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UN Requests Authorization to Replicate Venezuelan Model against Covid-19

Friday, May 1, 2020

On Thursday the coordination of the United Nations System (UN) in Venezuela requested authorization from the National Government to study the strategy of (suppression) of the (more…)

Impressions from Cuba on May Day in the Pandemic

By Susana Hurlich on May 1, 2020, from Vedado in Havana

Photo: Ismael Francisco

This is a day in which we must remember and show our solidarity not only with our front line workers – those in the health sector – but with all working people everywhere. (more…)

Cuba is Ready to Aid the U.S. in its Fight Against COVID-19.

Thursday, 30 April 2020

Despite Trump’s sanctions, Cuba advocates international solidarity as the only way to overcome this pandemic.

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What Cuba Has to Teach, in Pandemic Times and Beyond

By Diana Block on May 1, 2020

In July 2019, I visited the Cuban Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) as part of the 50th Anniversary Venceremos Brigade. We were impressed by the (more…)

Cuba Responds to the Shooting Up of Their Embassy in Washington DC

By Bill Hackwell on April 30, 2020

Early this morning at least one assailant sprayed the front of the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC with rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle. DC metro police arrested  Alexander Alazo, 42 of Aubrey, Texas on the scene. In a police report (more…)

Vargas Llosa and the Pandemic: No to Life

By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on April 30, 2020

In this pandemic, as rarely seen in history, the contempt of capital for human life has never been so clear. The obsession of the vast majority of tycoons with not shutting down business (more…)

Cuba’s Embassy in Washington, DC Attacked with Assault Rifle

April 30, 2020

An unidentified person opened fire with an assault rifle outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC early Thursday morning and has been detained. The incident began around 2 a.m. outside the (more…)

Cuba: May Day in the Year of the Pandemic

By Bill Hackwell on May 1, 2020

Photo: Bill Hackwell

This photograph depicts how the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana usually looks on May Day-International Workers Day (IWD). Every year since 1959 when a revolution, whose (more…)

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