By Alejandra Garcia on May 15, 2022 from Havana
The United States has decided to exclude Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the IX Summit of the Americas, scheduled to be held June 8-10 in Los Angeles, but the continent has not remained silent. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 10, 2022
AMLO meets with Raul Castro
This weekend, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made a historic visit to Cuba, which allowed both countries to strengthen their long-standing friendship. Although it was brief, it helped in showing Cubans and the world that this Caribbean island, blockaded and besieged by the United States, is not alone. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 8, 2022 from Havana
Rescue workers continue to comb through the rubble for signs of life.
Photo: Bill Hackwell
It is Mother’s Day in Cuba, but in Havana there is no music or merriment, as usually happens on this date. The city has been in mourning since Friday, when a massive explosion shook the Saratoga Hotel, in Old Havana, collapsing part of its facade and spreading terror among neighbors in the surrounding communities. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 1, 2022 from Havana
Havana’s Revolution Square looked beautiful this Sunday, as it had not been for three years. With the first morning light, thousands of Havanans, Cubans from all over our geography, and friends from other latitudes paraded as one in front of the giant bust of José Martí. All carried Cuban flags of all sizes, signs that read “Cuba Lives and Works,” “Yes, we can,” or showed images of Fidel, Raúl, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 24, 2022 from Havana
During these days, Cuba is reliving one of the island’s most important cultural moments: the yearly Havana International Book Fair. Two years and a pandemic later, the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress reopened its doors to the public from all over the country and from other latitudes seeking to celebrate Cuba’s ” Great Book Festivity”, which this year is dedicated to the literature of a fellow country, Mexico. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 21, 2022
Joanna Pereira being interviewed by Alejandra Garcia
At the end of April, Cuba will conclude the process of popular discussion of the Family Code, a legal initiative that seeks to be an agreed upon portrait of Cuban society. It came out of necessity, because much has changed in the island’s social panorama since the 1970s, when the current Code came into existence. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 17, 2022 from Havana
Fidel leading the resistance at Playa Giron
In mid-April 1961, fifteen hundred mercenaries trained and financed by Washington set sail from a port in Miami and headed to Cuba with a single purpose: to destroy the newborn Revolution. In the early morning of April 17 of that year, five merchant ships, two war units, three barges, and four cargo boats touched Cuban soil at the Bay of Pigs in Matanzas. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 10, 2022 from Havana
Cuban migrants, photo: Lisette Poole
I can’t imagine the anguish of those who decide to migrate illegally. The pain of leaving your country, friends, and family must be unbearable. (more…)