Cuba, like every other country on the planet, is struggling with the impact of COVID-19. This small island of 11 million people has created five vaccine candidates and sent its medical workers through the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade ...
While right-wing Cubans in Miami call him “comunista,” Carlos Lazo has no time for ideology. He is neither for or against the Cuban government; he is for the Cuban people, the Cuban families. And he ...
Biden ignores the crisis in Cuba at his own peril. Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign ...
Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy. In 1998, after a 34-year career with the United Nations—including as an Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq—he resigned when the UN ...
(By: James DiEugenio, CovertAction Magazine) When Oliver Stone’s blockbuster film JFK premiered in 1991, it delivered a hugely embarrassing shock to academic historians, Democratic Party grandees, corporate media pundits and other respected purveyors of conventional wisdom. ...
“Perpetuating the myth that Cuba is a threat to the American people—while minimizing the threat posed by far-right extremists at home—is an embarrassment to our country on the world stage.” On January 11, in his ...
Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread of Ebola. Dr. Báez was one of 165 Cuban doctors of the Henry ...
Instead of continuing down this imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations. (Common Dreams) U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. ...
A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that he is not aware of any German doctors in Italy, even though both ...
A newly approved Cuban constitution substantially expands social, political and economic rights in Cuba. (By María Isabel Alfonso, The Conversation) Cuba has rejected a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in its new and revised constitution, a move ...
(The Conversation, by Jana Lipman, Tulane University) The naval base at Guantanamo Bay is quietly commemorating its 115th anniversary. On Dec. 10, 1903, the United States established its first overseas military base on 45 square miles ...
The More Doctors program serves more than 3,600 cities all over Brazil, especially in remote and poor areas. (Peoples Dispatch) “There’s something about the Brazilian people that they open the doors to all foreigners and ...
The first sonic attacks began in Cuba two years ago but spread to China in 2018, is Russia the culprit? Mysterious sonic attacks began in at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba in 2016. Twenty-four Americans ...
On Saturday, Cuba’s National Assembly appointed former leader Raul Castro to lead a commission charged with revamping the country’s constitution. The revisions are expected to provide the legal support for the country’s more open social ...
Last Thursday marked the beginning of a new era for Cuba, the communist state picked Miguel Diaz-Canel as the country’s new president and the first president after the Castro era. Diaz-Canel is a former vice ...
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