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  • Artwork El eco del llanto (1937) Photo: David Alfaro Siqueiros

    Our full support for the Anti-Fascist International

    Originally published: Granma English on September 18, 2024 by Redacción Cultural (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Sep 21, 2024)

    A constant in two centuries of U.S. interference in the region is the obsession to destroy any sovereign or moderately progressive project.

  • The reasons why Peruvians are protesting are not new, they come from years ago, but have reawakened with the latest events. Photo: El País

    The mobilizations in Peru are the result of pent-up indignation

    Originally published: Granma English on April 14, 2023 by Nuria Barbosa León (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2023)

    Although the trigger for the protests has been the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo, the grievances are rooted in historical problems.

  • Unsustainable debt wears down developing countries' ability to reduce poverty. Photo: AFP

    A “lost decade” for developing countries?

    Originally published: Granma English on September 1, 2022 by Daniela Leyva Fernánde (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Sep 09, 2022)

    Developed countries use 3.5% of their income to pay interest on their debt, while developing ones must use 14%, which complicates their situation.

  • Assange has been confined in the United Kingdom for more than ten years now. Photo: El País

    The hypocrisy of the Assange case

    Originally published: Granma English on August 5, 2022 by Milagros Pichardo Pérez (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Aug 08, 2022)

    One count of conspiring to receive national defense information, seven counts of obtaining that information, nine counts of disclosing it, and one count of conspiring to access a computer.

  • Cimavax-EGF

    Cuban vaccine against lung cancer makes its way in the United States

    Originally published: Granma English by Granma English (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2022)

    Cimavax-EGF, a Cuban therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, conquers the scientific community and the population of the United States based on the achievements compiled in studies carried out.

  • Díaz-Canel assured that between the Cuban and United States peoples there is a relationship of respect, friendship and fraternity. Photo: Estudio Revolución

    Conversation to build bridges of affection

    Originally published: Granma English on August 1, 2022 by Alina Perera Robbio (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2022)

    “Thanks for the meeting, for the time, and for building bridges,” said the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in a meeting in the afternoon of July 12 with a group of students from New York University’s The New School, who are attending a summer course sponsored by Casa de las Américas.

  • Díaz-Canel expressed that a creative offensive is necessary in the face of imperial aggressiveness. Photo: Ariel Cecilio Lemus

    Cuban culture is a militant of life, not at the side of the people but within them

    Originally published: Granma English on July 20, 2022 by Granma English (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2022)

    We come to this National Council three years after the Congress and two of them in pandemic, without pause in the follow-up to the agreements of that long, deep and critical meeting that opened the way to some solutions and a thousand more challenges.

  • Abdala, with three doses, demonstrates 92.28% efficacy

    Abdala, with three doses, demonstrates 92.28% efficacy

    Originally published: Granma English on June 22, 2021 by Leticia Martínez and René Tamayo León (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2022)

    Communist Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on behalf of Cuba, congratulates researchers who in 13 months achieved a global milestone.

  • There is no single type of woman or Cuban woman. We are millions of dissimilar beings, each one deserving of all rights. Photo: Ariel Cecilio Lemus

    She, we… on the road to equality

    Originally published: Granma English on March 8, 2022 by Yeilén Delgado Calvo (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2022)

    In Cuba, we are fortunate to be part of a social project in which women have been protagonists and beneficiaries of the transformations achieved.

  • “Cuba advocates a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all”

    “Cuba advocates a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all”

    Originally published: Granma English on February 28, 2022 by Cubaminex (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Mar 03, 2022)

    Statement from Cuba’s Revolutionary Government

  • Freedom for the five Cuban Political Prisoners

    Political prisoners in Cuba?

    Originally published: Granma English on February 16, 2022 by Michel E. Torres Corona (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2022)

    Can those prosecuted for acts of violence and recklessly endangering the public order, with no program, no proposals for positive change, be considered political prisoners?

  • Photo: Finlay Vaccine Institute Photo: Granma Archives

    What Cuba can give the peoples, and has given, is its example

    Originally published: Granma English on February 4, 2022 by Pedro Ríoseco (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Feb 09, 2022)

    On February 4, 1962, in José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, the Second Declaration of Havana was ratified by popular acclaim, an emphatic response to the aggression, sabotage and crimes against our country, financed by the United States.

  • Photo: Granma

    Replacing imports to guarantee greater biotechnological sovereignty in the production of medicine

    Originally published: Granma English on January 26, 2022 by Laura Mercedes Giráldez (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Jan 31, 2022)

    Interview with president of Cuba’s leading pharmaceutical enterprise group, BioCubaFarma, working to strengthen the country’s technological sovereignty and contribute to the population’s quality of life.

  • Sensory assault, sleep deprivation, isolation, stress positioning, submersion in ice water are just some of the torture methods used at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo

    There is one place in Cuba where torture occurs

    Originally published: Granma English on November 8, 2021 by Raúl Antonio Capote (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Nov 19, 2021)

    Chilling testimony of the torture and abuses committed against Majid Khan, at the illegal U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, was recently presented by the prisoner.

  • Photo: MINREX

    Washington’s accusation in its report that Cuba engages in people trafficking is a lie

    Originally published: Granma English on July 5, 2021 by Minrex (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2021)

    Declaration by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

  • José Manuel Correa

    A message of love and life from Cuba to Mexico

    Originally published: Granma English on March 30, 2021 by Liz Conde Sánchez (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2021)

    President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez notes the impressive work of the third group of medical professionals from the Henry Reeve Contingent returning from Mexico, after joining the COVID-19 battle there.

  • Social Media

    Trigger words and the duty of revolutionaries in the Internet era

    Originally published: Granma English on March 9, 2021 by Iroel Sánchez (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Mar 17, 2021)

    Anti-communist propaganda based on manipulating terms like “democracy,” “human rights” and “freedom” has expanded its repertory with certain expressions about Cuba based on a fabricated image, which are strewn across on the Internet as common knowledge

  • Photo: Ismael Batista

    We are Cuba Viva, the country that insists on resisting and emerging victorious

    Originally published: Granma English on January 22, 2021 (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Feb 02, 2021)

    During 2019 and 2020 Cuba suffered the greatest impact ever from the blockade, with losses estimated at more than 5 billion dollars.

  • The chants of “Down with imperialism! We need another world,” at the Trillo Park rally, make more sense now than ever. Photo: Juvenal Balán

    A sense of the political

    Originally published: Granma English on December 30, 2020 by Karima Oliva Bello (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Jan 05, 2021)

    How can we spread the idea that politics is not the exclusive field of social actors who formally hold a given position? Politics, as the Revolution has shown since its first days, is the everyday arena in which we clarify everything that makes sense in our lives.

  • Fidel Castro

    The voracious reader

    Originally published: Granma English on December 2, 2020 by Pedro de la Hoz (more by Granma English)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2020)

    “We do not tell the people: believe. We say: read,” a statement not made casually, but rather a public expression of a deep conviction, spoken by Fidel in 1961.

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    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

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    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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