Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

Havana Syndrome, the U.S.’s monumental hoax

January 26, 2022 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

Jan. 23 — Last week, the United States decided to recognize for the first time in five years that the phenomenon baptized as “Havana Syndrome” is nothing more than a big farce. On Thursday, the U.S. […]

Honduras said enough and opened its doors to new hope

December 2, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

Honduras went to the polls last Sunday amid a process of historic importance. People flocked to the polling stations, despite political violence and fears induced by the narco regime of outgoing President Juan Orlando Hernández […]

Cuba: Nothing will tarnish our celebration

November 13, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

Havana — Cuba is getting ready to make a transition toward normalcy after more than one year of struggle against the pandemic. On Monday, thousands of children from first to fifth grade will return to […]

Cuba and China strengthen ties through the Belt and Road strategy

October 29, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

Cuba it should be remembered was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with China back in 1960. Sixty-one years after that union, both nations continue to collaborate with each other in the […]

Haiti and the visible pain of racism

October 2, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

I have fresh in my mind those images of those guards on horseback chasing Haitians with whips at the southern border of the United States just like in the days of slavery. The pictures taken on […]

Cuba rejects Biden’s cynicism at the U.N.

September 24, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

U.S. President Joe Biden did it again. This Tuesday, he took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to label Cuba and other progressive nations as authoritarian and inconsequential to the needs of their […]

Cuba boosts its immunization campaign with the support of Chinese vaccines

September 3, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

The last Sundays of August are usually days of joy in Cuba due to the contagious excitement of children returning to school and the hustle and bustle of parents to get uniforms, backpacks, notebooks, and […]

Cuba keeps achieving the impossible thanks to Fidel’s legacy

August 13, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

In 1969, Cuba achieved the impossible: the manufacture of the first micro-computer prototype on record in the Third World, the CID-201. That device, which did 25,000 sums per second and had a capacity of 4 […]

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Is Peru on the verge of a coup?

July 4, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

One month after holding the run-off election, Peru still has no President-elect. The winning candidate, leftist Pedro Castillo, hasn’t assumed the country’s leadership yet because the Peruvian right-wing insists that widespread election fraud has taken […]

Solidarity saves lives: The world is mobilizing to send syringes to Cuba

May 22, 2021 Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

In March, social organizations, political leaders, and solidarity movements launched a fundraising campaign to send syringes to Cuba. The world wants to support the vaccination process of this small nation, which has done so much […]