By Enrique Milanés León on April 30, 2022
Gerardo Hernandez, Bill Hackwell and Graciela Ramirez inaugurate tribute to Alicia Jrapko Photo: Yaimi Ravelo
“The Felix Elmusa award shone brighter on her chest and she honored them more than the medal honored her,” said Tubal Paez, former president of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) at yesterday’s tribute to the Argentine sister’s life at the Casa de la Prensa. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on April 27, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
The World Meteorology Organization just released a report about the state of the climate in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1998 to 2020. The results are just alarming and expose how Latin America is one of the most affected regions due to climate change. Even when it is a worthy document, it does not say anything we have not come to realize already. (more…)
April 26, 2022
Thirty photographs of the dear friend of Cuba, Alicia Jrapko, will be exhibited this Friday, April 29, at 10:00 a.m., at the headquarters of the Union of Journalists of Cuba in Havana, as a tribute to the former coordinator in the United States of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity and Co-Chair of the National Network of Solidarity with Cuba in that country. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on April 26, 2022 from Havana
photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Cuba is a very particular country on the continent. The existence of a socialist revolution makes it the focal point of the harhest criticism from mainstream media. Last weekend, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel was interviewed by the Latin America political analyst Atilio Boron. (more…)
April 25, 2022
Denis Moncada
The government of Nicaragua, through its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denis Moncada, announced yesterday the withdrawing of Nicaragua from the Organization of American States (OAS) as a result of the organization’s interference in the country. (more…)
By Agustín Lage on April 26, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
This commentary will be published several days before the celebration of International Workers’ Day, on this May 1, 2022. It has been 136 years since that Saturday in 1886 when 200,000 workers in Chicago went on strike to demand the 8-hour workday; and every celebration of this day always makes us think. (more…)
By Claudia Fonseca Sosa on April 25, 2022
photo: Minrex
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced today before the national and foreign press that the U.S. government has decided to exclude Cuba from the preparations for the upcoming Summit of the Americas, to be held in Los Angeles from June 8 to 10. (more…)
By Ilka Oliva-Corado on April 25, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
Begoña wraps herself in a blanket that she grabs from the living room couch and walks down the steps of the building; she lives on the third floor. She starts the car and returns to her apartment, pours four spoonfuls of coffee in the coffee pot and two cups of water, as soon as the coffee is ready she goes to take a bath with cold water to finish waking up, (more…)