Help us keep OnCuba alive here In recent weeks, and in connection with the national economic crisis aggravated by the...

Help us keep OnCuba alive here In 1909, in Camagüey, a U.S. citizen refused to attend to a “colored” Cuban....

The events of the past week in the United States, beginning with the death of Afro-American George Floyd by police...

An old formula is known in Cuba: Goat milk and sweet potato! A humble recipe for food for the poor,...

It’s all too obvious that President Trump’s latest cavalry charges against the WHO and against China converge on the same...

When I first stood in a classroom of Chinese students, enrolled in my seminar on Comparative Socialist Transitions, I was...

The crisis associated with COVID-19 is linked to other pre-existing crises on global and national scales: economic, political, care, demographic...

Alina López Hernández (Matanzas, 1965) is a Doctor of Philosophical Sciences and a corresponding Member of the Academy of Cuban...

In February 1905 the statue of José Martí, which to this day presides over Havana’s Parque Central, was placed. A...

This pandemic has caused us to look again at the documents that, for more than 10 years now, have been...

My son runs into the room with an irrepressible emotion: Mom, it’s snowing! Come! Come! Snow in New York? In...

I remember a news item that caught my eye a few years ago. In the press there was talk of...

On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) got the first coronavirus alert from Wuhan, China. Since then we...

The forecasts for the world economy, whether they are the most moderate or cautious, or the most catastrophic, all make...

In “Elpidio Valdés se casa” (Elpidio Valdés gets married; Juan Padrón, Tulio Raggi and Mario Rivas, 1991) the mambí Colonel...

In recent years, Cuba has had to face a group of unforeseen events that could exceed anyone’s imagination. The unfortunate...

Virgilio Piñera would have been surprised to know that that verse of his “the damn circumstance of water everywhere” was...

With COVID-19, the world is facing two interconnected but not identical realities: it exhibits and sharpens pre-existing inequalities and generates...

The Cuban economy was already showing a bleak picture before the start of the current epidemic. Productive activity had been...

The financial situation Cuba has been experiencing is already a structural problem of its economy. There are multiple factors that...

The good sense of man had not been tested, at least globally, since World War II. The coronavirus came to...

Caregiving. That is the most recurrent word in these days of COVID-19. The whole world is saying the same thing...

Humanity will emerge from this pandemic. Previously, pandemics also occurred and humanity survived. It is true that in all of...

I’m not a biologist. I’m not an epidemiologist. Neither am I a hysteric or a media terrorist. I’m a Cuban...

In 2016 the magazine Revolución y Cultura (RyC)  ―then directed by Luisa Campuzano and by an Advisory Council composed of...