COMPORTAMIENTO DE LA ECONOMÍA, CIERRE DEL 2021 Y I SEMESTRE 2022Noveno Período Ordinario de Sesiones de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, IX LegislaturaJulio de 2022 Full report here:
By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 4, 2022 from Havana. First posted here: https://www.resumen-english.org/2022/07/the-decadent-empire/ With a stroke of a pen the majority of the US Supreme Court has just set women’s rights in the United States back 50 […]
by Benjamin Norton, original post here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/10/cuba-mexico-amlo-us-blockade/ Mexican President López Obrador took a historic trip to Cuba, where he called for an end to the US blockade and criticized right-wing “coup-plotters.” He said Latin America should form a […]
By Salim Lamrani, August 15, 2021, translated by Walter Lippmann for Cuba News, original post here: https://walterlippmann.com/conversations-with-max-lesnik/ “In reality, the United States expects a total and definitive surrender from the Cuban people.” Born in 1930 in Cuba, in […]
From MINREX https://www.minrex.gob.cu/en/cuba-champions-solution-guarantees-security-and-sovereignty-all-statement-revolutionary-government Cuba’s relations with Ukraine include accepting and treating 25,000 Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10xE1CcKxQ Cuba champions a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all Statement by […]
Below, letter and list of signatories, led by Dilma Roussef, former president of Brazil; Rafaél Correa, former president of Ecuador; José Manuel Zelaya, former president of Honduras; and Ernesto Samper Pizano, former president of Colombia.
by Helen Yaffe, 20 July 21021, original post here: https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/20/whats-actually-going-on-in-cuba/ On Sunday 11 July, dozens of anti-government protests, apparently coordinated via social media, took place simultaneously throughout Cuba. In several places, including in San Antonio on the outskirts […]
Full article below. Original post at NLR here: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/day-zero-in-cuba HELEN YAFFE02 FEBRUARY 2021ECONOMICS The first of January 2021 was known as ‘Day Zero’ in Cuba. After almost three decades of operating with a dual currency, Cuba’s national peso […]
A Cuban classic. English translation from this site: https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Marti_Jose_Our-America.html The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that be can be mayor, humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings […]
by Tim Anderson, 2007, first post here: https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5609 In an age of propaganda and pseudo-democracy, the strongest opponents of imperial power are subject to the most ferocious attacks. One result of this is that many of the firmly […]
“Despite its limited material resources, Cuba is responsible for developing two of only 23 coronavirus vaccines to have entered phase III trials anywhere in the world – and it has another three on the way. Helen Yaffe (University […]
First posted 30 March 2021 at Counter Punch, here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/30/cuba-libre-to-be-covid-libre-five-vaccines-and-counting/ On 23 March 2021, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a group of Conservative Party backbenchers: ‘The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because […]
JOIN US IN ASKING THE NOBEL COMMITTEE TO AWARD CUBA’S HENRY REEVE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL BRIGADE A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE! See the website: https://www.cubanobel.org
Jeong I-na, former professor at the Busan University of Foreign Studies, wants to set the record straight about the public healthcare system in Cuba. Full PDF below, original post here: http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/PRINT/964270.html
The main article is in Spanish, but here is the English abstract: ‘The new coronavirus pandemic has challenged the capacity of health systems in most countries. Cuba’s strategy has recently been analyzed in an article published by President […]
Detailed Spanish language report on the work of Cuban Medical Brigades from 1963 to 2020. English language abstract below. Full PDF report below, original post here: https://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/208384 “This work addresses the main milestones in the history of Cuban […]
Chapter Three on ‘Sanctions’, from Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East’ (2019). “This chapter studies the persistent use of economic ‘sanctions’ as a measure of hybrid warfare, and so part of the composite aggression which includes […]
Journal article from 1977 on Marti and the USA
This 1977 PhD thesis (300pp) provides a useful overview of the key socio-political ideas of Cuba’s key independence writer, Jose Marti, whose complete works are in 29 volumes and in Spanish, here. https://www.clacso.org.ar/coleccion_jose_marti/index.php Jose Marti (1853-1895) was the […]
Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement on April 16, 2020. PDF below, first translated post here: https://www.resumen-english.org/2020/04/the-covid-19-pandemic-makes-clear-the-need-to-cooperate-despite-political-differences/
Cuba’s approach to the COVID19 epidemic is a useful reference point because the country has a proactive approach to public health and more distance than most from the private health corporations that dominate most other countries. PDF below, […]