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Cuban scientists are racing to save the critically endangered Cuban crocodile — the world’s rarest.
BA baby Cuban crocodile. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
About 90% of the species has disappeared in less than a century.
The small to mid-sized Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) is an endemic (...)
Will the November 15 protests in Cuba provide a democratic opening?
The demonstrations of July 11 were the first great autonomous and democratic movement of Black and poor Cubans since 1959. The demonstrators did not chant any of the slogans of the U.S.-based Cuban Right.
While it is true (...)
ANYONE WHO BELIEVED that in the arena of imperialist foreign policy at least, the Biden administration would be an improvement on the rampages of Trump, has come in for some rude awakenings. Biden’s no better and in some ways worse.
Far from easing the additional sanctions that Trump’s gang (...)
A lack of medical supplies is crippling the Covid response, amid an economic crisis sparked by the pandemic and US sanctions.
Julia, a community doctor in Havana, was drafted to the intensive care unit soon after Covid-19 first reached Cuba.
Last week, her cousin died from the virus. This (...)
The situation created in Cuba following the events of July 11th raises questions on a number of levels for those of us fighting for a society free from class exploitation and all forms of oppression – for those who aspire to build what Marx called the “true realm of freedom” with free and equal (...)
The street demonstrations that broke out all over Cuba on July 11 are an unprecedented event in the more than 60 years since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. But why now? This essay explores the historic, economic and political factors that help to clarify the causes of Cuba’s July 11, (...)
President Biden has not only kept all of Trump’s sanctions designed to severely harm the Cuban people, he has added two more.
His response to the July 11 protests in Cuba was to call for the overthrow of the socialist Cuban Revolution.
The July 11 protests of the Cuban government were wildly (...)
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- End the imperialist economic blockade of Cuba now! For a free and sovereign Cuba Down with imperialist interference in Cuba! For socialist democracy in Cuba!
On July 11 we witnessed protests driven by the tremendous shortages that Cuba has been (...)
For years, indeed decades, we have denounced the blockade imposed by the US authorities against Cuba. We have denounced and continue to denounce the various policies and measures adopted by Washington since 1959-1960 to isolate, destabilise and attack Cuba. We are anti-imperialists and (...)
Yesterday, July 11, 2021, Cubans in several cities took to the streets to protest lack of health care, lack of food, and to demand freedom. Where should socialists stand on these protests and the Cuban government?
First, international socialists like myself, in a variety of organizations or (...)
In this afternoon’s demonstrations in Havana, Frank García Hernández was arrested, among other members of the Cuban left.
This afternoon the Cuban people took to the streets. A people who were not called by any organization other than the acute economic crisis facing Cuba and the government’s (...)
This is a translation of an article that appeared on December 28, 2020 in La Joven Cuba, a left-wing critical blog, one of the most important in Cuba. The article immediately created a stir in social media. The Cuban government has so far failed to entirely control the Internet, which remains (...)
Introduction
Last month The Bullet published a report on Cuba’s remarkable success in meeting the threat of COVID-19, “Cuba in the Last Stretch of the Pandemic.” At the time there was good reason to accept Fernando Ravsberg’s assessment that Cuba had successfully met the challenge, that the worst (...)
The following article by Fernando Ravsberg appeared in the Salvadorian digital daily news site ContraPunto on June 24 . The translation from the Spanish, which includes a few explanatory additions, is by The Bullet.
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Introduction
It is worth mentioning some of the significant (...)
With access to education (public and free from kindergarten to university), health is one of the great conquests of the Cuban Revolution, which, despite the difficulties, mistakes and setbacks, is still in place.
To get an idea of the strength of the Cuban health system, it is enough to (...)
On 1 January 2021, the reform of the Cuban monetary system came into effect. It marks the end of the dual currency system and is part of a process of liberalization of the economy that began ten years ago, with the opening up of several sectors to private capital. These measures were inevitably (...)
The Evangelical church has gained a huge amount of political power in Cuba, and LGBTQ people are dealing with the consequences.
Earlier this year, Cuban psychologist Dachelys Valdés Moreno and her American-born wife, Hope, welcomed their baby boy into the world. Although they live in Havana, (...)
LGBT marches cancelled in Cuba due to ‘new tensions’
Organisers of marches for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia in Cuba have announced that they have been cancelled due to “new tensions.”
The Cuban National Center for Sex Education announced yesterday (May 6) (...)
National assembly signs off on document defining marriage as ‘consensual union of two people, regardless of gender’
Cuba is set to become the latest country in Latin America to approve gay marriage, after the National Assembly on Sunday signed off on a new constitution that defines marriage as (...)
Trump’s stance on Cuba will do untold harm to the Cuban people and only strengthen anti-democratic forces on the island.
On June 16, at the Manuel Artime Theater — named after a leader of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion — in Miami’s Little Havana, President Trump announced the partial repeal of the (...)
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