Even with the US blockade limiting trade and access to equipment, Cuban health care workers know how to save the lives of newborns—and their mothers. What really has an impact on infant mortality is [...] Continue Reading
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Five Lies About Cuba Dispelled
Lie #1 Cuba is a “State Sponsor of Terrorism.” This lie is based on claims that Cuba harbors terrorists who threaten the US placing the country, along with North Korea, Iran and Syria, one of four [...] Continue Reading
Message from a Pregnant Cuban Woman
(Editor’s note: This article is an English translation of a statement by the Federación de Mujeres Cubanas (Federation of Cuban Women).)Comrades, sisters, friends: I am speaking today as a woman [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Under Intensified U.S. Siege Warfare
On Jan. 29, the Trump administration declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” and imposed an energy blockade on the small energy-importing island nation. U.S. coercive measures have ranged [...] Continue Reading
Cuba bajo una guerra de asedio intensificada por Estados Unidos
La administración Trump, el 29 de enero, declaró a Cuba “una amenaza inusual y extraordinaria” e impuso un bloqueo energético contra Cuba, una pequeña nación insular que importa energía. Las medidas [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Troublemaking at the UN-CSW
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a commission of the United Nations and is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the [...] Continue Reading
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
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Cuban Doctors the Pride of the Nation
For many decades, Cuba has been sending thousands of medical professionals overseas to work in countries that needed doctors for a variety of reasons—post-colonial countries such as Algeria, Zimbabwe, [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Threats Against Cuban International Medical Program
For many years, Cuba has been providing both disaster-related and not-quite-routine medical care to many countries in the world, almost all in the Global South. This is often focused on post-colonial [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Briefly Off the “Terrorism” List
(Editor’s note: Just a few hours into the new Trump administration, the White House announced that Cuba is back on the list of “terrorist countries.”) The U.S. State Department maintains a list of [...] Continue Reading
Devastating Hurricane Rafael Hits Cuba
On Nov. 6 (Wednesday), Hurricane Rafael hit central Cuba, and I was there. This is a contemporary account written from Marianao, Havana, four days later, while our electricity was still out. It’s [...] Continue Reading
Why Isn’t an Armed Attack on the Cuban Embassy Called Terrorim?
On April 30, 2020, Alexander Alazo, a Texas resident and Trump supporter—he wrote Trump 2020 on a Cuban flag—took an AK-47 and fired 32 shots at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. He didn’t hit [...] Continue Reading