La Jornada Editorial on May 17, 2022
Cuban doctors march in May 1 solidarity demonstration, photo: Bill Hackwell
Last Monday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that during his visit to Cuba a health agreement was signed that includes the hiring of more than 500 doctors from the island to face the deficit that our country has, particularly in the most vulnerable areas; the sending of Mexican general practitioners to that nation to be trained in specialties and the importation of the Cuban vaccine against covid-19 to be applied in children. (more…)
May 16, 2022
Today, the US government announced several measures, positive but very limited in scope, regarding Cuba in the areas of visas, regular migration, flights to the provinces, remittances and adjustments to regulations for transactions with the non-state sector. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 15, 2022 from Havana
The United States has decided to exclude Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the IX Summit of the Americas, scheduled to be held June 8-10 in Los Angeles, but the continent has not remained silent. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on May 15, 2022
No to the IMF, photo: Gaston Cuello
The history between Argentine and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is more than troublesome. Last week, the Argentine Senate passed a bill aimed to settle the last chapter, which was opened after former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) borrowed US$44 billion (more…)
By Ilka Oliva-Corado on May 13, 2022
Photo: David Bacon
Cayetana turns on the stove and begins to heat the food that she will put in the containers for her lunch, it is four o’clock in the morning. (more…)
By Cheryl LaBash on May 14, 2022 from Havana
San Francisco, protest Supreme Court attack on Women’s rights. Photo: Bill Hackwell
When you have touched a woman you have struck a rock, says a South African proverb. It continues, you have dislodged a boulder, you will be crushed. The US Supreme Court justices who penned the recently leaked draft majority opinion abolishing voluntary legal pregnancy termination, should take heed. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on May 12, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
First, the explosion. The six-story building vibrated, then some cables jumped, with the force of a whiplash. Then, more than half of the façade collapsed without giving time, without announcing anything, each piece of floor swallowing the one above, (more…)
By Rogelio Mayta on May 13, 2022
Rogelio Mayta
Humanity is at a turning point. Not only war and climate change threaten life on our planet. Ideologies and some people as well (more…)