By Alejandra Garcia on November 11, 2021 from Havana
photo: Andrew Wragg
Cuba is getting ready to make a transition toward normalcy after more than one year of struggle against the pandemic. On Monday, thousands of children from first to fifth grade will return to classrooms as the country’s borders will be open to receive international travelers and all Cubans who have been unable to return home due to international health restrictions. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 8, 2021 from Havana
photo; Bill Hackwell
Cuba dawns this morning with a long-awaited joy after a year and a half of pandemic and social estrangement. Finally hundreds of thousands of children, adolescents, and young people return to the classrooms to resume face-to-face teaching. For many, this November 8 seemed like forever in coming. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 2, 2021
This coming Sunday, November 7, the Nicaraguan people will go to the polls to decide their nation’s political destiny amid hostilities against the government of President Daniel Ortega, who will seek his third reelection on that date. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 28, 2021 from Havana
Cuba it should be remembered was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with China back in 1960. Sixty-one years after that union, both nations continue to collaborate with each other in the fight against hegemonism and unilateralism, the use of force, and violation of international laws. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 24, 2021
reburial of the victims of the El Mozote Massacre. Photo: Pedro Linger-Gasiglia
In February 1982, a farmer held the US -backed Salvadoran Army responsible for the worst massacre recorded in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 20, 2021 from Havana
Cuban youth performing Peter and the Wolf. photo: Bill Hackwell
Every October 20, for almost four decades, Cuba has been marking its National Culture Day as a tribute to the date on which La Bayamesa, our National Anthem, was sung for the first time in Bayamo city, Granma Province. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 17, 2021
repression in Bolivia during the Anez dictatorship
October 20 Bolivia will mark two years since what became the preamble to a violent and bloody coup d’état against former president Evo Morales (2006-2019). (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 14, 2021 from Havana
Cubans caravan past the US Embassy in support of their revolution. photo: Alejandro Azcuy
On Tuesday, Cuba blocked the petition of a so-called “peaceful protest”, which has the US government and the Miami extremists pushing it behind the scenes. (more…)