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…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 17, 2019
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Hispanist Karl Zeligman said he was 12 years old when he left Germany in 1939 on a plane occupied by Jewish children bound for London. (more…)
By Alicia Jrapko on September 12, 2019
For more than 60 years now, Cuba has been a victim of a brutal US commercial, financial and economic blockade and now in a blatant act of mass censorship and blockage of internet access, (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 25, 2019
About a year ago, 105 political organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean and 139 leaders of the region linked to the Sao Paulo Forum were studied in Twitter (more…)