What are the consequences for Cuba of being included in the list of State sponsors of terrorism?
By: Andy Jorge Blanco
June 17, 2021 Cubadebate.
In 1984, Cuba alerted the United States authorities about an assassination attempt on the then president of that country, Ronald Reagan. And an attack was prevented from taking place. They say that Reagan thanked him, but two years earlier, the US president himself had included the island in the List of States Sponsoring Terrorism, for the first time since its creation in 1979. Havana alerted Washington about a terrorist act, but continued being on the black list for 33 years and four presidents.
Banking spell against the dollar
By: Ariel Terrero
June 15, 2021 | cubadebate
Doubts, concerns, speculations, memes and comments of all kinds have been unleashed, when the Government of Cuba temporarily suspends the receipt of cash dollars in the country's banks. There was no lack of a sensible European media outlet that reasoned that Cuba is trying to pressure the United States. Another joke? Certainly, we are witnessing a fierce economic skirmish at times, but the maneuvers of the Cuban side, with a forced defensive nuance, show an increasingly compromised situation. It is a fact.
Che: "The most extraordinary of our companions"
By: Yurina Piñeiro Jiménez
June 14th , 2021 Cubadebate
Che and Fidel. Photo: Perfecto Romero / Bohemia.
Fidel, a man attentive to the great events of history, but also to the simplest details of everyday life, expressed admiration for many people: heroes, martyrs, intellectuals, workers, peasants, housewives, children ... But one in particular he won their respect and approval; Che.
Aware of his actions and words as he was, he was not afraid to make public his appreciation for him, even before the Argentine comrade was assassinated on October 9, 1967. He accepted him among the Granma expeditionaries, he was the first to be promoted to Commander in the Sierra, he entrusted him with very important missions in the military, economic and political order of the nascent Revolution.
Cuba in Maceo's vocation of resistance
Author: Eduardo Palomares Calderón | internet@granma.cu
June 13, 2021 10:06:47 PM
The equestrian statue of Antonio Maceo in the Plaza de la Revolución in Santiago de Cuba, a work by Lescay. Photo:
From a lion and a lioness came that June 14, 176 years ago in Santiago de Cuba, the Titan that from East to West would trace, in front of the Spanish colonial yoke, a trail of value, dignity and patriotism, which has illuminated this Island ever since irredeemable before the world.
Half a million Cubans already fully vaccinated and Cuba above the world population average with one dose
By: Randy Alonso Falcón
June 14, 2021 Cubadebate
The total number of Cubans who have already received at least one dose of our vaccine candidates against COVID-19 is, at the end of June 11, 2021, 1,930,901 people, according to the official MINSAP report.