Between emigration and crime

Taken from CubaDebate   LATIN Americans are not innate criminals and neither did they invent drugs. The Aztecs, Mayas and other pre-Columbian peoples of Mexico and Central America, for example, were excellent agriculturalists and knew nothing about coca cultivation.

The disasters threatening the world

IF the speed of light didn’t exist, if the closest star to our sun weren’t four light years away from Earth, the only inhabited planet in our solar system, if UFOs truly existed, imaginary visitors to the planet would continue their journey without understanding much of anything about our long-suffering human race.

NATO, war, lies and business

AS some people know, in September of 1969, Muammar al-Gaddafi, a Bedouin Arab soldier of unusual character and inspired by the ideas of the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, promoted within the heart of the Armed Forces a movement which overthrew King Idris I of Libya, almost a desert country in its totality, with a [...]

TWO EARTHQUAKES

A strong 8.9 on the scale earthquake shook Japan today.  The most worrying is that early news reports were talking about thousands dead and missing, figures really unheard of in a developed country where all constructions are quake-proof.  They were even talking about a nuclear reactor that was out of control.  Hours later, it was [...]

We have to begin saving humanity now

• Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro’s introductory text to the discussion with intellectuals on February 15, 2011 at the International Conference Center I knew that various eminent intellectuals and sincere friends of Cuba were visiting our capital to take part in the 20th International Book Fair.