Holocaust without end

This January 27 commemorated the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, a date that coincides with the liberation in 1945 of the infamous Auschwitz prison camp by the Soviet Union's Red Army, a site where every imaginable horror was committed.... More

Amal cannot be seen in Washington

Among the hundreds of Palestinian children and adolescents imprisoned in Israel is Amal Nakhleh, a victim of the well-worn modality of administrative detention, without the international corporate press denouncing his case or that of the other prisoners.... More

COVID cases in Brazil peak, while Bolsonaro continues in denial

Brazil continues to be the focus of attention of the international community due to the serious impact of the pandemic, accentuated by the denial of the ultra-right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro.... More

CIA report baffles promoters of the manipulated Havana Syndrome

A recent report by the U.S. CIA sheds light on the studies disclosed by Cuban scientists, about the lack of foundation of the theories about alleged sonic attacks in Havana on U.S. diplomats in 2016 and 2017.... More

Stumbling along

The reactivation of the global economy will have to wait even longer due to the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly due to the action of the Delta and Omicron variants of the virus, which increased the number of sick people and forced to resume restriction measures in many countries.... More

Cuba works for its children

The Cuban government has constantly called for the care of the most vulnerable citizens, an exhortation reiterated by President Miguel Diaz Canel, in view of the incidence of COVID 19.  And children are one of the population sectors upon which the attention of the authorities, health personnel and our scientific community have focused. ... More

Deadly borders

U.S. immigration authorities detained more than two million people on the border with Mexico in 2021 when they tried to enter the northern country's territory without the required documentation, which represents the highest number since these records have been kept.... More

Russian planes arrive to Cuba with assistance

Six months after the arrival in Havana of one of the initial shipments of humanitarian aid from Russia to Cuba because of COVID-19 , a new flight arrived, this time with about 20 tons of medical supplies and drugs.... More

Violence sweeps over Ecuador

In recent months, Ecuador has been immersed in a wave of violence. Prison massacres, with a toll of more than 300 dead, and an increase in robberies and homicides have characterized the panorama of the South American nation.... More

Melody, sensitivity and love for one's roots

The visit to Havana of Cuban composer, arranger and pianist Ignacio "Nachito" Herrera, a Cuban-American resident in the United States, left a deep mark of sensitivity, beyond the musical presentations.... More

Of lime and sand

The director general of the World Health Organization, WHO, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that this year the acute phase of the covid-19 pandemic could be lifted, but at the same time warned that new variants of the virus are possible, even more transmissible and dangerous.... More

Repsol's responsibility in oil spill denounced

Every day there are growing calls for the Spanish multinational Repsol to assume its responsibility for the spill of six thousand barrels of oil on the coast of the district of Ventanilla, province of El Callao, in Peru, which today is experiencing its worst ecological disaster in recent times.... More

U.S. lost in the backyards

In the lackluster attempts to reflect the distance of the Donald Trump era, the U.S. Democratic administration is stuck in contradictions, as in the appreciation of its relationship with Latin America, a blunder to which the Cuban Foreign Ministry has drawn attention.... More

The Enemy Within

The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, asked the U.S. federal government for help to contain the traffic of firearms in that city, after several incidents occurred in the past few days that left a number of dead and wounded.... More

Will Puerto Rico go into a second bankruptcy?

In 2017, Puerto Rico declared bankruptcy, faced with the impossibility of paying its public debt of more than 70 billion dollars.  Given this situation, the United States had already approved a year earlier the misnamed Promesa Act, one more mechanism of the colonial rule it exercises over the Latin American nation, which it tries to present to the world under the deceptive condition of a Commonwealth.... More

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