Happy Birthday, Paulo Freire!

A is for Angicos is the latest documentary directed by Catherine Murphy... More


In times of pandemic, psychology has also played an essential role in Cuba in the support and accompaniment of health orientations to face COVID 19, but fundamentally, in the attention to those convalescing from the disease who face several sequels that limit their reincorporation to daily life.... More


Plagues

No war comes or goes by itself.  Each conflict is usually accompanied by a series of plagues whose effects take time to control, as is happening in Afghanistan where poverty could reach catastrophic proportions next year.... More


Lula says Brazil has a cure

Brazil's ultra-right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, showed ineffectiveness in his administration and a knack for accentuating confrontation, so many think that the evil is difficult to erase, although former head of state Lula believes otherwise.... More


This September 2 marks the 61st anniversary of the First Declaration of Havana, in which the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, proclaimed to the world the principles for which his people were willing to fulfill the slogan of "Homeland or Death" -- and his conviction to win.... More


From April to December 2020, in only eight months, the telecommunications sector in Cuba suffered losses of more than 65 million dollars due to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States six decades ago.... More


On the night of August 14, 1791 -- 230 years ago -- a secret ceremony was held in a place in Haiti called Bwa Kayiman, a Creole expression meaning Forest of the Caymans.  It was the spark that generated the triumphant slave revolution in 1804.... More


The Japanese city of Hiroshima has marked the 76th anniversary of the first atomic bombing by the US that killed over 140,000 people, as its mayor called world leaders to join efforts for total elimination of nuclear weapons.... More


The solidarity that unites Cubans

Difficult times test us, and we Cubans have plenty of examples of episodes that have reaffirmed the solidarity that characterizes us.  It could not, therefore, be any different in the face of the complex situation generated by COVID-19 and the tightening of the Washington's criminal  blockade.... More


Summer vacation at spy camp

Although battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the school year usually ends in many countries around the world at the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere summer -- between July and August -- when courses, workshops and camps open in the United States to teach various things, including espionage.... More


When solidarity is for real

The United States insists on saying that it is concerned about the Cuban people... a concern that ironically translates into the ongoing genocidal blockade that hinders the fight against COVID-19. ... More


Cubans celebrate "National Rebellion Day" in tribute to the Centennial Generation that attacked two barracks belonging to Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, under very adverse circumstances, which encourages us to reflect on those actions and renew our resolve to face the current difficulties.... More


Still with sobriety, but with firmness, the Cuban people celebrate one more anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo, a suitable date to take a brief look at our region 68 years after that historic day.... More


Reflections on Cuba's reality

The social outburst of the past July 11 of this year was, without doubt, a shock to all of us and not precisely for the lack of evidence and signs. Like an Olympic Marathon, social media networks spread slogans, orientations, fake news, photoshopped images, etcetera, in every corner of the world.... More


A black diamond in Havana

For the North American black movement “Black Lives Matter” the “Jewel in their crown” is a black woman, the radical revolutionary Assata Shakur, also known by the name of Joanne Chesimard, who has lived in Havana since the mid-1970s. century as a political asylee, as she was accused of killing a New Jersey state police officer when she escaped from a patrol car that was driving her under arrest on charges of being one of the leaders of the radical movement «Black Panthers.»... More


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