Those who did everything possible to discredit and prevent Cuban medical cooperation during Donald Trump's administration, must have been surprised to hear the information provided by Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, Director of Cuba's Central Unit for Medical Cooperation when he said that 25 brigades with some 2 500 Cuban collaborators are still fighting Covid-19 around the world. Dr. Jorge assured that in the last six decades, and in spite of the U.S. blockade, Cuban health professionals have assisted nearly one third of the global population. ... More
Radio Havana Cuba celebrates the 60th anniversary of its creation as an experimental shortwave radio station, on the air in 1961. Those were difficult times, and it was intended to fill the gaps in the information battle that the young Cuban Revolution was waging against a virulent campaign of slander unleashed against our country by the press responding to the U.S. imperialism. Two years earlier, Prensa Latina, another achievement of the Revolution, had been founded to this end.... More
Due to an excessive drive for profit and comfort, much of the world is failing to meet most of its commitments to protect the environment, prevent global warming and curb extreme natural phenomena, the UN recently warned.... More
Seldom has humanity been affected in such a global way by a pandemic as this one of COVID-19, which has spread to the entire planet and, at the same time, there has been a fragmented, scattered and clearly insufficient response given the significance of the challenge.... More
Over the last few weeks, Haiti has made the headlines due to the protests organized by political parties and other social sectors to demand the removal from power of President Jovenel Moïse -- who has the support of the United States and the Organization of American States, OAS.... More
World Health Organization researchers are conducting an investigation in the city of Wuhan, China, to track down the origins of the coronavirus. Thus far, they have determined that the virus came from an animal source, therefore it was not designed in or escaped from any laboratory at all.... More
Even though uncertainty, pain and death are spreading throughout the world due to the uncontrollable pandemic of COVID-19 -- with millions of infections -- someone always finds the opportunity to make juicy business out of this tragedy and others will simply consider it normal behavior of our species to maintain a selfish attitude before adversities.... More
The global economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has reached such proportions that -- for the first time since World War II -- the global public debt at the end of 2020 was the equivalent to the 98% of the Gross Domestic Product, GDP. That means that for every dollar earned in the world, 98 cents are owed and only two cents are left to meet all daily needs. Seems absurd... but true.... More
News recently broke of the death of Chilean judge Juan Guzmán Tapia, the first lawyer in that country to lead investigations and prosecute dictator Augusto Pinochet, although some judicial mechanisms failed to enforce the regulations in this case.... More
The discovery of new strains of SARS-CoV-2 poses a real concern to the entire world, since they hinder the fight against the pandemic that has already caused more than 96 million infections and two million deaths, according to the latest reports.... More
According to official records as of yesterday, nearly 40 million people had been inoculated against COVID-19, but most of these recipients live in developed countries with high levels of income.... More
Some may still remember when the out-going President of the United States, Donald Trump, reluctantly agreed to wear a mask to protect himself from COVID-19 and said he felt like "The Lone Ranger," a fictional TV character from the old American West.... More
There are only a few days left before U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office as White House chief executive, and his team must be working hard to address the major issues to be inherited from his predecessor, Donald Trump.... More
2020 was a very difficult year, with serious losses for almost everyone when it comes to health, social, political and economic terms, except, of course for the industrial and commercial/for-profit pharmaceutical consortiums that made huge profits from the COVID-19 pandemic.... More
Since 2011, Cuba has carried out gradual transformations in the state system, so as to enhance and improve the work performed by these entities, which are key players in the economic development of the country.... More
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