By Alejandra Garcia on June 30, 2022 from Havana
Cuban President Diaz Canel visits power plant in Mayabeque province
Since early 2021, Cuba has been suffering more frequent blackouts amid government efforts to repair the country’s thermoelectric power plants. Power cuts typically last three, four, and up to eight hours and the worst may not be over as we are entering the hottest time of the year when energy demands are at their highest. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 26, 2022 from Havana
1994, women have led the fight for safe and legal abortions in the US and they won’t stop now. photo: Bill Hackwell
Scandal, pain, and anger. Women’s rights advocates in the United States cannot believe what has just happened. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the historic decision that legalized abortion in the United States. According to the ruling, there is no longer a constitutional right to abortion, guaranteed by the case known as Roe v. Wade. The news had been leaked over a month ago but now the cold cruel reality has hit home. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Gustavo A Maranges on June 21, 2022
We Won!
This Sunday, Colombia made history. For the first time, a leftist candidate will become president of this Latin America nation that yearns for a definitive regime change. Gustavo Petro, the former rebel fighter who has promised a profound social and economic reform in that country, is the Colombian people’s best option at this point in time to get them out of the poverty and violence that has shaken them for decades. (more…)
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…)