Donald Trump has criticized the World Health Organization for not seeing the Clovid-19 pandemic.... More


The next crisis

In just three or four months, Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease that has brought the whole world to the brink, dismantled all the forecasts on the possible economic performance of developed and poor countries, and placed us on the threshold of another crisis.... More


Bitter lessons to be learned

Spaniards, like everyone else in the world, will have a lot to think about when the COVID-19 pandemic ends. ... More


There has been a certain rumor circulating for days -- which some say is "fake news" -- about the alleged deposition of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro by the army, due to their discontent over his terrible management of the health crisis created by COVID-19.... More


The World Health Organization

The Cuban Plan of Prevention and Control of Covid-19, approved on March 5 and modified as the situation has evolved, is fully consistent with the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO).... More


The neuralgic center that helps to prepare brigades of Cuban health personnel that travel to other nations to fight Covid-19 operates a perfect clockwork system.... More


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


The Covid-19 pandemic could provoke a global paradigm shift

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


"The Triumph of Death" by Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel.

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


Cuba has sent medical brigades to eleven countries, with further requests under consideration

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 most helpless ones

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


The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology was established in 1986

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


The denial of science has long and deep roots in U.S. culture

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


Memoirs in times of pandemic

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


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