By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 28, 2020
The state of Pennsylvania has a population similar to that of Cuba, but has 35 times more confirmed cases of coronavirus and 63 times more lethal victims. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 14, 2020
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 (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 16, 2020
“If we saw this pandemic as a conflict, then we could talk about two fronts,” Carl Miller, research director of the UK-based Demos Group’s Centre for Social Network Analysis, told Al Jazeera. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 19, 2020
Passengers of MS Braemar express their gratitude to Cuba. Photo: Ricardo López Hevia
The cruise ship MS Braemar, with five confirmed cases of Covid-19 and a thousand people on board, docked shortly before dawn this Wednesday in the Port of Mariel, 40 kilometers from Havana. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 5, 2020
Dashiell Hammett interrogated in Congress for being a communist in 1953
I was remembering the interrogation of the writer Dashiell Hammett by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s collaborators in 1953 during these days of scandal because Bernie Sanders spoke fairly well about Cuba. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 20, 2020
Rep. Mickey Leland on a world hunger delegation to Africa, 1980
Cuba’s antiviral Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec) is among the medicines chosen by China to treat the coronavirus, the disease that has already caused at least 1,800 deaths in that country. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 23, 2020
Photo: Minrex
Think tanks in the United States and Cuban researchers agree on one thing: the policy of more sanctions and the extension of the U.S. blockade will not change the socialist course of Cuba. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 12, 2019
Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba’s archipelago fits 90 times into the United States. There is no lithium, nor large mineral resources, and so far, not a single (more…)