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No One is Going to Rain on Our Party!

By Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba on November 12, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

On November 15, Cuba will reopen its borders, students will return to school; Havana, the capital of dignity, will await its 502nd anniversary, to celebrate as it has not been able to do in the last two years. National life will resume its course, with the greatest joy, but alert. (more…)

Biden Should Lift US Restrictions on Medical Aid so Cuba Can Share its COVID Vaccine

By Danny Glover and Arturo O’Farrill on November 12, 2021

photo: Ismael Francisco/ Cubadebate.

After successfully vaccinating 90% of its population with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Cuba has lifted its quarantine and is reopening the country to tourism. This is impressive for any country, let alone a small island nation that the U.S. has tried to permanently isolate from the world. (more…)

Cuba: Submissive Allies of a Discredited Empire

By Rene Vasquez Diaz on November 13, 2021

School in the Sierra Maestra, photo: Bill Hackwell

With the triumph of the Revolution, millions of humble Cubans discovered their own existence.  And they learned to read and write.  They built hospitals with free medical care, regardless of race or social or economic situation; even in the most remote areas of the mountains. And, for the first time in Cuba, immunizations were given against preventable diseases that had been killing people. (more…)

Cuba Is Reopening!

By Alfredo de Zayas on November 14, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

On November 15, social and economic life in Cuba returns to its rhythm.  Airports open their runways, tourism is revived. (more…)

Letter to the International Community: End the Blockade and the Destabilizing Actions against Cuba

November 10, 2021.

photo: Ismael Francisco

Letter signed by hundreds of world leaders and personalities in solidarity with the Cuban people and government up against the full-fledged destabilization attempts planned for November 15. (more…)

The US’s Delusions of a Coup against Cuba

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on November 11, 2021

photo: Bill Hackwell

The United States government already wants a triumphant color revolution in Cuba. It dreams, without any basis in political reality, that the end of the troublesome project of an independent, sovereign nation, of profound social justice and socialist orientation and in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the world, located for 62 years only 144 kilometers from its shores, is near. (more…)

Cuba: Nothing Will Tarnish Our Celebration

By Alejandra Garcia on November 11, 2021 from Havana

photo: Andrew Wragg

Cuba is getting ready to make a transition toward normalcy after more than one year of struggle against the pandemic. On Monday, thousands of children from first to fifth grade will return to classrooms as the country’s borders will be open to receive international travelers and all Cubans who have been unable to return home due to international health restrictions. (more…)

Peru: Can a Nation Be Rebuilt in 100 Days? 

By Marcos Maranges on November 11, 2021

Photo: Agencia Andina

Yesterday Peru’s President Pedro Castillo addressed the nation to talk about his government’s achievements during the first one hundred days of his presidency. It was a good speech, full of new and ongoing actions to improve the living conditions of a large part of the Peruvian people; (more…)

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