The Havana authorities imposed as of this Friday and indefinitely a night curfew from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., in order to stop the coronavirus infections, which have shot up in the last two months. The island’s capital, with 2.2 million inhabitants and where a group of containment measures already governed, reported 385 new positive …

President Joe Biden’s decision to stop the construction of the wall with Mexico could not be timelier. Now is the time to tear down another wall, the ineffective U.S. embargo on Cuba, which has caused even more damage than the wall with Mexico, and which is equally unjustified. Although far from being the most serious …

La experiencia docente busca contribuir a la formación de personas vinculadas a medios radiales de la nación caribeña. La entrada Radialistas por la no violencia debaten en curso virtual en Cuba se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.

Five deaths due to COVID-19 focus the news related to the pandemic in Cuba, according to the most recent report issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The new victims are all men: two from Camagüey (93 and 76 years old), two from Havana (85 and 92) and a 76-year-old from Pinar del Río. …

It’s already been a month since the implementation of the monetary reorganization in Cuba. Since last January 1, Cubans face a long-delayed scenario which since its official announcement in December has shaken the island’s day-to-day life and has forced state businesspeople and officials as well as ordinary workers and retirees to use a calculator. No …

La Redacción IPS Cuba retoma la cronología de los principales hechos relacionados con la permanencia de la covid-19 en la nación caribeña, cuando esta enfrenta el tercer rebrote de la epidemia con un récord de casos diarios. La entrada Cronología: Cuba frente a la covid-19 (Parte VII) se publicó primero en IPS Cuba.

All Cuban provinces reported infections from the SARS-CoV-2 virus this Tuesday, when the total number of cases decreased to 893, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) report. Guantánamo continues to lead the provinces in terms of incidence rate (253.3 per 100,000), although the easternmost region reported 138 positive cases, much less than the …

A donation of hospital equipment and medical supplies such as sanitary and expendable hygienic material arrived yesterday in the port of Mariel coming from Canada and sent by Cubans residing in that country. The content includes artificial respiration fans, general anesthesia machine, hospital beds, wheelchairs, orthopedic, gynecology, clinical laboratory, urology and pediatric equipment, among others. …

“On the inside, gentlemen, is Guillermo. See how green she is and full of promise.” So wrote Ernest Hemingway in his posthumously published novel, Islands in the Stream, a fictionalized account of the author’s hunt for German submarines off the north coast of Cuba during World War Two. Cayo Guillermo is a small island in …

Cuba registered around 1,600 pediatric-age patients confirmed with COVID-19 in January of this year, which represents hundreds of infections of children and adolescents more than those reported in all of 2020. The island has reported a total of a 2,882 positive cases for SARS-Cov-2 in that age range since the beginning of the epidemic last …