President Chavez presented his annual report on activities carried out in 2011 and his program for 2012 to the Venezuelan Parliament. After thoroughly carrying out the formalities required by this important activity, he addressed the official state authorities, members of parliament from all parties, and supporters and opposition members who... » read this article

Mirebalais, Haiti - Since October 2010, when a Cuban medical mission first detected cholera in Haiti, the disease has killed 6,600 people and sickened more than 476,000 – nearly 5% of the nation’s population – in what United Nations officials call the world’s highest rate of the disease.   The... » read this article

WASHINGTON.—In an article published November 8, The New York Times recognizes that, "as the epidemic continues, the Cuban medical mission that played an important role in detecting its presence in Haiti, winning accolades from donors and diplomats for staying on the front lines and undertaking a broader effort to remake... » read this article

Statement by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on the resolution "The necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba." New York, October 25, 2011 Mr. President: ON November 13, 1991, this General Assembly made the decision of including in the program of... » read this article

Editor's Comment: In this rare appearance the world renown Children's Theater of Cuba, known as La Colmenita, is performing Abracadabra on this rare tour of the United States in October. Abracadabra is a play written by the children themselves. The name derives from the ancient Aramaic language and is used as an incantation... » read this article

Speech given by Mercedes López Acea, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party, during the central event marking the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism ARMY General Raúl Castro Ruz, Family members of the victims of state terrorism against Cuba, Family members of our Five Heroes, Compañeras... » read this article

SPEECH DELIVERED BY H.E. Mr. BRUNO RODRiGUEZ PARRILLA, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE GENERAL DEBATE OF THE SIXTY SIXTH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011. Mr. President: Allow me to congratulate you on your election. We welcome the... » read this article

If our Nobel Prize winner is deceiving himself – something that has yet to be established – that perhaps explains the incredible contradictions in his reasoning and the confusion sowed among his listeners. There is not a drop of morality, not even of politics, in his attempt to justify his... » read this article

(Taken from CubaDebate) I am halting the tasks which have been totally occupying my time recently to dedicate some words to the singular opportunity presented to political science by the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The annual event demands a singular effort on the part of those... » read this article

Cuba is about to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. If it finds what it is looking for, oil wealth could snatch Cuba out of the century-old grasp of the United States before Obama leaves the White House. This possibility has brought out Miami’s congressional assault team... » read this article

Recent events in the Middle East, characterized by popular revolts that occurred in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, with participation of the Special Services of the Western world in Libya and Syria, infiltrating provocateurs, weapons, means and money, much money, in each country, have encouraged the hopes of the planners of... » read this article

Editor's Note: Many of us remember when the US media portrayed Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev as a dangerous lunatic, threatening the entire world during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The same media hyped John F. Kennedy's heroism in forcing the Soviets to remove the missiles and stand down. They even made... » read this article

On my first day in Cuba, in 1967, I waited in a bus queue that was really a conga line. Ahead of me were two large, funny females resplendent in frills of blinding yellow; one of them had an especially long bongo under her arm. When the bus arrived, painted... » read this article

The most advanced political struggles in the world today are taking place in Latin America, specifically in Cuba and Venezuela where forces representing the working class have conquered state power, broken with imperialism and continue to consolidate their own revolutions and assist the leftward advance across the continent. Socialists should... » read this article

Cuba has seen a raft of reforms in recent months aimed at updating the island's stagnant Soviet economic model. But the ageing generation which led the revolution 50 years ago remains firmly in charge. And as President Raul Castro celebrates his 80th birthday on 3 June there is little sign... » read this article

President Obama and his advisers share with most of the mass media the same visual weakness when it comes to Cuba: they don’t see the obvious, the crucial facts and context that stare them in the face. As Cuba begins to undergo basic changes to its economy and governmental structure,... » read this article

As far as the United States and Europe are concerned, Africans have nothing to say about what happens in Africa. South African President Jacob Zuma made a second trip to Libya this week, on behalf of the African Union, seeking a diplomatic end to NATO’s war against Mouammar Gaddafi’s government.... » read this article

The U.S. government’s half-century campaign to discredit and destroy Cuba’s experiment with socialism has had many ruthless aspects, but perhaps none more so than efforts to disparage and damage the Caribbean island’s widely admired health-care system, as William Blum describes in this guest essay. June 4, 2011 In January, the government of... » read this article

Editor's Comment: For this revealing report on U.S. attitudes and actions against Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba we are especially grateful to author Kim Ives and grateful once again to Julian Assange and everyone at Wikileaks (including the whistleblowers). Kim Ive's informative report shows the petty and rabid attempts by Washington,... » read this article

A revolution can only be successful when the new generation takes over from the old. When thousands of students come together because of their dedication to helping others at a school that was built to allow them to fulfill their goals, the ground is fertile for students to continue the... » read this article