In a measure of its ambitious efforts to be vaccine self-reliant, Cuba has named one of its homegrown jabs Abdala, after a famous dramatic verse by independence hero and national icon Jose Marti. In the verse, the young hero, Abdala, heads to war to defend his fatherland, full of patriotic fervor no matter how strong […]
By David Jessop Just over a week ago, Argentina’s Health Minister, Carla Vizzotti, and her Cuban counterpart, Dr José Angel Portal, signed a letter of intent that may lead to the joint production in Argentina of some of the vaccines Cuba has developed against COVID-19. The collaboration will be, the letter says, for ‘the immunisation […]
Cuba announced last Tuesday that its citizens will be offered full internet access for mobile phones beginning this week, becoming one of the last nations to offer such service. Mayra Arevich, president of the Cuban state telecom monopoly ETECSA, went on national television to say Cubans can begin contracting 3G service for the first time […]
HAVANA, Cuba — The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, has reiterated his country’s interest in strengthening cooperation with the countries of the European Union in areas such as trade, energy, transport, tourism, iron and steel industry, mining, health, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. During a recent speech at the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council Meeting, the Cuban […]
HAVANA – The ruling Cuban Communist Party on Monday elected President Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace Raul Castro as party chief. The succession marks the end of six decades of rule by brothers Fidel and Raul Castro, who led a 1959 revolution in the Caribbean island nation of 11 million.. The election of Diaz-Carnel, 60, came […]
By David Jessop In the dying days of the Trump Presidency, the US State Department designated Cuba a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’. Regrettably, the measure will slow efforts by the Biden administration to take a calibrated approach to gradually improving US-Cuba relations. The decision to do so was made by the outgoing US Secretary of […]
HAVANA — The Cuban government said on Thursday that the island has lost nearly $5.6 billion in one year as a result of economic sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez decried what he said was a growing number of sanctions suffocating the island, a topic that is on […]
HAVANA – Cuba rolled out the red carpet last week for the first planeload of tourists to arrive on the island in months as it struggles toward a post-pandemic “new normalcy.” The import-dependent country has been plunged into crisis and scarcity by tough U.S. sanctions and the COVID-19 outbreak. The arrival was seen as a […]
In Cuba, the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) announced that the country has started the first phase of human trials of the COVID-19 vaccine called “Soberana 01.” During the first stage of this phase, scientists will adjust technical details before they begin recruiting 676 individuals who will be part of the trial. Authorities stressed that those […]
GENEVA – United Nations human rights experts have called on the United States to urgently lift its long-standing trade and economic embargo against Cuba or risk many lives being lost to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The human rights experts emphasised that the more than six-decades-old sanctions are impeding the supply of medicine, medical equipment, food […]
