More than 600 delegates in Cuba鈥檚 National Assembly of People鈥檚 Power, the country鈥檚 highest decision-making body, approved the draft of a new Constitution on July 22. It came after two days of debate in which more than 100 delegates participated, writes Helen Yaffe.
Cuba
What is to be done about high temperatures, rising sea levels and increasingly powerful hurricanes? What can we do to be less vulnerable to climate change? Yisell Rodr铆guez Mil谩n and Danae Gonz谩lez Del Toro take a look at how socialist Cuba is addressing climate change.
Cuba鈥檚 鈥淧roject Life鈥 action plan outlines eleven projects to help the island nation adapt to climate change.
Hundreds of popular organisations and social movements from across Latin America and the Caribbean met at the Summit of the Peoples in Lima, Peru, over April 10-14.
What鈥檚 the fate of Cuba in the age of Trump? It is not an easy question to unravel, but Canadian author and journalist Arnold August provides some answers in his latest book, Cuba-US Relations: Obama and Beyond.
Although the media spends a lot of time portraying Cuba as a 鈥渄ictatorship鈥, it has barely covered the fact that Cubans have once again begun a process of electing officials, starting from the local and going all the way up to the national parliament.
Cuba has rejected outright new US restrictions that took effect on November 8, describing them as confirming an "upsurge"聽of the blockade imposed by Washington since 1962.
Cuba's top diplomat for the Americas, Josefina Vidal, said during a press conference on November 7 that the new measures to prevent US trade with and travel to the Caribbean island were "arbitrary."
October 9 marks the 50th anniversary of the CIA-ordered assassination of Che Guevara.
In light of a recent upsurge in denunciations of Che and the Cuban Revolution, it is important to separate fact from fiction.
Mudslides in Freetown, Sierra Leone聽 on August 14, mostly inhabitants of the urban slums in the hills above the capital.
Cuban brigades and volunteers are continuing the arduous task of rebuilding after the damaging and deadly effects of Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region that left dozens dead and caused widespread damage.
Described by meteorologists as one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the Caribbean in a century, Irma left a path of widespread destruction in Cuba and several north-eastern Caribbean Islands, especially Barbuda.
As Barbuda, part of the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and聽, reels from having almost the entirety of its infrastructure and 95% of its homes destroyed due to Hurricane Irma, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)聽has rejected a moratorium proposal to discuss the island's US$3 million dollar debt.
Bolivian聽President Evo Morales has rejected the United States聽economic blockade imposed on Cuba, as well as President Donald Trump鈥檚 decision to backtrack on the normalisation of diplomatic relations with Havana.
In a public letter sent to his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, Morales repeated his nation鈥檚 鈥渦nconditional support and solidarity鈥 with the Cuban Revolution and the 鈥渕ost heroic people of the continent鈥.
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