A different kind of medical experience

The Herald Sun newspaper, from the U.S. state of North Carolina, offered readers an unusual opportunity to learn about a health cooperation experience with Cuba, ignored in the United States.... More

Blaming someone else

The conclusion of a mission of UN experts on the spill of almost 12,000 barrels of oil by Repsol in Peru is not encouraging. The damage to the west coast of the South American country, whose authorities have denounced that the Spanish company is not complying with its responsibility, will last from six to 10 years.... More

Adapt or die?

Meetings began this week to analyze and elaborate the second part of the report by a group of UN experts on climate change, which contains the overwhelming warning that it is no longer just a matter of avoiding global warming, but of adapting to survive its consequences.... More

Bolsonaro wants to flood Brazil with pesticides

"Sickens, deforests and kills." This is how environmental organizations, Brazilian civil society and the political opposition describe the strategy of the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to release a large amount of pesticides, in collusion with the agricultural sector, with a powerful presence in Congress.... More

Science and procedures in search of more food

On the road to reducing the deficit in the contributions of agriculture to the household table and obtaining food sovereignty, Cubans are paying attention to a national policy to channel such objectives, an endeavor in which they have the privilege of having as an advisor the Brazilian intellectual Frei Betto.... More

Playing with fire

The presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the United States, Joseph Biden, as well as other leaders and officials talked about the tense situation around Ukraine, aggravated by false information about an imminent invasion by Moscow into the neighboring country.... More

Vaccinations in Cuba allows for response to Omicron

Cuba's health system notes the attenuation of the recent wave caused by Omicron, a variant of COVID-19 that, as in the rest of the world, put this country under stress, although fortunately the progress of immunization brought its benefits.... More

Violence continues to claim lives in Colombia

Colombia never ceases to be in the news. A little more than a month and a half into this year, the high numbers of murders and massacres increase the concern that such actions will not have an immediate end and the worst days are yet to come.... More

Contribution of Cuban universities to the advancement of society

Some people probably don't realize that the link with the different branches of the country's socioeconomic life begins in the classrooms of Cuban universities. With ideas, innovative visions, knowledge and projects, professors and students provide solutions to various problems, and once they graduate, they continue to contribute to the advancement and welfare of society from their jobs.... More

Dictated justice

This week in Rome, the Condor Process, by means of which the military and officials of Latin American countries implicated in the kidnapping and murder of citizens of Italian origin during the dictatorships of the second half of the 20th century were tried and sentenced, came to a definitive conclusion.... More

Land and sovereignty

Argentina has a historical dispute with the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands and other South Atlantic island territories, which were occupied since 1833 in acts of piracy and which provoked an armed conflict 40 years ago.... More

Protecting the rights of people in situations of vulnerability

Popular consultation on the preliminary draft of the new Family Code began this month in Cuba, which, experts agree, shows a significant advance in the protection of people who, because of their condition, may be in a situation of vulnerability, ranging from children and the elderly to those with disabilities.... More

Angry Puerto Rican public workers

The salary increase for firefighters and teachers, considered insufficient by the latter, introduced in Puerto Rico a tense waiting period, after protests by public workers.... More

Attacks against butterflies

Under different names and monikers, extreme right-wing groups in the United States are opening spaces and disrupting political and social life.... More

Hunger in the Horn of Africa

The joint action of three serious phenomena, intense drought, endless armed conflicts and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, is causing a severe famine in the Horn of Africa where a great number of human beings lack the minimum indispensable nutrients.... More

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