May 16, 2023, Breaking News! The Washington DC City Council has just passed a resolution that adds its voice to the growing chorus of more than 80 city and state legislatures calling on President Biden and Congress to end the blockade on Cuba and remove the country from the State Sponsor of terrorism list.
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on April 18, 2023
Vinales, photo: Bill Hackwell
Since 2022 there was a family plan to go all the way to Viñales, Pinar del Río, to take a few days of vacation. Anyone who has visited it knows that it is one of those places (many) in Cuba that has special charms, which remain in the memory as a permanent debt. (more…)
By Marcos Roitman Rosennman on January 22, 2023
Simon Bolivar
The dreams of those who fought for political independence in Latin America at the beginning of the 19th century not only sought to put an end to the domination of the Spanish empire, but were also the bearers of a proposal for regional integration. However, their hopes clashed with a reality: the birth of imperialism. (more…)
By Owei Lakemfa on January 2, 2023
Ana Belen Montes
The United States, had during the Banana War, occupied Nicaragua in 1912. This gave rise to the Somoza political family, which ruled the country from that period until its overthrow by Nicaraguan youths under the banner of the Sandinista Movement in 1979. The popular Nicaraguan Revolution threw many youths across the world into a frenzy. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on December 20, 2022
The twentieth edition of the series of dialogues on Cuba in U.S. foreign policy, an exercise organized by the Center for International Policy Research (CIPI) at the headquarters of the Raúl Roa Higher Institute of International Relations since the dawn of the 21st century, has just concluded. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on November 30, 2022
photo: Alejandro Azcuy Domínguez.
The intense political, economic, commercial and financial activity carried out by the Cuban delegation headed by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in Algeria, Russia, Turkey and China has been classified as extremely important. (more…)
April 4, 2020
Student doctors in Cuba are trudging from house to house trying to identify cases of the coronavirus pandemic to stop it from spreading in the Caribbean island nation. (more…)
March 16, 2020
A British cruise ship carrying five passengers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is to dock in Cuba after being turned away by other countries. (more…)