The brutal governmental response to protests and mobilizations in Colombia exposed to the world a militarized country, with uniformed soldiers and hired killers.... More


The confrontation with COVID 19 has required the expenditure of considerable resources, however, Cuba has not neglected other branches of health, despite the economic limitations imposed by the U.S. blockade.... More


Running for their lives

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life almost everywhere, but it has not wiped out other scourges preceding the health crisis, including the need for millions of people to leave their homes to save their lives. ... More


Cuba prioritizes the resumption of the school year as soon as health circumstances allow it, because education is a major priority for the State, and in accordance with the calls of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.  Actually they recommended governments and countries to avoid what it described as a "generational catastrophe" -- referring to the educational halt due to the spread of COVID-19.... More


A mega surprise

Last weekend, Chile witnessed a long two-day voting process called "mega elections" because there were actually four elections in one, which ended with the pleasant surprise that the independent candidates and the left won an undisputable victory.... More


Havana, May 15 (RHC)-- The Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU) and the José Martí International Institute of Journalism paid tribute to Ecuadorian journalist Carlos Bastidas, who was assassinated 63 years ago by the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.... More


In the midst of the complex epidemiological situation faced by Havana due to COVID 19, there is encouraging news. The sanitary procedures of the Abdala vaccine candidate have already begun this week in four municipalities of the Cuban capital; this is one of the five vaccines that Cuba is developing, defying the economic limitations imposed by the pandemic and the genocidal U.S. blockade.... More


The return of barbarism

Human beings are the most contradictory species in our world -- and this is a view shared by the majority of experts -- because they are capable of making the purest and most selfless acts of love for their fellow man but also of committing the cruelest of crimes.... More


In 2019, the living standard of a majority of Brazilians suddenly dropped, a problem that began three years earlier following the parliamentary coup against the constitutional president Dilma Rousseff, from the Workers' Party, a political organization that in 2003 implemented social programs to favor the poor and managed to remove Brazil from the global Hunger Chart in 2014. ... More


U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has defined a 'new' policy of her country towards Latin America that seeks to maintain its hegemonic role in the region... More


The closure of the Guantanamo naval base and the return of that territory located in the eastern part of the country illegally occupied by the United States, is a long-standing demand of Cuba, supported by other peoples, political personalities and international organizations.... More


Ecuador: Who is to blame?

Outgoing Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno has dominated the news and generated headlines due to the devastating health and economic situation of his country.... More


A campaign of fear 

The electoral process is advancing in Peru, as we come up to the second round of the presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, June 6.  Voters will choose between the progressive professor Pedro Castillo and the representative of the ultra-right, Keiko Fujimori.... More


If the Western media would comply with what it claims to be its principles of objectivity, good and worthy causes such as the struggle of the Cuban people against the U.S. blockade would have the global impact they deserve.... More


A hidden army

An investigation conducted by research groups from two Brazilian universities reveals that over the past several decades, several irregular militias have emerged in the city of Rio de Janeiro and several other metropolitan areas, which might be defined as real 'shadow armies.'... More


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