By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 11, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
Contrary to the inertia of the news that tells of Cubans leaving, they have not left their family homes or their land; they resisted the promise of no more queues or blackouts and the exodus to any other shore of the Atlantic. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 1, 2024
photo: Abel Padron Padilla
Artificial intelligence is neither intelligent nor artificial. The booming technology of machine learning produces forms of knowledge unheard of in human history, but it is not based on artifice or on the intelligence of robots, but on the work of specific human beings: artists, musicians, programmers, writers, designers, audiovisual producers…, whose creative and professional work is appropriated by a handful of companies. (more…)
By Graciela Ramírez Cruz on March 15, 2024
Arleen Rodriguez receiving the Marti Journalism award with President Diaz Canel
Arleen Rodríguez Derivet receives the José Martí National Journalism Award for her life’s work. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 1, 2024
Who needs press conferences with civilized exchanges, debates with politicians behind podiums or speeches in a square when you have instant access to unfiltered digital platforms and artificial intelligence (AI)? (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 11, 2023
Henry Kissinger, – getty images
Henry Kissinger, who will not rest in peace, proposed in 1976 to bomb Havana, subject the city to a naval blockade and mine Cuba’s ports. He fantasized about it seriously, according to documents declassified almost a decade ago and published by Peter Kornbluh, a researcher at George Washington University’s National Security Archive. (more…)
By Graciela Ramírez on November 11, 2023
From the moment I was informed that I would be invited to the congress of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) I felt honored and grateful because It has fallen to us to live through a very complex stage of the world, the region and of this island that we love so much. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 13, 2023 from Havana
gaza
No medicine, no water, no electricity, no fuel. Hunger and desperation as a political weapon. “We are fighting animals and we act accordingly,” said Israel’s Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, when announcing the total encirclement against the Gaza Strip. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 30, 2023
diplomat Felix Garcia Rodriguez, machine-gunned on 55th Street in Manhattan on September 11, 1980.
Cuba is included in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism drawn up every year by the U.S. government. The arguments are ridiculous because there is not a single evidence that the island is a threat to anyone in the world. (more…)