Entries Published On December, 2020
Cuba reported 100 new cases of COVID-19 at the close of this Wednesday
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) registered 100 new positive cases for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, half of them infected abroad. According to the MINSAP daily report, at the end of this Wednesday, 3,675 patients were hospitalized, of which 862 are active cases, and 848 are suspects. Se confirmaron 100 nuevos casos …
This is not a profile, it’s just about Gay Talese in Havana*
If the journalism students of my generation had been told that Gay Talese, the author of Honor Thy Father (1971) and dozens of iconic stories of New Journalism such as “Mr. Bad News,” walked the boiling streets of Havana camouflaged in that daily life of survivals, the entourage that he would have achieved was going …
Human rights: guide for dialogue in Cuba (I)
The second Whereas of the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights announces “…the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief.”1 Since the Declaration was proclaimed in 1948 to 2020, the wounds of inequality among human beings, poverty, hunger, privation of millions of people, social and …
Confronting and Ending the US Blockade Against Cuba
Photograph Source: NatalieMaynor – CC BY 2.0 U.S. news reports rarely touch upon the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. The blockade destroys people’s lives and threatens the island’s economy and Cuba’s economic development. Damning evidence appears in the Cuba’s Foreign Ministry’s most recent report on adverse effects. Its authors refer to “the longest-lasting trade embargo …