Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro has long been known in Cuba for his proximity to power rather than for public political ambitions. The 42-year-old grandson and former bodyguard of ex-president Raúl Castro, known
In September 1960, in the heart of Black America, Harlem’s Hotel Theresa became the stage for one of the world’s most monumental encounters. When Malcolm X and Fidel Castro met there 65
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Editorial Today, the thirteenth of August, we mark the nativity of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, a man whose silhouette looms still across the fractured cartography of the twentieth century. Born on the
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Bronze sculptures commemorating the historic meeting between Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were recently removed from a public square in Mexico City’s Cuauhtémoc borough. The statues, depicting the iconic revolutionary leaders in
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“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.”
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Cuba is once again facing a severe, multi-faceted crisis, not due to the hurricanes that pummel through the Caribbean every year, but from the relentless and suffocating pressure exerted by its powerful neighbour to the
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The brief freeze and rapid partial reinstatement of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding in early 2025 helped expose it as a US regime-change tool. Created to rebrand CIA covert operations as
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I had the privilege of accompanying the papal flight to Cuba and the United States in September 2015. As the only journalist from the country being visited, I was granted the first
More Cuba has received its first shipment of solar power plant equipment from China as part of a major initiative to reduce its reliance on imported fossil fuels and ease the country’s persistent
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In an address to the High-Level Segment of the Fifty-Eighth Session of the Human Rights Council, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, delivered a pointed critique of international economic coercion,
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The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has vehemently condemned the recent decision by the U.S. government to house migrants at the Guantanamo Naval Base, describing it as a “brutal” and “irresponsible” act.
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