By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 10, 2023 from Havana
From left to right, top to bottom, Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Tim Scott and Mike Pompeo.
In recent weeks, names have been added to the list of U.S. politicians seeking the Republican nomination to run as candidates for the November 2024 presidential elections. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on April 18, 2023
Vinales, photo: Bill Hackwell
Since 2022 there was a family plan to go all the way to Viñales, Pinar del Río, to take a few days of vacation. Anyone who has visited it knows that it is one of those places (many) in Cuba that has special charms, which remain in the memory as a permanent debt. (more…)
By Dr. C José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on April 12, 2023
Fidel Castro speaking at the UN
Fidel Castro comes from the future to tell us once again: “Let the philosophy of dispossession disappear and the philosophy of war will have disappeared! Let the colonies disappear, let the exploitation of countries by monopolies disappear, and then humanity will have reached a true stage of progress!” (more…)
By Dr. Daud Abdullah on April 9, 2023
Jose Cabañas, foto: Bill Hackwell
Jose Ramon Cabañas Rodriguez served in the Cuban diplomatic service for 37 years. In 2015 he became his country’s first ambassador to the United States in 50 years. During his long and distinguished career, Cabañas was involved in some of the most difficult diplomatic challenges Cuba faced in recent decades. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on March 24, 2023
Thanks to a kind invitation from the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) we had the opportunity to participate in the High Level Workshop, jointly organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the highest Cuban scientific institution. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on February 27, 2023
On February 26, 1982, then-President Ronald Reagan instructed his Secretary of State to include Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, in accordance with the provisions of legislation passed three years earlier, known as the Export Administration Act (Section 6). (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on February 11, 2023
“Bob I really need to talk to you about Cuba.”
As happens every year, the act known as the presidential State of the Union address has just taken place in the U.S. Capitol, an exercise that has been carried out publicly and uninterruptedly since 1913 and that aims to provide a kind of balance on the situation of the country and the development of the agenda of the president, who at that time is in power. George Washington initiated the practice in 1790, but Thomas Jefferson discontinued it (the public session) in 1801. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on January 20, 2023 from Havana
The total number of undocumented migrants from Cuba is once again in the news. Once again this issue is related to the occurrence of an economic crisis in the country and the disrespect to the migration agreements signed between Cuba and the United States. In U.S. public opinion, the treatment of Cubans is perceived as a singularity that can be questioned. (more…)