By Alejandra Garcia, on June 29, 2021 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The pandemic is growing unabated in Cuba amid authorities’ efforts to immunize the population. This Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) informed that over 1 million citizens have already received three doses of home-grown vaccines. However, this encouraging news came with another one that has raised all the alarms: in the last 24 hours, Cuba surpassed the 3,000 cases of COVID-19 for the first time in one year. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 24, 2021 from Havana
Cuba bursting with pride, as 184 nations stand with them in the UN. photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba’s new victory over Washington was not news in the US. No head of diplomacy or White House representatives issued any criteria regarding the fact that 184 of the 193 countries that make up the United Nations (UN) voted on Wednesday to end the blockade imposed on the island for almost 60 years. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 22, 2021 in Havana
Cuba’s covid vaccine Abdala proves to be 92.28% effective.
Tomorrow Cuba returns to the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York to demand an end to the blockade that the U.S. has been imposing on the island for almost six decades. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 20, 2021
Life in Nicaragua, seldom seen in corporate media. photo: Madeline McClure
Nicaragua will go to the polls on November 7 and all the polls point to President Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista party triumphing by an overwhelming majority. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 15, 2021, from Havana
graphic: Osval
Cuba is once again in the news for its fight against the pandemic. This morning Cuban President Miguel Diaz- Canel released figures from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reporting that 578,835 Cubans, from across the country, are now fully vaccinated against Covid -19 after having received all three doses of either Abdala or Soberana 2. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 10, 2021
Photo: radiomacondo.fm
Colombia is no longer news. In the past 24 hours, over 50 people were injured by agents of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) during a new night of terror and police brutality. But few outlets of the mainstream media are covering the reality of this Latin American country, whose people have been protesting in the streets against President Ivan Duque for over one month. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 8, 2021, in Havana
Rio de Janeiro, photo: Bill Hackwell
Next week, Brazil will become the host of the Copa America 2021, a soccer event that will draw thousands of fans from Latin America and around the world to the country that is currently reporting the highest number of deaths due to COVID-19 worldwide. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 31, 2021, from Havana
Photo: Alejandro Azcuy
On Monday, Swiss-based construction materials multinational LafargeHolcim settled a lawsuit seeking compensation for the use of its properties, nationalized by the Cuban government in the 1960s. (more…)