By Alejandra Garcia, on June 29, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The pandemic is growing unabated in Cuba amid authorities’ efforts to immunize the population. This Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) informed that over 1 million citizens have already received three doses of home-grown vaccines. However, this encouraging news came with another one that has raised all the alarms: in the last 24 hours, Cuba surpassed the 3,000 cases of COVID-19 for the first time in one year. (more…)
By Miguel Necoechea on June 27, 2021
Cristiana Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Félix Maradiaga Blandon and Juan Sebastián Chamorro
Luis Carrión Cruz, former commander of the Revolution and member of Unamos, the new organization that emerged from the dissolution of the Movimiento Renovador Sandinista, a small dissident group led by the Nicaraguan petty bourgeoisie that won only 6. 4 percent of the votes in the 2006 presidential elections (since than it has no longer participated) is wrong (more…)
June 28, 2021
Cuba diplomat Félix García Rodríguez murdered in NYC
Last Friday the US government released the notorious anti-Cuban terrorist Eduardo Arocena, after serving 39 years in prison according to El Nuevo Herald.
Arocena was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States after being found guilty of “terrorism, acts of intimidation and murder” against persons and entities linked to Cuba almost four decades ago. (more…)
By Pasqualina Curcio on June 28, 2021
A whole debate has been going on worldwide about the exemption of covid-19 vaccine patents. The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom warned governments and pharmaceuticals that, “unless we eliminate the virus everywhere, we could end up back at square one.” (more…)
By Idris Mayya on June 25, 2021
Cuban soldiers dressed in white. Photo: Ariel Ley Royero
Undoubtedly, what happened on June 23, 2021 in the halls of the United Nations represents a Cuban diplomatic victory par excellence, a victory of reason against falsehood, of truth against lies and hypocrisy, of good against evil. (more…)
By Alvaro García Linera on June 27, 2021
Vargas Llosa, photo: Frederico Xolocotzi
All things age; living organisms, people and ideas. It is the harshness of the second law of thermodynamics. But there are worthy ways to do it, remaining loyal to the principles with which the zenith of existence was reached, aware of the mistakes and without regrets or last minute transformations. (more…)
June 25, 2021
During his participation in the ceremony to celebrate the Bicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo, the historic deed that sealed the independence of Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro stressed that the emancipation and anti-imperialist spirit of Carabobo is today found in the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our America (ALBA) and in the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples. (more…)
June 27, 2021, Caracas Venezuela
”The Freedom of the New World is the Hope of the Universe.”
-Simón Bolívar
Capitalism is experiencing a systemic and multidimensional crisis. Humanity is suffering the economic consequences of this crisis and especially, its effects on people with less purchasing power. (more…)