By Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba on September 2, 2024
Today Cuban schools opened their doors to receive more than one million 600 thousand students of the General Education System as a new school year begins. From very early in the morning, a parade in white, red and blue could be seen, where anxiety and joy were the protagonists of the encounter between the children of the previous year and the new ones, teachers, professors and students. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on September 2, 2024 from Havana
Photo: Enrique González (Enro)/ Cubadebate
Us. We revolutionaries, of Cuba and the world, if there is something we have to have, it is clarity. The enemy mutates, the context as well, but always behind it is the same background: to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. (more…)
August 31, 2024
Illustration: Cubadebate
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported Friday that it is ending its investigation of what is commonly known as “Havana syndrome,” a mysterious illness experienced by a number of spies, soldiers and diplomats who have reported sudden debilitating symptoms of unknown origin. (more…)
August 31, 2024
Honduran President Xiomara Castro. Photo: Xiomara Castro / X
Honduran President Xiomara Castro announced on August 28 that she ordered the suspension of the extradition agreement between her country and the United States. The move was in response to comments made by the US Ambassador to Honduras, Laura Dogu, regarding different high-ranking Honduran officials who had traveled to Venezuela. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on August 31, 2024
Havana, August 31 (RHC)– A shipment of 800 tons of wheat flour — collected by solidarity activists in the U.S. — has arrived in Cuba. The donation will provide bread for millions of people in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Matanzas and Havana. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 30, 2024
Image: Ajijchan.
How long does it take to change a child’s mind? The question was posed by Fidel Castro in December 1999 to psychologists, neuroscientists and pedagogues, when Miami relatives kidnapped the child Elián González, shipwrecked between the borders of Cuba and the US. (more…)
By Fabrizio Casari on August 20, 2024
NGOs, funded by various U.S. devoted themselves for years to organizing opposition to confrontation with the legitimate and democratically elected government.
The new law that will now regulate the activities of non-governmental organizations in Nicaragua, outlining the contours of their functions, is called “Alianza de Asociación” (Partnership Alliance). The new law redefines and specifies their legal nature, pointing out the association with the Nicaraguan State as the only possible contractual form for their work. (more…)
By Frei Betto on August 28, 2024
Frei Betto, photo: Bill Hackwell
Life is the dust that the gale raises in the street and spins out of control in the spiral of bewilderment, always surprising. (more…)