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Cuba’s free healthcare
In Cuba, public health care is free and universal. Cuba also has medics who travel abroad on international missions. This service brought to the Cuban Treasury more than $8.2 billion in…
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David Rivera’s in trouble again; Feds to the rescue
The FEC is seeking $486,000 in civil penalties against David Rivera. The FEC’s civil case is the latest indication that Miami federal prosecutors don’t intend to criminally charge…
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For Trump, the week the bottom fell out
The good news is that six months after Trump’s inauguration and the consolidation of a seamless Republican right-wing regime in Washington, the bottom seems to be finally falling out.…
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The Cuban economy in the first half of 2017
Reports from the first-semester meeting of the National Assembly of the People's Power say that the Gross National Product rose by 1.1 percent in the first semester. Coincidentally,…
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Brazil’s future always hinges on Lula
The Brazilian right spawned the coup against the regional governments of the Workers' Party but now doesn't know what to do with its own government. The left produced Lula and the right…
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Raúl rebukes Trump but restates willingness to cooperate on equal basis
President Raúl Castro addressed the National Assembly this week stressing that the announcements made by President Donald Trump last June 16 in Miami signify a step back in bilateral…
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U.S. chargé leaves Cuba in ‘normal rotation,’ is replaced by his deputy
U.S. Chargé d'Affairs Jeffrey de Laurentis has left Cuba and been replaced by another career diplomat, Scott Hamilton, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Havana confirmed this past…
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Guess who’s coming back to Iowa
Bernie Sanders is doing everything a potential candidate would be doing. Make no mistake about it: Bernie, as his supporters lovingly call him, is the front-runner for president in…
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Debate is a good practice
To debate aspects of the Cuban reality is extremely important these days, but it would be healthier if this encounter of different postures were broader and if these opinions were…
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Republican health care “reform” sinks like a stone
The latest poll, by USA Today and Suffolk University, found only 12 percent of Americans support the Republican health care bill. This confirms what other recent polls have shown: the…
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