By Arleen Rodríguez Derivet on August 6, 2023
the current Cubadebate collaborators,
photo: Adrian Juan Espinosa,
In August 2003, most of us didn’t even have a cell phone of our own. And although the world was talking about that year as a year of transition for the Internet due to broadband and other advances, in Cuba the network of networks was something very incipient, a matter of experts, as it is often said when you feel that progress does not touch you. (more…)
August 6, 2023
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, observed today the 78th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 3, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
It is not exceptional for a U.S. senator to be investigated for corruption, but it is a record for him to have to appear in court twice for similar cause, in less than a decade.
Robert Menendez, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, escaped jail in 2018 when his corruption trial was declared a mistrial. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on August 4, 2023
Gold, silicon, oil (reserves estimated at 2 billion barrels) and above all uranium, essential for both French nuclear power plants and atomic bombs. Strategic raw materials for imperialism, which needs to consolidate its domination at the expense of the countries of the South. (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez on August 3, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
It was too expensive, for my monetary resources at the age of 16, to send a telegram to Cuba from Mexico. However, I did “the thousand and one” and was able to put in the telegraph office a message: “Comandante Fidel Castro: happy 26th of July anniversary”. To what address are you sending it,” the telegraph operator asked me, and I did not know what to say. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 3, 2023
photo: Ricardo López Hevia
On August 5, 2022, an explosion ripped through the Matanzas Supertanker base disrupting the city on what had been a rainy but apparently calm night. One of the eight oil tanks in the reserve was struck by lightning, causing it to collapse. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on August 2, 2023
I am not going to say anything new that others have not said before and I have referred to read people who have left an immense legacy in the thought of history. Therefore, in this opinion column, most of the ideas raised and exposed -with my contribution- are not new, but there are many who have been talking about them for decades. (more…)
By Jorge Lezcano Pérez on August 3, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The history of the social development of mankind leaves convincing evidence that all revolutions in the different latitudes of the world have had to face powerful external and internal enemies with the clear objective of preventing them, defeating them or, at least, diverting them from their paths and purposes. The Cuban Revolution is not and has never been an exception. (more…)