By Alejandra Garcia on September 14, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Last week, the government of the Caribbean island announced the country will be ready to reopen its borders on November 15 when it is expected that over 90 percent of the Cuban population will be vaccinated against the COVID-19. (more…)
By Brenda Murillo on September 14, 2021
In recent months, there has been an increasing rise in the prominence and visibility of agitations in the media by the relatively obscure Republican congressman for the 25th District of Florida, Mario Díaz-Balart, the supposedly presentable face and representative of the anti-Cuban mafia in the United States Congress (more…)
By John Perry on September 9, 2021
Advances in health care such as new hospitals and Covid-19 vaccinations keep great numbers from migrating.
According to Reuters, when Daniel Ortega’s government “began arresting presidential contenders,” tens of thousands of people “slipped into exile” in the United States or Costa Rica. (more…)
By Ilka Oliva Corado on September 13, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
After the siege, the homeland becomes a perennial longing. The undocumented know it more than anyone else. It becomes that old letter of paper torn by so much folding and unfolding. It is in the memory of rainy days, of the milpa growing, of fresh chipilín flowers and the aroma of coffee cooked in a clay pot. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 11, 2021
20 years of the ongoing “war on terror” far exceeded the number of 9/11 victims, photo: Bill Hackwell
For Mexican journalist David Brooks, the most shocking moment of September 11, 2001, was not the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the U.S. Pentagon, but the hours that followed the attack. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on September 10, 2021
Vigil in honor of the victims of terrorism against Cuba, Plaza de la Revolución, Photo: Ismael Francisco
This September 11 people around the world will remember the victims of the attacks against the Twin Towers in New York. More than 3,000 lives were lost, several of them of Cuban origin. (more…)
September 10, 2021
Luis Almagro, photo: Picture-Alliance
The VI Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will be held on Saturday, September 18, and Mexico is aiming for that day to finalize the proposal for the reform or replacement of the Organization of American States (OAS), (more…)
By Orlando Oramas Leon on September 10, 2021.
The assassination of Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia in NYC, Sept. 11, 1980
September 11 marks a milestone in terrorism against the United States, but it is also a reminder that attacks of that nature against Cuba were organized and carried out in that country. (more…)