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

Canadian tourists in Cuba test negative for COVID-19

September 14, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

All Canadian tourists who arrived last Friday at Cayo Coco international airport, in central Cuba, tested negative for COVID-19, according to the island’s authorities. The 110 visitors from Canada, who arrived on the second flight to the Cuban destination Jardines del Rey from the northern country in September, underwent a real-time Read more

Cuba could produce Russian COVID-19 vaccine

August 11, 2020 Sputnik of Oncubanews 0

Production of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine could begin in Cuba in November, said Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. “Cuba has excellent capabilities to manufacture vaccines. We are discussing the launch of the production with several Cuban enterprises, we believe that Cuba can become one of the Read more

Codepink tell Congress to unblock Cuba!

July 27, 2020 CODEPINK 0

This is exciting and we must act fast: We have a rare chance to hold — and win — two historic votes in the Congressional House of Representatives rolling back parts of U.S. sanctions on Cuba on food, medicines, and remittances. These are amendments to a spending bill that will Read more

Cuba-United States for beginners (III)

Where did one of the architects of President Kennedy’s main program for Latin America, godfather of baptism from the Alliance for Progress, come from in 1961? In what hands did Ronald Reagan (1981-88) and George W. Bush (2001-2008) place their most important offices for the western hemisphere: those that coordinated the Read more

Cuba-US Relations for Beginners (II)

“Cuban blacks look directly into the eyes of whites,” noted an impressed North American visitor in 1907: “For the American in his country, considering black as an equal in social, political, or even labor terms is an affront, an offense, at least; for the Cuban, no. This is because [the black in Read more

Interview with Ambassador José Ramón Cabañas: “There are more than enough reasons for there to have been a statement by the U.S. State Department”

Interview with Ambassador José Ramón Cabañas: “There are more than enough reasons for there to have been a statement by the U.S. State Department”

In the early morning hours of April 30, the usual quiet of NW 16th Street in Washington DC, home to several embassies and just two miles from the White House, was interrupted by a shooting. The attack was directed at the headquarters of the Cuban embassy in the United States. Read more