By Ventura de Jesús, on April 18, 2025 from Ciénaga de Zapata
“After that initial fear, and without even realizing it, I became a ‘monster’ and kept going all the time,” recalls Anastasio. Photo: Ventura de Jesús García
At 92 years of age, Anastasio Suárez Rodríguez is what you might call a venerable elder, and as if that weren’t enough, he still has a burning desire to continue working for the Revolution. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on April 19, 2025
Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive deportations,” halting the “flood of drugs,” combating “threats to US security,” and stopping other countries from “ripping us off” in trade. The over 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine is alive and on steroids. (more…)
By Cecilia Paz on April 17, 2025
Cuban doctors arrive in South Africa in 2020 to support efforts to curb COVID-19. Credit: Flickr/governmentza (CC BY-ND 2.0)
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe. On Feb. 25, Rubio restricted the visas of anyone involved in Cuba’s overseas medical missions. This includes doctors, their families, and foreign officials who work with Cuban doctors. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcon on April 19, 2025
“This is a total crisis. People are dying of hunger. They don’t have money to buy the medicines they need. They have stopped receiving health services and water. Everything has come to a standstill,” an international NGO worker operating in Sudan, which has been rocked by civil war since April 2023, told EFE. (more…)
By Victor Ego Ducrot on April 15, 2025 from Buenos Aires
Argentine unions are calling for more demonstrations this week. photo: Bill Hackwell
The stagnation driven by Donald Trump’s tariff policies, intended to save the dollar from collapse—the US debt and trade imbalance is measured in trillions—is global in nature, but will fall hardest on countries euphemistically referred to as developing or emerging. (more…)
April 17, 2025
Trump the Panama Canel is not for sale
A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Panamanian Ministry of Public Security and the US Department of Defense has been filed with the Constitutional Court. (more…)
By Jorge Ernesto Angulo Leiva onApril 16, 2025
photos: Ricardo López Hevia
“A cry of rebellion and hope rang out loudly on April 16, 1961,” proclaimed Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and its first secretary in Havana, describing the proclamation of the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
April 16, 2025 from Havana
The Faustino Perez Hospital in the western Cuban province of Matanzas offers specialized consultation for persons interested in transgender transition, as a new service. (more…)