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
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
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
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
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
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
The year has barely begun and already the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is once again drawing criticism for his irresponsible statements on vaccination against COVID-19, when in the South American nation the new variant Ómicron is already present, which, although apparently less lethal, is a threat to all, especially those not immunized.... More
Neither the vaccination process, through which 87 percent of Cubans received three doses of Abdala or Soberana, nor the affirmation that Omicron is more contagious, but less lethal, should arouse the belief that in this Caribbean nation the pandemic has passed.... More
Since my days as a young diplomat in the distant 1960, in the heights of Quito, I keep in one of my diaries a thought of Martin Fierro that now the CELAC ministerial summit in Buenos Aires brought to my memory.... More
Cuba has memory and keeps its history alive. The Homeland is nourished by the thoughts and actions of men and women who fought to bequeath us the country we have today, sovereign and independent and working to forge a better future for its children.... More
Americans remain as divided on many issues as they were last January, the country remains threatened by violence, and justice is far from unraveling the scope and masterminds of the assault on the Capitol in Washington.... More
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