Although the macroeconomic figures were showing a healthy country in 2019, the slowdown has since left its mark on employment and household income which inequality made more visible in the economic sectors and geographical areas where poverty predominates. The Covid-19 pandemic rushed the downturn. Osvaldo Rodríguez Martínez Reports […]
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US blockade against Cuba: immoral and criminal
The negative impact caused by the economic blockade enforced by the United States against Cuba increased with Covid-19. Details released by the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) point out that this US policy denies the largest country in the Antilles the right to acquire technology, raw materials, reagents, diagnostic […]
British MPs call for lifting of blockade on Cuba
Fifty seven British members of parliament have signed a motion in the British Parliament which calls on the British Government to promote international cooperation between the UK and Cuba and urge the Biden administration to normalise relations by removing Cuba from its ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ list and ending the […]
The blue flower
I have a distinct childhood memory, of a scene from a film I saw, where a man is looking at a blue flower, which I remember as a blue rose. Steve Latham The image has stayed with me, throughout my life: a picture disconnected from anything else, anything […]
Fight the power
What Kill the bill protestors object to may not be a curb on their freedoms so much as a limit to their privilege. Darrin Burgess* The Kill the bill protests this month against a proposal that would grant police extra powers to curb mass demonstrations reveals a peculiar […]