No rights in Guantanamo prison

If the U.S. administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden had devoted the time to the humanitarian crisis at Guantánamo Bay prison that they spent harassing Cuba, the inmates in that enclave might be freed after many years of torture and imprisonment.... More


The year 2021 ended with new attacks and threats against indigenous peoples in Paraguay. Stripped of their lands, their livelihoods and sacred places they have been victims for years of violence by landowners and multinationals, protected by the state.... More


Hole of infamy

Tuesday, January 11th, was the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first victims to the prison built by the United States in the illegal base of Guantanamo, a site that in two decades became the center of all imaginable legal and human infamies.... More


Plutocrats and other evils

Millions of people around the world would like to erase 2021 from their memory -- a year in which lives were lost, families and loved ones continued to be separated and the economy remained in the doldrums, with the exception of a small group of wealthy people.... More


Where one is needed

Nursing is a service profession, in charge of providing care to people of all ages, hence the high valuation in Cuba to that specialty, and the recognition beyond borders, as confirmed in a recent agreement with Bahamas.... More


When Xiomara Castro assumes the presidency of Honduras on January 27th, she will have a great challenge: to face the prevailing violence in that nation, which with nearly ten million inhabitants is considered the most violent in Central America.... More


Happy New Year?

Thousands of cancelled flights around the world, schools, offices and other workplaces closed and a lot of uncertainty regarding the immediate future due to the COVID-19 pandemic, show that 2022 did not start better than last year ended.... More


The year has barely begun and already the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is once again drawing criticism for his irresponsible statements on vaccination against COVID-19, when in the South American nation the new variant Ómicron is already present, which, although apparently less lethal, is a threat to all, especially those not immunized.... More


Neither the vaccination process, through which 87 percent of Cubans received three doses of Abdala or Soberana, nor the affirmation that Omicron is more contagious, but less lethal, should arouse the belief that in this Caribbean nation the pandemic has passed.... More


Sisters and brothers united

Since my days as a young diplomat in the distant 1960, in the heights of Quito, I keep in one of my diaries a thought of Martin Fierro that now the CELAC ministerial summit in Buenos Aires brought to my memory.... More


Cuba keeps its history alive

Cuba has memory and keeps its history alive. The Homeland is nourished by the thoughts and actions of men and women who fought to bequeath us the country we have today, sovereign and independent and working to forge a better future for its children.... More


Americans remain as divided on many issues as they were last January, the country remains threatened by violence, and justice is far from unraveling the scope and masterminds of the assault on the Capitol in Washington.... More


Although COVID-19 brought affectations and put a pause in several works, in the past year it was possible to improve the population's access to drinking water and sanitation, an essential human right endorsed in our Constitution.... More


The year 2022 began with new actions by the United States against Cuba, as part of the criminal blockade it has maintained for almost six decades against the Cuban people in an attempt to asphyxiate it economically. Hence, the affected sector is tourism, the driving force of our country's economy.... More


The man in the park

The United States once again played the card of Venezuela's ghost president, Juan Guaidó, despite the balloon being deflated, at a time of a slight upturn in the South American country's economy, even in the midst of brutal sanctions.... More


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