The Healthcare System in Cuba
How a Tiny Island Defies U.S. Sanctions to Lead in Healthcare In the heart of the Cuban capital, the Dr. Cosme Ordoñez Carceller Teaching Polyclinic stands as a testament to…
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Lift the Cuban Trade Embargo Now
Ten years ago, the U.S. and Cuba announced the start of normalization between our two countries. Americans and Cubans alike could see a bit of light through a crack in…
Cuba, buckle up! Trump elected US president
The people of the United States and most of the rest of the world woke up this week to the last news they wanted to hear. Not only had Donald…
Cuba: From Cruise Ships to Warships
by Reed Lindsay and Daniel Montero HAVANA, Cuba – Six years ago, cruise ships from Miami were dropping off boatloads of U.S. visitors at Havana’s port on a daily basis.…
Three Lessons I Learned on My Visit to Cuba
The Cuban revolution offers key lessons for progressive people in the United States about how to organize society in a way that favors the majority, and not an elite few.…
An Entirely Avoidable Humanitarian Crisis—US Embargo Continues to Inflict Immense Suffering on Cuba
Cuba provides an inspiring example of a very small country whose doctors have reached some of the most difficult areas of human distress and disasters to provide their medical services…
Senator Cardin Must Help End the Blockade of Cuba
by Rev. Deborah McEachran and Rev. Dr. Eliezer Valentín-Castañón Cuba is going hungry. The costs of food and other basic necessities are skyrocketing. Rolling blackouts periodically plunge the island into…
The Knowledge Economy and Socialism: Science and Society in Cuba
“Cuba’s future must, by necessity, be a future of scientists,” Fidel Castro proclaimed in 1960. As Agustín Lage Dávila shows in this pathbreaking book, Cuba has in fact become a…
UN Overwhelmingly Condemn U.S. Embargo Of Cuba
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted its annual resolution calling on the U.S. to end its decades-long economic blockade of Cuba. The document, which has been adopted for the…
The World Say NO to US Blockade of Cuba: CodePink
At the United Nations this week, the world community has overwhelmingly spoken out against the relentless U.S. embargo on Cuba. Yet President Biden remains unmoved, stubbornly clinging to the anachronic…
Idalia, captions, Cuba, and MSM
Recent tropical Storm Idalia’s destruction in and the toll it has taken from parts of the U.S. are now well reported in the US media. International news agencies also covered…
Cuba Reaffirms Socialism While It Reckons With Its Private Sector
Seventy years have passed since Fidel Castro and a daring group of young Cubans launched an assault on the Moncada Barracks in eastern Cuba, aiming to topple the Fulgencio Batista…
Cuba Condemns EU Parliament Resolution Calling For Sanctions Against President
Cuba's National Assembly said on Wednesday it "strongly condemns" a resolution by the European Parliament, which criticized the country's human rights record and called for EU sanctions against Cuban President…
The Fuel Shortages in Cuba are Worse Than You Think
by Kaitlin Blanchard and Eli Smith One hundred and fifty young people from the United States and Canada arrived in Cuba in late April 2023, just days before International Workers…
U.S. Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba
by Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales Addressing allegations of “Chinese spy base” in Cuba. On June 8, the U.S. media added to its long storybook of tales to scare…
Young People From the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege
by Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales It’s a hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana, and the air sticks to the skin. You can…
How the Cuban Government and Its People Collaborated on the Family Code
On September 25, 2022, Cuba passed one of the world’s most progressive codes on families. All in one go, the small island nation legalized same-sex marriage, defined and upheld the rights of…
The US Blockade and Its Effects on Cuban Medicine
The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.1 It is innovative, preventative, people-oriented, comprehensive, community-centered, internationalist, and, of course, de-commodified—treating healthcare as a…
Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism
by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad Cuba, a country of 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades. Despite this…
Respect Cuba And Venezuela, Calls Lula
“Venezuela will once again be treated normally, as all countries want to be treated,” said Lula da Silva. A teleSUR report said: On Monday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva asked…
The U.S. Blockade of Cuba Hurts Medical Patients in Both Countries
The blockade of Cuba limits its ability to share its scientific and technological advances with the rest of the world. Scientists in Cuba believe that the breakthroughs they have made…
Cuba Goes on a Diplomatic Tour in an Increasingly Multipolar World
On November 27 morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, walked into a voting station in the Playa neighborhood to vote in Cuba’s municipal elections. He had landed in Havana an hour earlier from an intense…
Cuba Rejects Sanctions Against Russia
During a speech at the Duma (Russian parliament) on Tuesday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel rejected the unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies on Russia. A teleSUR report said:…
Victory For Cuba: UN Condemn U.S. Blockade
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the 30th year in a row. Only the U.S.…
Cuba: A Tale of Two Hurricanes
Ernest Hemingway learned in Cuba that the best way to get through a hurricane is to have your ears tuned to a battery-powered radio and keep your hands busy with…
Cuba in the Eye of Washington’s Hurricane
Hurricane Ian lashed at western Cuba on September 27, 2022. I waited desperately for a phone call from my friends in Puerto Esperanza, a small fishing village on the northern coast of…
Life Expectancy: The US and Cuba in the Time of Covid
The article documents that, for the first time, life expectancy in Cuba exceeds that in the US by almost three years. It explores intertwined reasons behind this occurrence, including responses…
Sanctions Fuel the Fire at Cuba’s Matanzas Oil Storage
by Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos On August 5, a major oil storage facility in Matanzas, Cuba, 65 miles east of Havana, was hit by lightning. A tank…
While Cuba Deals with Blazing Fire, the U.S. Watches and Waits
by Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 and continues…
Cuba Should Be Removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism
by Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries on…
How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality and Banishing the Diseases of the Poor
by Vijay Prashad & Manolo De Los Santos To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few…
Cuba’s Nonalignment: A Foreign Policy of Peace and Socialism
Though Bandung in Indonesia and Havana in Cuba couldn’t be farther apart geographically—with each city located on two distant islands in their respective countries and separated by more than 17,000…
For Biden’s Summit of the Americas, Obama’s Handshake With Raúl Castro Shows the Way
On May 16, the Biden administration announced new measures to “increase support for the Cuban people.” They included easing travel restrictions and helping Cuban-Americans support and connect with their families.…
The Heroes of Hotel Saratoga
At first, there was an explosion. The six-story building vibrated, and a few wires snapped with the force of a whiplash. Immediately afterward, more than half of the facade collapsed…
‘We Will Prevail’: A Conversation With Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel
In 1994, Miguel Díaz-Canel began a new position in Santa Clara, not far from his birthplace of Placetas, as the provincial secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. He set aside…
Hemispheric Gangsterism: The US Embargo Against Cuba Turns 60
It all seems worn, part of an aspic approach to foreign policy. But US President Joe Biden is keen to ensure that old, and lingering mistakes, retain their flavour. Towards…
The Blockade Against Cuba Turns 60
It’s easy to say, but it’s been six very hard decades that began with disconcerting lightness and the belief that the United States government’s blockade of Cuba would not last…
“Havana Syndrome” – CIA Rules Out Foreign Power Involvement
I swear, I can’t hear well. Photo: Osval, Granma “Havana Syndrome” came out as an accusation, first, against Cuba, and then, against Russia. Now, the CIA has found the fact: No hostile…
What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Cuba and Venezuela
What’s changed in Venezuela and Cuba since Biden became President? Nothing. But as US foreign policy on those two great threats to America continues seamlessly on from the Trump presidency…
Cubans More Excited About School Reopening Than Regime Change
"If you build it, they will come," said Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams. In Cuba, they didn't come. Dissidents on the island, with their U.S. backers, had been working…
Why Is the U.S. Fueling the November 15 Cuba Protests?
On September 20, letters began to arrive at eight Cuban municipal or provincial government headquarters announcing the holding of “peaceful” marches on November 15 by a group called Archipiélago. The motivation for these…
Defying Empire: Cuba’s Contributions to the Fight Against Racism and White Supremacy
The white capitalist cannibal has always fed on the world's black peoples. White capitalist imperialist society is profoundly and unmistakably racist. Walter Rodney White supremacy and racism cannot be…
The U.S. Has an Unhealthy Obsession With Cuba
The piggy bank was rattled again. In September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $6,669,000 in grants for projects aimed at “regime change” in Cuba, a euphemism to…
How U.S. Interference in Cuba Creates a False Picture of Its Society
by Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appears to be obsessed with Cuba. Every few days he takes to social media or makes remarks to the press about…
The money that never arrives in Cuba
Cubans living abroad have been unable to send remittances to their loved ones on the island due to the unilateral coercive measure imposed by Donald Trump just before leaving office…
What? A World Boycott of US Products Until US Stops Its Embargo of Cuba and Leaves Guantanamo?
A Half-century Long Brutal USA Embargo Against Tiny Cuba! 184 Nations Vote For its End & Against US & Israel NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) - ‘U.S. President Joe…
Targeting Cuba and China: Disinformation against Communism
I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. — Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state on how the United States conducts its business One of the…
As Progressives Call for End to Blockade, Biden Announces More Sanctions Against Cuba
While President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to reverse the "failed" policies of his predecessor that "inflicted harm on Cubans and their families," his administration—already under mounting pressure from progressives to deliver…
68th Anniversary of the Moncada Attack
68 years ago, on July 26, 1953, an angry young lawyer, Fidel Castro, led a small band of armed men in a failed attempt to seize the Moncada barracks in…
Cuba is an example of resistance, says Mexican president while wants to replace OAS
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday that Cuba is an “example of resistance,” and proposed the entire country should be declared a World Heritage site. Media reports said:…
“Let Cuba live”: Lula, Correa, Cornel West and 400 Leading Personalities of the World Demand to U.S. President Biden
People from different walks of life are standing in support of revolution in Cuba. They are calling to defend the revolution in Cuba. Leading artists, intellectuals, personalities, U.S. lawmakers are…
Cuba: US narrative paving way for military incursion
Threat for imperialist intervention in Cuba is increasing. A Havana, July 22, 2021 datelined AP report said: Cuba criticized the US and President Joe Biden on Wednesday for a series…
Cuba’s Fight against Imperialism
Cuba has been witnessing anti-government protests since July 11, 2021. Several objective factors account for these demonstrations. Cuba is experiencing its greatest economic crisis in 30 years. The devastating knock-on effects of the Covid-19…
Subvert Cuba: Imperialist campaign and few facts
Assassinate Fidel and Raul, and subvert Cuba are now well-known facts related to the Empire. The Empire is ceaselessly engaged with this task since Revolution in Cuba; and the Empire…
Why there are increasing reasons now for the USA to end its blockade of Cuba?
The USA has imposed the longest ever embargo on Cuba which has continued for almost six decades with very limited relaxations for short durations . The Cubans ( as well…
CUBA: Differing Voices, Different Protests – I
A ‘Protest Song’, the Singers, what else they sang for, A Wrong Protester Vis-à-vis other kind of Cuban ‘protesters’ least talked-of #Patriayvida, @descemerbueno, @gentedezona, (René Pérez Joglar) @residente, @lajovencuba A…
USA’s Imperialist Stranglehold on Cuba
Cuba has been witnessing anti-government protests since July 11, 2021. These demonstrations are fuelled by a number of factors. The devastating knock-on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on a developing…
Hands Off Cuba!
It was not fire-breathing communists but Jawaharlal Nehru who took the initiative to recognize Cuba at a time when Western powers were bristling with frustrated rage against the tiny island-country…
Bomb Cuba, and a story to compare Cuba
There’s now call to bomb Cuba – a suggestion from the land of inequality, the Empire. Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami, has called for US military intervention in Cuba. The…
Cuba: An Unexpected ‘Political’ Storm
Since July 11, Cuba has been facing a protest that started in a city and then spread to 60 to 70 points of turbulence. Everyone knows that Cuba is a…
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