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Giron: What Didn’t Happen

By René González Barrios on April 17, 2020

  Photo: Archivo de Granma

On April 19, 1961, on the Cuban sands of Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), a people’s army, or a people in arms, as we prefer to call it, overwhelmingly defeated the carefully prepared (more…)

Bolsonaro Fires Brazil’s Minister of Health over Disagreements in Handling the Coronavirus Crisis

April 16, 2020

Brazil’s health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, was fired Thursday after a meeting with President Jair Bolsonaro, ending a series of disagreements that had arisen over the president’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. (more…)

Cuba’s Interferon Saves Lives

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on April 16, 2020

Cuba’s interferon is saving the lives of patients with coronavirus on the island encircled by the United States, while also preparing vaccines against the disease, as will be explained (more…)

The COVID-19 Pandemic Makes Clear the Need to Cooperate Despite Political Differences

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement on April 16, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 can already be measured and will be assessed in the future by the striking numbers of people infected, the unacceptable numbers of deaths, the (more…)

Resisting Covid-19 in Haiti

By Pierre Labossiere on April 16, 2020

On March 19, 2020, shortly after international institutions made known that millions of dollars would be available to impoverished countries with COVID-19 cases, Haitian (more…)

Cuba Shares What It Has

By Ventura de Jesús on April 14, 2020

Another Cuban medical brigade has arrived in Italy, this time in Turin, with 21 doctors, 16 nurses and a logistics coordinator, joining the first brigade in Lombardy, the epicenter of the (more…)

Trump Fires His Own Workers While Generating Unemployment throughout the Country

By Gustavo Veiga on April 14, 2020

Behind the 17 million suddenly unemployed in the United States and with a probability to increase, there are life stories, names and surnames, workers suffering on two fronts; (more…)

Contrasting Health Systems

By Pasqualina Curcio Curcio on April 12, 2020

In the catalog of health provision and financing systems, we find a wide range, from the most private to the public and free of charge. There are systems whose provision and financing are (more…)

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