By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on June 12, 2021
Down with the Cuban Adjustment Act. Photo: Bill Hackwell
The insistence with which U.S. government officials repeat that Cuba “is not a priority” is reminiscent of a song by Ricardo Montaner that says more or less the same thing to a scornful love. Only in the case at hand, the facts belie the words. (more…)
By Juan José Olivares Tiempo in La Jornada on June 10, 2021
Silvio Rodriguez, photo: Bill Hackwell
Once, a farmer from a Latin American country who had been cured by a Cuban doctor said that what impressed him most was that “Cuba did not offer what it had left over, but shared what it had”. (more…)
A film produced by Resumen Latinoamericano about the untold story of Cuba’s contribution to help victims of Chernobyl.
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By Alejandra Garcia on June 10, 2021
Photo: radiomacondo.fm
Colombia is no longer news. In the past 24 hours, over 50 people were injured by agents of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) during a new night of terror and police brutality. But few outlets of the mainstream media are covering the reality of this Latin American country, whose people have been protesting in the streets against President Ivan Duque for over one month. (more…)
By Luis Hernández Navarro on June 8, 2021
The size of the electoral triumph of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018 made some of his supporters believe that an overwhelming victory in the midterm elections three years later would be inevitable. (more…)
By Angel Guerra Cabrera on June 10, 2021
The dictatorship of the algorithm is the title of a very interesting Cuban documentary premiered on the island on June 4 on television (see its official FB page). Directed by Javier Gómez Sánchez, it effectively dismantles not only the economic and political interests behind algorithms, those supposedly neutral mathematical models, but also the intensive use of the Internet by the United States as a weapon in its multidimensional, or fourth generational, war against Cuba. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on June 9, 2021
Pedro Castillo reaches the final stretch of the electoral recount with a difference of some 80,000 votes in his favor. The only thing missing is the official ratification of his victory, something that should be resolved in the next hours. The ambiguity of the figure is due to the infinitesimal variation that could result from the examination of observed tally sheets, incorrectly filled out or with illegible signatures. (more…)
By Julio César Hernández Perera on June 6, 2021
Abdala vaccine being given in Holguin, photo: Juan Pablo Carreras Vidal / ACN
The COVID-19 pandemic has made us meditate in many directions; it has made us realize, once again, the vulnerability of our species, and the need to work united and selflessly.
In order to seek experiences and stop replicating mistakes, the current pandemic has motivated the dusting off of similar episodes. Such reviews allow us to affirm that there is nothing new in noticing how a virus is capable of drastically changing the course of human life. (more…)