Abdala vaccine candidate: 92.28% efficacy in its three doses

June 25, 2021 OnCuba Staff 0

Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB). Photo: Pinterest. The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) announced this Monday in Havana that the Cuban Abdala vaccine candidate has an efficacy of 92.28% with a scheme of three applied doses, according to the clinical studies of the immunogen.   With Read more

Havana street names with poetry

Havana street names with poetry

May 18, 2021 OnCuba Staff 0

It all began with the mess of an unplanned urbanization, letting things turn out as they came along, and “let whoever comes behind fix it.” The irregularity with which the Havana township of San Cristóbal was formed is reflected in the Cabildo (town council), where an alderman screamed out that Read more

NDI’s Cuba projects total $6.6 million

April 15, 2021 Cuba Money Project 0

State-run television on Friday linked Cuban performance artist and dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara to a U.S. government-funded democracy program. TV journalist Humberto López accused Otero of working for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, based in Washington, D.C. López displayed an agreement purportedly showing that NDI had agreed Read more

Caravans of love to end embargo: no walls can resist us

March 31, 2021 OnCuba Staff 0

Tampa! The place where José Martí, surrounded by Cuban émigrés, fertilized the “new pines” and discerned a new dawn for Cuba. Here, where among humble cigar makers and good Cubans, the Apostle conceived that longed-for and still elusive vision of building a nation “with all and for the good of all.” Read more

Havana: new school year to begin on December 7

December 7, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

The 2020-2021 school year, underway in almost all of Cuba since the beginning of November, will begin in Havana on December 7, confirmed the deputy director general of education of the Cuban capital. José Ángel Ordaz said to the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency that Havana province is “ready to assume the beginning of Read more

46th President-elect of the United States

November 9, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

Born in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden (1942) earned a degree in History and Political Science from the University of Delaware (1965) and a law degree from Syracuse University in New York (1968). Shortly after, in 1972, he was elected to the Senate for Delaware: then he was the sixth-youngest senator in Read more