By Helen Yaffe on March 30, 2020
Cuban doctors setting up ICU field hospital in Lombardy Italy
Just weeks ago, in late February 2020, US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders was vilified by the US establishment for acknowledging education and healthcare achievements in revolutionary Cuba. (more…)
The representatives of the governments of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria and Venezuela to the United Nations have (more…)
By Katu Arkonada on March 28, 2020
Twelve years after the financial crisis of 2008, history is repeating itself, we do not yet know whether as a deeper tragedy or directly as a farce. (more…)
By Fidel Castro Ruz
Excerpts from Fidel’s 2003 speech in Buenos Aires
Since I am an optimist, I think this world can be saved, in spite of the mistakes made, in spite of the immense, hegemonic powers that have been created, because I believe ideas prevail over force.… (more…)
March 20, 2020
The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) in Cuba is working on a vaccine that could be used against the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on March 20, 2020
Wars, economic crises, natural disasters, and pandemics are catastrophic events that bring out the worst and best in people – both leaders and ordinary people – and also in social actors (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on March 4, 2020
The selection by the Chinese health authorities of Cuban interferon alpha 2B (IFRrec) among 30 other drugs to combat the new coronavirus Covid-19 should come as no surprise. (more…)
By Hugo Ríus on February 3, 2020
The outbreak of coronavirus originating in China has sickened thousands of people, but it has also generated another type of victim: Asians who are being discriminated against. (more…)