Solidarity cannot be blockaded

The United States excluded Cuba from the ill-fated Summit of the Americas in the city of Los Angeles, denying it the floor.  But if there is something that cannot be silenced, nor blockaded, it is the solidarity that grows every day towards the Cuban people -- for more than 60 years of a criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade.... More


The summit that was not to be

Nothing better illustrates the failure of the so-called Summit of the Americas, an absurd and inopportune meeting, than the images of the violent police aggression against a woman who protested as U.S. President Joseph Biden's motorcade passed by on its way to inaugurate the event.... More


New and hopeful perspectives are opened in Cuba for ataxia patients, who have lack of muscle control or coordination of involuntary movements and can create difficulties in speech, swallowing and eye movement.... More


Manichean world

It is striking how many politicians and officials, including UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, blame the war in Eastern Europe for almost all the ills that today plague humanity, but blatantly ignore old tragedies.... More


The backfire

The United States, as it is popularly said, got the wrong end of the stick. It convened and organized a Summit of the Americas, but without the participation of all nations, which led to numerous questions and several leaders of the region even decided not to go to the meeting, described as a failure by analysts.... More


The first panel of the People's Summit in Los Angeles, opened Wednesday with a call for an end to the U.S. government's policy of suffocation against Cuba.... More


A misty horizon

The World Bank this week painted a gloomy picture where it forecasts that the global economy will suffer a severe downturn, both in developed countries and in poor nations, and many will enter a recession stage with a serious impact on the quality of life.... More


Cuba cannot be silenced

Although the United States excluded Cuba from the so-called Summit of the Americas and denied visas to representatives of Cuban civil society for their participation in the People's Summit, the Caribbean nation is heard in the U.S. city of Los Angeles.... More


Feet of clay

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, avoided a vote of no confidence in Parliament and will be able to continue in office, but analysts and politicians point out that this could be the beginning of the end of a government highly questioned for its ineptitude and the shadow of several scandals.... More


Popular consultation and referendum are two mechanisms of participation of Cubans that will endorse the new Family Code, whose 25th version was presented in recent days by the Drafting Commission of the project during a meeting with the highest authorities of the country.... More


A festering struggle

There are 12 days left for the second round of presidential elections in Colombia, an event that could bring a dramatic change to the governmental management model after many decades of dominance by conservative, neoliberal and exclusionary political forces.... More


The hypocrisy of a summit

Building a sustainable, resilient and equitable future" is the motto of the anti-democratic Summit of the Americas, in the U.S. city of Los Angeles, organized by the United States, which contrary to what it proclaims, maintains a genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, designed to cause hunger, disease and despair among the Cuban people.... More


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