By Melinda Butterfield on June 14, 2023
Melinda Butterfield at CENESEX, Photo: Serena Sojic-Borne
Returning from 12 days in Cuba in mid-May, I spent an uncomfortably long six-hour layover at the Miami airport, waiting for my connecting flight to New York. (more…)
June 13, 2023
Humanized monoclonal antibody nimotuzumab
The Chinese National Drug Administration approved on Monday the commercialization and use of nimotuzumab, a Cuban humanized monoclonal antibody for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on June 13, 2023
Texas governor’s million dollar Floating Border Wall
It is hard to imagine it could get any worse but another calamitous situation has been created at the U.S.-Mexico border, due to the new policies implemented by Joe Biden’s administration, which have forced hundreds of migrants to wait on the Mexican side. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 13, 2023 from Havana
Heavy rains are leaving a desolate panorama in eastern Cuba. Entire communities are buried under thick mud and water due to the torrential and prolonged rains that have been lashing the country for the past weeks. So far, six people have lost their lives in the floods, and more than 39,000 are sheltered in the homes of neighbors, relatives, or state facilities, according to official reports from the government. (more…)
By Seth Donnelly on June 10, 2023
image: Emory Douglass
“As the people of Haiti continually attest, we women in the Grandans are clear that since the coup d’etat of February 29, 2004, this has been the plan to wipe out the Haitian people and our country. We call on all women’s organizations, popular organizations, students and all to stand against this system that generates the high cost of living, misery, corruption and rape that are destroying our lives…”
– From a press release on March 17th, 2023, by Haitian women’s and popular organizations in the Grandans Department of Haiti. (more…)
By Xavier Lasso on June 11, 2023
photo: EFE
It has been almost ten years since Edward Snowden’s adventures in his quest to reach Ecuador. Snowden had chosen Ecuador because Julian Assange was an illustrious guest at the embassy in London. The Ecuador of that time was different, it had sovereign dreams, it was part of the proposals of the Patria Grande, (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on June 9, 2023
Economist Judith Valencia is a professor emeritus at Venezuela’s Central University and a member of the Network of Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity. In this interview, Valencia talks about the evolution of Hugo Chávez’s approach to geopolitics and the recent reactivation of the Union of South American Nations [UNASUR], an institution for continental integration that was born under Chávez. (more…)
June 8, 2023
The Amazon
The government of leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will launch a social program with economic aid to vulnerable families working in the conservation of the Amazon rainforest that is a similar program that was repealed by the previous president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). (more…)