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July 27, 2020

Scientific approach to opening of ‘New World’

Reproduction of a painting of Genoa, Italy, in 1597, by Cristoforo Grassi. Genoa was a key European port at the time of Columbus’ voyages. Opening of Americas paved the way for the rapid development of capitalism in Holland and England, while holding it back in Spain.

…“extended human culture into a dimension unknown until that moment.” The clash between the indigenous societies of the Americas and the social system that was beginning to emerge in Europe…


January 27, 2020

‘Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle Against Ebola in West Africa’

New book is a ‘remarkable account of the solidarity and internationalism at the heart of the Cuban Revolution’
Cuban medical volunteers unload supplies on arrival in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Oct. 2014.

…caring for thousands of desperately ill human beings and their families and communities traumatized by the killer disease. For the Cuban people and their communist leadership, such a response was…




February 4, 2019

José Ramón Fernández: Revolutionary of exemplary integrity

Fernández held himself to highest standards of revolutionary selflessness, human solidarity, proletarian discipline
José Ramón Fernández, center, during April 1961 battles at Bay of Pigs where he was field commander of main column of revolutionary forces that defeated U.S.-organized invasion. Discipline of revolutionary army “must be very just, very humane, with highest moral standards,” Fernández said.

…with Fernández on three Pathfinder books. BY MARY-ALICE WATERS In the presence of José Ramón Fernández, you quickly sensed you were with a human being of exceptional integrity. His posture…




November 19, 2018

UN votes 189-2 to demand end to US rulers’ Cuba embargo

human rights for the Cuban people.” In response, Cuban Foreign Minister Rodríguez said, “The blockade represents flagrant, massive and systematic violations of the human rights of Cuban women and men.”…