China and Cuba build on the friendship established by Chairman Mao and Fidel Castro

On the morning of September 4, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and President Xi Jinping met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban...

Sunflowers grace Miami shrine as Cuban Americans celebrate feast of Our Lady of Charity

MIAMI (OSV News) — Dressed in the customary yellow colors of the event and with umbrellas in hand, elementary school student Aniela Alejandra Garcia and her mother, Yeily Garcia, didn’t let the weather stop them from approaching the statue of the...

North Korean Defector Ri Il-gyu on Abductions and the Kim Regime's Future 

"In a society saturated with immorality and injustice, life becomes unbearable," said Ri Il-gyu, a former counselor at the North Korean embassy in Cuba who defected to South Korea in November 2023, explaining his decision to flee. Although Ri was...

Cuban VP Checks Industrial Center in Cen…

The completion of the Labiofam business group's industrial complex in Villa Clara, now more than 95 percent complete, was reviewed by Salvador Valdés Mesa, a member of the Party's Political Bureau and Vice President of the Republic. Santa Clara,...

Cuban VP checks industrial center in central region of the country

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Sep 12 (ACN) The completion of the Labiofam business group's industrial complex in Villa Clara, now more than 95 % complete, was reviewed by Salvador Valdes Mesa, a member of the Party's Political Bureau and Vice President of...

How India helped scuttle the global plastics treaty

India has opposed limits on the production of primary virgin plastic in the name of development and industrialisation. It thus became a party to scuttling the proposed United Nations Global Plastics Treaty (INC 5.2) for which negotiations were...

Cuba Denounces the Impact of the Blockade on the Right to Food before the UN

Cuba incentiva los proyectos de cooperación internacional para el desarrollo agrícola y la industria alimentaria. En la foto, los cultivos de arroz en Los Palacios, provincia de Pinar del Río, de conjunto con Vietnam. Foto: Periódico Granma. Cuban...

Florida’s Cubans are now divided on Trump: ‘He acts like Fidel’ 

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of processing immigration applications, goes around asking coworkers and neighbors whether someone is eligible for U.S. citizenship or not, in the style of the Cuban...

The Average Daily Power Outage in Cuba Was Almost 16 Hours in July and 15 in August

The Director General of Electricity noted that “there were circuits that were turned off longer.” Two Turkish floating power plants are maintained in the country, delivering about 70 megawatts per day. A street in San Antonio de los Baños during a...

Cuban volunteers: Stories of humanity and dedication without borders

0 Cuban volunteers: Stories of humanity and dedication without borders May 21, 1963, marked a founding date in the history of Cuban solidarity, with the official beginning of international medical collaboration in Algeria. Since then, and for more...

Caribbean Matters: Rubio continues attacks on Cuban medical missions

Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of the Caribbean. Last week we took a look at the...

Today marks the 125-year anniversary of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history

STORY HIGHLIGHTS CATEGORY 4: Winds of 130-145 mph at landfall DEADLIEST NATURAL DISASTER: 6,000-12,000 deaths SEAWALL: Built after the 1900 hurricane STORY As we near the peak of hurricane season, it was 125 years ago that Texas’s history was...

Cuban Honey Sweetens Europe While It Sours for Producers

overwhelmed by unpaid debts and lack of supplies Beehives of “Carlos,” a beekeeper from eastern Cuba. Photo montage by elTOQUE with images courtesy of the source. By Raul Medina Orama (El Toque) HAVANA TIMES – Any jar of organic honey sold in...

Cuba's electrical grid collapses in nationwide blackout

HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist Cuba's national power grid collapsed for the fourth time in less than a year on Wednesday morning causing a nationwide blackout, authorities said. "There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System, SEN,...

‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang

In the summer of 1970, a group of aspirant revolutionaries arrived in Jordan from West Germany. They sought military training though they had barely handled weapons before. They sought a guerrilla war in the streets of Europe, but had never done...

At London’s anti-Trump rally, I sensed the death of liberal England

Jacques is at home in a protest, calmly walking a few paces ahead of the red and black Socialist Students banner. He stands out from the Palestine flags and furious children in keffiyehs – chanting “Keir Starmer, here I say, how many kids did you...

Cuban-based Ghanaian medical students appeal to Mahama over 17-month stipend arrears

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), Cuba chapter, has issued an urgent appeal to President John Dramani Mahama to intervene in what they describe as a humanitarian crisis facing Ghanaian medical students in Cuba. According to the...

Mexico and Cuba sign agreement on Sembrando Vida program

5 The Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (Amexcid) and the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment signed today the Memorandum of Understanding for the second phase of the Sembrando Vida program. In a message on the...

Cuban deputy PM opens two new solar parks

HOLGUIN, Cuba, Sep 9 (ACN) Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes Menendez, Deputy Prime Minister, officially opened the photovoltaic parks in the Pilon area, in the municipality of Antilla, and in Providencia, near Frank Pais International...

Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines reported on situation of the National Electric System

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 9 (ACN) Lazaro Guerra Hernandez, Director General of Electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), reported on Monday at a press conference on the latest partial disconnection of the National Electric System (SEN) on...