Salvador Allende: His Example Lives On

(Translated by ESTI) HE was born one hundred years ago in Valparaiso, in southern Chile, on June 26, 1908. His father, a middle-class lawyer and notary, was a member of Chile’s Radical Party. When I was born, Allende was already 18 years old. He was pursuing secondary studies in high school in his native city. [...]

The Elephant and the Ant

It would seem there’s no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the Round Table program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote. During this program, an introduction was also read written at [...]

Cuba registers therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer

BY IRIS ARMAS PADRINO THE first therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of advanced lung cancer has been registered in Cuba, the only one for this type of malignancy world-wide, reported the national news agency, AIN. Named CIMAVAX EGF, the antigen has been shown to be effective, extending patients’ survival and quality of life, said the [...]

Amistad Denounces the Atlanta 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision on the Cuban Five

Philippines-Cuba Friendship association (AMISTAD) STATEMENT The Philippines-Cuba Friendship Association or AMISTAD and its Free the Cuban 5 Committee extend heartfelt solidarity to the Cuban 5 unjustly jailed by imperialist US in the various US prisons for almost 10 years now. The Cuban 5 were in fact gathering information on the U.S.-based Cuban exile groups planning [...]

The United States, Europe and Human Rights

(Translated by ESTI) The discredited way in which the European Union suspended its sanctions on Cuba on June 19 has been reported in 16 international press dispatches. It has absolutely no economic effect on our country. On the contrary, the United States’ extraterritorial laws and, thus, its economic and financial blockade are still fully in [...]