Ramona Wadi In recognition for the Cuban doctors’ efforts to aid nations across the world to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, there have been recommendations for the Henry Reeves Medical Brigade to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The brigade was founded by the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro after the U.S. rejected Cuba’s offer…
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Sexual Rights and Emancipation in Cuba
Mariela Castro Espín The 1959 revolution represented Cuba’s achievement of national sovereignty; the launching of a project of social justice and equity; and the beginning of transformations in the nation and its culture, the most profound and radical in their history. An event of such magnitude could not but completely change policies regarding gender and…
COVID-19: Novel Molecule Shows Promising Results, Increasing Survival Chances for Critical Patients
Orfilio Peláez The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, inaugurated on July 1, 1986 by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, has become one of the country’s strengths in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Orfilio Peláez In its commitment to the fight against COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the Center for Genetic Engineering…
Press Conference Offered by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on the Terrorist Attack on the Cuban Embassy
Virtual Press Conference offered by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, from the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. May 12, 2020. Year 62 of the Revolution. Juan A.Fernández (Moderator).- Good afternoon. From the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, we announce…
Cuban President Regrets USA Does Not Cooperate in Fighting Terrorism
Havana, May 15 – The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, stated that the United States does not cooperate in the fight against terrorism, and is in complicity with those actions against Cuba. ‘Cuba is still waiting for the results of the investigation and measures against the terrorist who attacked (the Cuban embassy) in Washington,’ the…
Connecting the Dots on the Assault of the Cuban Embassy
Rosa Miriam Elizalde Goya’s Disasters of War A few hours before the attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington, a woman wearing a red raincoat, dark glasses, mask and hood, was photographing the facade of the 16th Street mansion in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood. The security cameras recorded her in broad daylight and, despite her disguise,…
Can We Simultaneously Oppose Bayer/Monsanto’s Biotechnology and Support Cuba’s Interferon Alpha 2B?
Don Fitz Genetically engineered crops are a form of food imperialism. This technology allows mega-corporations like Bayer/Monsanto to patent seeds, lure farmers into buying them with visions of high yields, and then destroy the ability of small farmers to survive. Genetic engineering produces an artificial combination of plant traits which often results in foods with…
The Secret Files: A New Military Espionage Plot Revealed in Colombia
Misión Verdad Lawyers in Colombia demand disciplinary and judicial sanctions against Colombian army officers. Image: EntreOpinión It is not the first time that a scandalous and illegal spying by the Colombian authorities on part of the population has been exposed. In 2014, Semana magazine published an investigation into the espionage operations carried out by U.S….
Rereading the Concept of Revolution Today
Abel Prieto Fidel did not leave us a catechism or a collection of slogans; he leaves a masterly synthesis of his thought on what the Revolution is, what it should always be, what principles it cannot abandon. He describes it in all its dimensions; in all its redemptive, historical and moral greatness. And he speaks…
Declaration | Online Summit Level Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Contact Group in Response to Covid-19
Online Summit level Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Contact Group in response to Covid-19 DECLARATION 4 May 2020 We, the Heads of State and Government, having met through video conference at the Online Summit level Meeting of the NAM Contact Group in response to Covid-19, under the theme of “United against COVID-19 pandemic” on 4…
Statement by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba for the Online Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Response to COVID-19
Your Excellencies, Esteemed President Ilham Aliyev, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, I thank Azerbaijan, the Chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement, for calling to this meeting to exchange on the urgent and needed efforts which allow us to face COVID-19. I avail myself of this occasion to congratulate Uganda, which shall assume the NAM Chairmanship…
A Decaying Empire: Residual Terrorism and Barbaric Fundamentalism
Stella CalloniThe attack against the headquarters of the Cuban Embassy in Washington in the early hours of this Thursday, April 30 could never have taken place without the complicity of the powers-that-be, since it is an area in the neighborhood of the heavily guarded diplomatic headquarters, a reminder that without the complicity of the intelligence…
