By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on January 12, 2024 from Havana
José R. Cabañas , photo, Bill Hackwell
At a time when political campaign events are in full swing with a view to the November 2024 US presidential elections, forecasts about individuals and parties are multiplying, both with a view to the highest executive office and with respect to majorities and minorities in senates and federal and state houses. (more…)
Excerpt from the Primakov Readings by Dr. José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 28, 2023
Let me first of all thank the organizers in the persons of Alexander Dynkin, Director of the Primakov Institute, and IMEMO President Feodor Voitolovsky. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the academic and diplomatic legacy of Yevgeny Primakov. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 21, 2023 in Havana
2023 Nation and Emigration Conference
During November 18 and 19, 371 Cubans residing in 56 countries attended the sessions of the IV Nation and Emigration Conference in Havana. Hundreds of relatives, officials, friends and acquaintances welcomed them and shared time with them, as many arrived several days before the formal schedules of the event, and even several days later many of them will walk around the Cuban geography in a thousand purposes. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on October 24, 2023 from Havana
Between the 17th and 18th of this October, the 3rd Conference on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) took place in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Emerging in 2013, from a proposal by President Xi Jinping, the BRI currently shows important results on a global scale, (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on September 12, 2023
May 2014, Victorville Penitentiary
When I was preparing to assume the responsibility as head of the Cuban Interests Section in the United States (mid-2012), I approached comrade José Anselmo López, who had been in charge of the Consular Section of that office in the late 90s of the 20th century and early 21st century, to ask him about his experiences on visits to U.S. prisons where the Cuban Five Heroes were unjustly held prisoners. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on September 8, 2023 from Havana
G-77 + China Summit in Havana, Sept. 15-16
As part of the preparations for the Summit of the G77 Group plus China, to be held in Havana this September 15, a draft declaration has been under discussion for months, to be approved by the heads of delegations attending the forum, and which would constitute the main political message to be projected by that conclave towards the future. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on August 31, 2023
photo: Abriendomundo
In recent days news circulated about the partial declassification by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of two Presidential Daily Briefings (PDB), prepared to be read by Richard Nixon. The first is dated September 8 and the second 11 of the same month, during the 1973 coup d’état against Chilean President Salvador Allende. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on August 15, 2023
illustration: guardian design
During the first fortnight of this month of August, the U.S. press has had among its main headlines those related to new judicial charges filed against former President Donald Trump, as well as announcements about the possibility of others being added. (more…)