January 12, 206
To the public employee layoffs by the Argentinean government, today the workers of the telecommunications company and manufacture of satellites Arsat are added, according to the technicians of that state company. (more…)
January 15, 2016
The Economic Emergency Decree –approved by President Nicolas Maduro– is aimed to protect the health, housing, education and food rights of all Venezuelans and thereby ensure its progress (more…)
January 16, 2016
Pakistan on Saturday dispatched a ship carrying around 15,000 tons rice to Cuba as gratitude for Cuban support to Pakistan after 2005 earthquake. (more…)
A country is considered to be Ebola free if no new cases are reported for 42 days
January 15, 2016
Cuba was the first country to respond to the emergency, announcing that it would initially send a group of 165 health collaborators to Sierra Leone, a number which later increased. Photo: Granma
This Thursday, January 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the Ebola epidemic which erupted two years ago in West Africa, killing over 11,300 people. (more…)
By Iroel Sanchez on January 17, 2016
In recent weeks, several sources have been announcing a possible visit to Cuba by US President Barack Obama. This would be part of a Latin American tour that would include Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, in late March. (more…)
By Jorge Legañoa on January 12, 2016
July 20, 2015 – Josefina Vidal and Cuban Ambassador to the US Jose Ramon Cabañas stand with US officials at the opening of the Cuban Embassy in Washington. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Josefina Vidal Ferreiro has been closely linked to culture, language and the US political and academic events since she left to study in the former Soviet Union in 1979. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on January 11, 2016
Photo: Bill Hackwell, January 11 demonstration outside of invitation only investor’s event in San Francisco against obscene profits made by Gilead Sciences Inc.
There is nothing that reveals the ever widening disparity of wealth and access to health in the U.S. quite like the pharmaceutical corporations and their profits. (more…)
By Rafael Cancel Miranda on December 30, 2015
Open letter to Donald Trump
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Mr. Donald Trump: Either you are an ignoramus or passing yourself off as such; since America is a continent, it’s not a race. (more…)