By Claudia Espinoza I. on October 19, 2022
photo: Julian Peters
This year Cuba had to face several battles from which -despite everything- it is emerging victorious. (more…)
October 20, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Turning to the UN Security Council, the OAS, and the US government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti today is akin to pleading with the arsonists to quell the fire they have unleashed. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on October 20, 2022
The second round of the Brazilian elections, on October 30, is probably the most important and bitter electoral confrontation in our America since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 18, 2022 from Havana
This October, Cuba remembers the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, a decision that triggered one of the worst crises of the so-called Cold War. For several days, the world was on the brink of a war with incalculable consequences, which showed the will of the Cuban people to defend their sovereignty at any cost. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on October 18, 2022
For someone who regularly follows the news about Latin America, it is common to have mixed feelings, not only because of the social, economic, environmental, and political scenario, but also because of the discourse from some politicians’ who can be beyond annoying because of their cynicism and the way they underestimate the people, who they all claim to work for, although few actually do it. (more…)
By Iroel Sanchez on October 18, 2022
“I am a man full of fear, I cannot sleep without chemical help, I am alone and I have lost confidence in everyone who walks the earth. I am always wary of being sold or of being approached and hurt”. This is what the writer Roberto Saviano said about his life after challenging the Neapolitan Mafia with his book Gomorrah. (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on October 17, 2022
Senator Marco Rubio
He must have considered it a midterm election campaign stunt to rile up the rabid anti-Cuba electors in his state, or to impress his benefactors, but Florida Senator Marco Rubio may have overstepped himself. On August 5 Rubio publicly announced from a senatorial bully pulpit his letter to the FBI accusing illegalities and requesting an investigation of high school teacher, U.S. military veteran and Cuban American, Carlos Lazo and the remarkable movement that has grown around him appropriately named Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 14, 2022
photo: Enrique Gonzalez
Ernest Hemingway learned in Cuba that the best way to get through a hurricane is to have your ears tuned to a battery-powered radio and keep your hands busy with a bottle of rum and a hammer to nail down doors and windows. The American writer appropriated the typical jargon of Cuban meteorologists and fishermen who speak of “the sea” in the feminine and of the hurricane as a demon or evil sorcerer, and who, when a storm leaves the island, usually say that “it entered in the channel” or that “it crossed the land.” (more…)