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…)
By Alejandra Garcia on April 5, 2022, from Havana
May 1 in the Plaza of the Revolution returns. photo: Bill Hackwell
This week, Cubans and travelers from around the world received a long-awaited announcement. Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, Cuba has relaxed its entry requirements for passengers traveling by air or sea. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 31, 2022
Alberto Fujimori
Over the past two weeks, Peru has been reliving a fear from the past with the distinct possibility of seeing Dictator Alberto Fujimori free again. Thirteen days ago, the country’s Constitutional Court reactivated a 2017 humanitarian pardon granted to him because he was now old and ill. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 27, 2022
Miami caravan against the blockade
The world is living in uncertain times. The Western powers, led by the United States, insist on escalating tensions in Eastern Europe over an regional conflict that should have nothing to do with them. Unbridled hatred is spreading through social networks as never before, towards Russia, Russians, and anyone who is not on Washington’s side in defending its “world order”. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 22, 2022 from Havana
photo: Getty Images
The events of July 11, 2021, in Cuba were not fortuitous. On that day, a group of Cubans took to the streets of Havana, looking for economic relief amid overwhelming shortages and pandemic asphyxiation. By that time we had been standing in endless lines for over a year to get food or medicines, while carrying a terrible fear of contagion. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 17, 2022, from Havana
photo: minrex
On March 14, 1892, the front pages of Patria Journal, founded by José Martí in New York amid his efforts to restart Cuba’s independence struggles, were published. The newspaper emerged as a spokesman for “virtuous and founding patriotism”, a weapon in the confrontation with fundamentalists, annexationists, autonomists, and defeatists. (more…)