Al Mayadeen In an exclusive interview for Al Mayadeen, the Cuban President talks about Cuba’s stance on the war in Ukraine, and his country’s relationship with Russia, China, and other countries. Part I: Cuban Revolution, US Embargo: Al Mayadeen Interviews the Cuban President During the second part of Al Mayadeen Media Network Chairman Ghassan Ben Jeddou’s interview…
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Cuban Revolution, US Embargo: Al Mayadeen Interviews the Cuban President
Al Mayadeen In an exclusive interview for Al Mayadeen, the Cuban President touches on the Cuban Revolution, its challenges, and achievements, as well as US manipulations. Part II: Havana and the World: Al Mayadeen Interviews the Cuban President Part I Al Mayadeen Media Network Chairman Ghassan Ben Jeddou conducted an exclusive interview with Cuban President Miguel…
The US Blockade and its Effects on Cuban Medicine
Carlos L. Garrido Rural health care in Cuba (Photo by Carol Foil, 2009). The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.1 It is innovative, preventative, people-oriented, comprehensive, community-centered, internationalist, and, of course, de-commodified—treating healthcare as a human right, not a profitable commodity. However, in spite of its extraordinary successes,…
The Grenada Revolution: The Fruit, the Priest and the Jewel
Lautaro Rivara Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (center) with a woman of Grenada’s Carriacou island. On March 13, 1979, on the island of Grenada, one of the most hopeful and unknown revolutions of our region began. This is the story of the small country that dared to make a great revolution. Grenada, or How to…
Undefeated Revolutions
On Latin America Review, Kawsachun News spoke to Francisco Dominguez, a researcher at the Middlesex University and the secretary of the Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign, who has long been a pillar of the movements in solidarity of Latin America, in the UK. Francisco, who is Chilean, spoke to Ollie about how Venezuela has managed to survive…
Fidel Castro’s Legacy Lives on as Cuba Keeps Sending ‘Doctors, not Bombs’ All Across the World
Daniel Kovalik Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro speaks on International Workers Day in Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba. © AP Photo/Javier Galeano In the immediate aftermath of the recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, Cuba dispatched medical teams to the affected areas to provide care to victims. Their departure was marked by a farewell ceremony, which featured…
Committee for the Defense of the Revolution: Interview with Gerardo Hernadez
Denis Rogatyuk and Gerardo Hernadez Denis Rogatyuk: Today we have the great honor of being with Gerardo Hernández, leader of the Cuban “five heroes” and now the national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs). He is a man who has been known as someone who risked his life in pursuit of…
Dr. Aleida Guevara On the Cuban Experience, Resistance, and Struggle
Dr. Aleida Guevara, Cuban physician and daughter of revolutionary Che Guevara, spoke to Peoples Dispatch and Newsclick about her experience during her current visit to India. She talks about the love Indians have for Cuba and Che Guevara, how Cuba responded to the pandemic with the help of global solidarity in the face of the…
Fidel’s Emancipatory Manifesto
José Galindo It is ironic that he who said that men do not make history, but are made by it, has ended up being remembered as the sculptor of a watershed moment in the history of the 20th century. I am referring to Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, which was both the culmination of…
Fidel and a New Type of Relationship Between Cuba and the U.S.
José Ramón Cabañas The statue of Fidel Castro in Moscow. In order to understand Fidel Castro’s contribution to Political Science and, in particular, to the sphere of International Relations, especially in regard to Cuba’s ties with the United States, one must start from the precedent of the work and practice of José Martí, the Cuban…
La Gota de Agua: A New Documentary by Resumen Latinoamericano
A new documentary by Resumen Latinoamericano with English subtitles has been released in Cuba, under the theme of the economic, commercial and financial blockade that has been imposed on the Cuban people for 60 years. This past weekend the film also premiered in New York City at the National Network on Cuba conference that was…
Alpidio Alonso Grau: “In Cuba, Revolution and Culture are Inseparable”
Thalía Fuentes Puebla Interview with Alpidio Alonso Grau, Cuba’s Minister of Culture “Culture has been and remains an essential element to deeply understand the meaning of the social project we are building,” assured Cuba’s Minister of Culture, Alpidio Alonso Grau, during an exclusive interview to Cubadebate, on the occasion of the National Culture Day this…
Hurricane Ian: Cuba Offers a Lesson in Disaster Management
Cuba in the Eye of Washington’s Hurricane Manolo De Los Santos Since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States has been at odds with the island’s independent path. Hurricane Ian lashed at western Cuba on September 27, 2022. I waited desperately for a phone call from my friends in Puerto Esperanza, a small fishing village…
Speaking of the Real Cuba: Statement by Casa de las Américas
Casa de las Americas Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Cane supervises relief work in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Photo: Twitter Casa de las Américas, an iconic Cuban cultural institution, writes about the forces which are using the recent hurricane as a pretext to attack the country’s revolutionary process In recent days we have received many messages…
Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonization
Tricontinental Violet Parra (Chile). Untitled (unfinished), 1966. Embroidery / natural burlap. 136 x 200 cm. The works of art in this dossier belong to Casa de las Américas’ Haydee Santamaría Art of Our America (Nuestra América) collection. Since its founding, Casa de las Américas has established close ties with a significant number of internationally renowned…
The Cuban People Will Not Be Defeated
Peoples Dispatch Yuri A. Gala López addressing solidarity activists in New York City on the anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks. Yuri A. Gala López addressed solidarity activists on the anniversary of the storming of the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, commemorated as the beginning of the Cuban revolution. A gathering was…
Díaz-Canel: We Will Not Surrender, Nor Will We Let Ourselves Be Defeated!
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez Speech delivered by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at the closing of the Ninth Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of the People’s Power in its Ninth Legislature, at the Havana Convention Center,…
Cuban Culture is a Militant of Life, Not at the Side of the People but Within Them
Speech by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, at the closing of the 2nd National Council of the Uneac, Havana Convention Center, July 8, 2022, “Year 64 of the Revolution Dear friends, We come to this National Council three years…
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