Winds of change

I said in a previous commentary that the winds of progressive change are blowing in Latin America and the Caribbean, after the successive victories of Luis Arce in Bolivia, Pedro Castillo in Peru, Xiomara Castro in Honduras and Gabriel Boric in Chile, in addition to the reelection of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.... More


Cuban science makes history

Every day the Cuban scientific community makes history. Its total commitment to the welfare of citizens and the construction of a more prosperous and just society honors the thought of Cuba's National Hero, José Martí, who expressed that through true science one goes to human equity.... More


Victims and aggressors

The mainstream media and its resonance apparatuses have planted in the popular imagination of Western Europe, and also in a good part of the American continent, the false idea that Russia is preparing an imminent military invasion against its neighboring Ukraine.... More


Preserving Caribbean biodiversity

Cuban scientists will be present in an initiative promoted by France to preserve the environment in the Caribbean, a region with a rich biodiversity, but highly vulnerable to climate change, which threatens life on the planet.... More


Piñera's in a hurry

Before his departure from power in March, the Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, deepens his unpopularity, as the government informed about a millionaire award to two private companies for the extraction of lithium, enough to generate criticism from the opposition.... More


The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, forcefully rejected the intention of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, to impose on his country an adjustment program in exchange for rescheduling the payments of a credit granted during the administration of Mauricio Macri.... More


Venezuela has been the target of sanctions and attacks harmful to the economy, security and welfare, as is the case with sabotage to the energy industry.... More


Cuban deputies begin the year with an intense agenda, which includes in the first half of the year the review of programs of great impact on the economic and social development of the nation.... More


No rights in Guantanamo prison

If the U.S. administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden had devoted the time to the humanitarian crisis at Guantánamo Bay prison that they spent harassing Cuba, the inmates in that enclave might be freed after many years of torture and imprisonment.... More


The year 2021 ended with new attacks and threats against indigenous peoples in Paraguay. Stripped of their lands, their livelihoods and sacred places they have been victims for years of violence by landowners and multinationals, protected by the state.... More


Hole of infamy

Tuesday, January 11th, was the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first victims to the prison built by the United States in the illegal base of Guantanamo, a site that in two decades became the center of all imaginable legal and human infamies.... More


Plutocrats and other evils

Millions of people around the world would like to erase 2021 from their memory -- a year in which lives were lost, families and loved ones continued to be separated and the economy remained in the doldrums, with the exception of a small group of wealthy people.... More


Where one is needed

Nursing is a service profession, in charge of providing care to people of all ages, hence the high valuation in Cuba to that specialty, and the recognition beyond borders, as confirmed in a recent agreement with Bahamas.... More


When Xiomara Castro assumes the presidency of Honduras on January 27th, she will have a great challenge: to face the prevailing violence in that nation, which with nearly ten million inhabitants is considered the most violent in Central America.... More


Happy New Year?

Thousands of cancelled flights around the world, schools, offices and other workplaces closed and a lot of uncertainty regarding the immediate future due to the COVID-19 pandemic, show that 2022 did not start better than last year ended.... More


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