The current scenario is highly complex world-wide. COVID-19 has led to a considerable decline in international trade, putting millions of people at risk with a possible decrease of accessible food.... More
As a result of the Covid-19 plague, a global ideological paradigm shift is possible, as occurred following the Great Depression of the 1930, which provoked a turn to social democracy; as well as following the social conflicts of the late 1960s and the stagflation of the 1970s, which led to neoliberalism; and following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which caused a turn to unilateral aggressive imperialism.... More
There is a famous painting entitled "The Triumph of Death" from 1563 by the Flemish master Pieter Brueghel, nicknamed The Elder, where he portrayed the end of humanity at the hands of an army of skeletons that kill regardless of age, social class or belief. ... More
As the United States and the nations of Europe experience the sad tragedy of an uncontrolled pandemic, they are beginning to take notice, not with malice but with wonder, of the alternative road taken by the small Caribbean island nation that declared itself socialist fifty-nine years ago.... More
The announcement that three underaged-children -- confined in a detention center for migrant kids in New York -- tested positive for COVID-19, brought to light the vulnerability of infants who, alone or accompanied by their parents, had to leave their country in search of a better future.... More
On January 15, 1960, Fidel Castro declared that “The future of our country has to be necessarily a future of men and women of science; it has to be a future of men and women of thought.” ... More
In an article in The New York Times on March 27, Katherine Stewart writes that the hostility of the religious Right to science and its denial of scientific knowledge have obstructed the capacity of the United States to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.... More
As the United States has emerged as the epicenter of the global coronavirus crisis, it increasingly has demonstrated that it is unprepared to respond to the emergency. By Charles McKelvey... More
Isolated by the Covid-19 pandemic, but united in one great collective memory, hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans remembered two disastrous events that occurred in our region some decades ago, leaving indelible marks in the countries.... More
They arrived in the white coats of their profession, waving the flags of Italy and Cuba, to the sustained applause of the Italian airport workers and passengers and local residents. ... More
Brazilian head of state, Jair Bolsonaro, has been described as the most inefficient president on the planet when it comes to the proper handling of the crisis caused by the coronavirus, which could create a catastrophe in that South American country due to the lack of a substantial program to contain it.... More
A new and interesting, if not strange, twist is happening in some China-bashing Western media's coverage of the Asian country's COVID-19 fight: they are beginning to speak positively.... More
International organizations have pointed out that Cuba is a model for many nations, inasmuch as it not only offers its international collaboration, but also has trained more than 29,000 physicians from a hundred territories.... More
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