By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on December 17, 2024
Celebration in Washington DC after the return of the Cuban 5 to their homeland. photos: Bill Hackwell
On that December 17, Cubans, Americans and citizens from all over the world began the day with news and rumors that foretold that it would be a singular day. It was reported that at midday both Army General Raul Castro Ruz and President Barack Obama would make public announcements. (more…)
By Zoe Alexandra on November 4, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
As the people of the United States head to the polls, people across the world are left to wonder how a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris victory will impact their countries, given the global hegemon’s central role in geopolitics. This is especially true in the socialist Republic of Cuba, which for over 65 years, has faced a comprehensive economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the US government and maintained continuously by different Democratic and Republican administrations. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez, October 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Introduction
In September 2024, the United Nations (UN) launched a call for a Pact for the Future to guide the achievement of global development goals for humanity. Around the same time, in mid-October 2024, the 25th anniversary of the Budapest World Science Conference was celebrated. This event, held under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Science Council (ISC), was the greatest effort by the global scientific community to alert society and governments around the world to the opportunity to choose a commitment and priority to promote ways of achieving sustainable development and to provide the world with a code of conduct and a framework for action that could lead to the creation and consolidation of a global knowledge society, which in turn could build a sustainable future (UNESCO, 2000). (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on August 15, 2024
The “senior official” who preferred to remain anonymous knows as well as all of us that what is needed to advance U.S. relations with Cuba is political will. In the Caribbean we call it “pants”.
Two days ago the U.S. publication Politico published an article entitled “Washington and Havana are stuck in a diplomatic impasse”, that compels us to make some clarifications. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on August 8, 2024 from Havana
The Kamala-Trump-Walz-Vance equation (Jessica Sosa Sosa / Cubahora)
While Walz exhibits concrete results at all levels, Vance appears to most voters as a question mark… (more…)
photo: Ismael Batista Ramírez
An interview with the Director of the Center for Investigations of International Politics (CIPI) José Ramón Cabañas, to the Spanish press outlet El Periódico on June 14, 2024
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By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 28, 2024
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
On March 17, extraordinary events took place in Cuba, which once again received disproportionate coverage in the social networks and some foreign media considering the type of disasters we are experiencing in today’s world. They are “extraordinary in Cuba” because this has not been a country where the forces of law and order walk with long guns in the streets, there are no armored cars to confront demonstrations with strong jets of water, nor are there cases of loss of eyes due to the use of rubber bullets. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on March 7, 2024
illustration: Jamie Brown
During the current year, a great deal of energy is being invested in trying to predict who will be the winner of the presidential elections next November in the United States, which party will win the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, allowing or not the President to have the necessary support to develop his agenda for the next four years. (more…)