By José Ramón Cabañas on February 8, 2022
José Ramón Cabañas with other officials from Cuba and the US at the opening of Cuban Embassy in Washington, July 20, 2015. photo: Bill Hackwell
In conversations with neighbors, experts, young people and following the thread of our national press, it is common to hear the assessment (true by the way) that there has been a brutal onslaught of the United States against Cuba in recent years. A number of arguments have been put forward that make this assertion undeniable, the evidence is everywhere. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 10, 2021
Jake Sullivan
On November 7, 2021, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was questioned on a CNN program about his boss’s delay in fulfilling campaign promises regarding relations with Cuba. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 9, 2021
Acoustic damage? No, there is nothing worse than someone who doesn’t want to hear. Image: Osal
On October 8, 2021, Joe Biden signed into law a bill that had been unanimously passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives, in a rare show of bipartisanship in today’s US politics. The law will be known by the suggestive name of HAVANA, as its drafters intentionally sought a title that would establish a link between the Cuban capital and the alleged, or real, health symptoms reported by US officials at their embassy since November 2016. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on September 11, 2021
Vigil in honor of the Victims of Terrorism against Cuba, Revolution Square, October 5, 2016. Photo: Ismael Francisco / Cubadebate
This September 11, people around the world will remember the victims of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. More than 3,000 lives were lost, many of them Cuban. Their families are still reeling from their loss and, in some cases, have not even been able to recover the remains of their loved ones. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on September 7, 2021
A man with alcohol on his breath enters a place where students are gathering and starts beating one of the young men. He demands over and over again that he acknowledge paternity of the child his daughter is carrying. The young man is beaten so badly that he is almost exhausted. When the offended assailant returns home, he discovers that the pregnancy test he found in his daughter’s room was not hers, but a neighbor’s. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 10, 2021
Foto: Michael Ciaglo
Several articles have appeared in the US press in mid-2021 citing the impact of the “Cuban vote” as a likely reason why the Joe Biden administration has not yet corrected the setbacks in bilateral relations with Cuba under the previous administration. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on May 31, 2021
Aldo López Gavilán. Foto: Archivo
From early May 2021 to the first days of June, the third anniversary of the Festival Artes de Cuba (Arts of Cuba Festival) will be celebrated at the Kennedy Center[1], the most important cultural institution in the US capital. During those days in 2018, a delegation of 427 artists, intellectuals, and promoters of Cuban culture took part in a complex program of presentations ranging from the visual arts and cinema to theater and ballet. More than 100 of those Cubans traveled to Washington, D.C., from their current places of residence outside the island. (more…)