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
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
“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
One year after the centenary of the ILO was celebrated, Cuba as a founding country, presented its experiences in labor protection during this stage of confronting the new coronavirus pandemic. Labor measures adopted in Cuba before COVID-19 In Cuba, various measures were adopted to prevent and confront COVID-19, from the Read more
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recognized the results of Cuba’s work to achieve quality, inclusive education in the 2020 Global Monitoring Report on Education for All -known as the GEM report. This global monitoring mechanism is used to evaluate progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDA) Read more
June is over and the Cuban health authorities reported that seven people were detected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 24 hours, in addition to an increase in hospitalized patients, whose figure amounts to 146, according to today’s report. The seven cases were asymptomatic, all are Cuban, six had contact Read more
The Cuban Ministry of Justice (MINJUS) this week issued a birth certificate that recognizes two mothers of a child, which is an unprecedented event in Cuban law. After almost a year of beginning the process to register their son in the Cuban Civil Registry, this Thursday Dachelys Valdés and Hope Bastian obtained Read more
Cubans can confess ignorance in epidemiology or meteorology, but not about Cuba-United States relations. Perhaps nothing brings them so together on the same side―including those who don’t agree with the system―as that historical tension between a North that has sought to prevail at all costs, and a country determined not Read more
Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy whose custody case sparked diplomatic tensions and attracted intense media coverage, will soon be a father himself, he announced on Facebook on Sunday. Gonzalez, 26, made the announcement on Father’s Day and said his own father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who brought him back from the Read more
The balance of Covid-19 has been four new infections in the last twenty-four hours in Cuba, a day in which the health authorities registered not only the lowest number of infections since March; instead, according to Dr. Francisco Durán, it is possibly the lowest income: only 296 patients were in hospitals. Read more
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