By Alejandra Garcia on June 16, 2022, from Havana
photo: Irene Perez
Every third Sunday of June, Cuban families celebrate Father’s Day, a tradition we inherited from the United States in 1938. But this Sunday will be different. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 14, 2022, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Today, Cuba remembers Ernesto Che Guevara on the 94th anniversary of his birth in Rosario, Argentina. Although he was born in distant lands, the Caribbean island considers him its son, (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 6, 2022 from Havana
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Yesterday June 5th, the world marked International Environment Day, a date to raise awareness among humankind about the care and rescue of our common home, a struggle that Cuba has made a priority for decades. This should be a day where the whole world stops to reflect and take action against the alarming deterioration of the planet but unfortunately, especially in the developed world, it passes with the minimum of official notice. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on June 5, 2022
March on Biden’s Summit of Exclusion, June 10, 5pm
The United States insists on denying Cuba’s participation in the two most important political events to be held in the region this year: the Summit of the Americas and the People’s Summit for Democracy. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 29, 2022
ALBA Conference in Havana. photo: Yaimi Ravelo
Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua found an alternative and inclusive platform where they could freely express their ideas and advocate for a true Latin American union, contrary to the Summit of the Americas being convened by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden in Los Angeles. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 24, 2022 from Havana
Puentes de Amor
Of all, Cuba’s health sector is the area hardest hit by the blockade that the United States insists on maintaining against the island. For two years, the country has not been able to start the liver transplant program for children, due to the lack of a key component that Washington refused to sell to the country. But miracles do happen, and every day friends around the world prove to us that we are not alone. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 19, 2022, from Havana
Jose Marti, photo: Bill Hackwell
One hundred and twenty-seven years ago, Cuba lost its most illustrious son, José Martí. He lived, thought, wrote, and was inspired by his country. Martí was devoted to the struggle for Cuba’s independence from the Spanish regime and lost his life a few days after the beginning of the second -and definitive- stage of the war for independence (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Gustavo A Maranges on May 17, 2022 from Havana
like the virus, the US blockade isolates. photo: Bill Hackwell
On May 16, the United States’ government announced some cosmetic changes in its foreign policy towards Cuba. The decision came after five years of the harshest enforcement of the blockade ever seen, first during the Donald Trump-Era, and then maintained to the maximum by the Joe Biden administration. (more…)