By Alejandra Garcia on October 10, 2021, from Havana
Families of the victims of the terrorist bombing of Cubana airliner. photo: Bill Hackwell
Photojournalist Jorge Oller immortalized with his camera one of the saddest days in the history of Cuba. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 7, 2021 from Havana
In 1971, Uruguayan political scientist and author Eduardo Galeano read the pulse of Latin American reality well with his lapidary phrase: “The world is divided above all between the unworthy and the indignant, and everyone knows which side they want to or can be on”. This he wrote in his book, The Open Veins of Latin America, which I leaf through today, 50 years later (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 3, 2021 from Havana
The Malecon, photo: Bill Hackwell
This weekend, for the first time in months, Cuba woke up to the news that the number of people infected with COVID-19 fell below 4,900. The incidence is still very high, but the number is encouraging because it is steadily trending down. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 28, 2021, from Havana
protest in San Francisco against the racist deportations of Haitians, photo: Bill Hackwell
I have fresh in my mind those images of those guards on horseback chasing Haitians with whips at the southern border of the United States just like in the days of slavery. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 23, 2021, from Havana
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel
US President Joe Biden did it again. This Tuesday, he took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to label Cuba and other progressive nations as authoritarian and inconsequential to the needs of their people in an attempt to justify the onslaught of sanctions that Washington maintains against the island. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 19, 2021 from Havana
photo: Mexico gov.
Saturday the world’s eyes were upon Mexico, which hosted the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). The historic summit saw the participation of 31 countries with seventeen leaders of the member countries, including Cuba and Venezuela, who traveled to the capital of the North American nation to outline joint strategies to help overcome the Covid-19 pandemic and underdevelopment. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 14, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Last week, the government of the Caribbean island announced the country will be ready to reopen its borders on November 15 when it is expected that over 90 percent of the Cuban population will be vaccinated against the COVID-19. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 11, 2021
20 years of the ongoing “war on terror” far exceeded the number of 9/11 victims, photo: Bill Hackwell
For Mexican journalist David Brooks, the most shocking moment of September 11, 2001, was not the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the U.S. Pentagon, but the hours that followed the attack. (more…)