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 Stella Calloni on March 15, 2020
The coronavirus, a new strain of the already existing one, whose mutation is being investigated has put the world between the solidarity and the misery of a dying system, (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…)
January 16, 2020
Is this a policy of carrot and stick as the saying goes? Amidst a very singular government strategy in matters of foreign affairs, (more…)
By Elson Concepción Pérez on January 15, 2020
On July 3, 1988, a U.S. missile shot down an Iranian civilian aircraft that was in flight from Iran to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, killing 290 people, including 66 children and 16 crew members. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on January 14, 2019
I just read a very interesting note by writer Peter Koenig about the renaissance and exasperation of barbarism in recent times, and I say exasperation because it has been a constant presence (more…)
By Elijah J. Magnier on January 9, 2020
It would be inaccurate to say the US will leave the Middle East. However, it is certain that the assassination of one single man – the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani – (more…)