By Alejandra Garcia on December 9, 2021, from Havana
The Yara Theater, photo: Bill Hackwell
December is the month of cinema for Havana residents. Everyone knows that during the first week of the last month of the year, the doors of movie theaters open 24 hours a day to screen first runs of films (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 5, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Every December 3, in Cuba and every country in the region we celebrate Latin American Medicine Day, a tribute that has had a special connotation this year. In December, the world is marking the second anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak and its spread around the world (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 2, 2021
photo: Juvenal Balán
On December 2, 1956, the Granma yacht arrived in Cuba at Las Coloradas beach, in the eastern part of the island, after a seven-day voyage that began in Mexican waters. On more than one occasion during the trip, the 82 Cuban expedition members, led by Fidel Castro, believed that the small ship would not reach its final destination. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 30, 2021
photo: Lucia Vijil S
Honduras went to the polls last Sunday amid a process of historic importance. People flocked to the polling stations, despite political violence and fears induced by the narco regime of outgoing President Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH). (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 25, 2021
photo: Colombia Informa
Cuba witnessed, like no other nation, the peace process that Colombia experienced just five years ago. Havana hosted the first consensus between the government of then-President Juan Manuel Santos and the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) in August 2016. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 24, 2021
photo: DPA
Venezuela was once again awash in red Sunday with a resounding victory for Nicolás Maduro who was ratified as president of the Bolivarian Republic by its people during the election day in which Chavismo obtained 20 out of the 23 state governorships where voting took place plus the mayor’s office of the capital district. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 17, 2021 from Havana
Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
On November 16, Havana marked its 502nd anniversary amid good news: the reopening of borders throughout Cuba, the return of children to the classroom, the rebirth of economic life after almost two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Marcos Maranges on November 16, 2021 from Havana
Cubans rally in support of their revolution on 15N. photo: Jose Manuel Correa
Cuba dawned yesterday full of images that we had missed seeing for a very long time. Thousands of children between five and nine years old returned to the classrooms in a feast of colors. Reporters on the island took the opportunity to immortalize this long-awaited day since COVID-19 forced the closure of the country’s schools to avoid contagions. (more…)