Author: Rosa Miriam Elizalde

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The U.S. has an unhealthy obsession with Cuba

November 1, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The piggy bank was rattled again. In September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $6,669,000 in grants for projects aimed at “regime change” in Cuba, a euphemism to avoid saying “direct intervention by […]
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Estados Unidos tiene una obsesión malsana con Cuba

November 1, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
La alcancía volvió a sonar. Hace menos de un mes, en septiembre de 2021, la Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) otorgó 6.669.000 dólares en subvenciones para proyectos destinados a un “cambio […]
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The money that never arrives in Cuba

September 4, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
With the money she earns cleaning houses in the morning and an office at night, Virgen Elena Pupo, a 47-year-old Cuban migrant, has managed to raise her family in Washington, D.C., but has not been […]
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Las remesas que no llegan

September 4, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Con el dinero que gana limpiando casas en la mañana y una oficina en la noche, Virgen Elena Pupo, migrante cubana de 47 años, ha logrado sacar adelante a su familia en Washington DC, pero […]
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The good people who will give internet to Cuba

August 7, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
GitHub, the largest free software platform in the world, has published an incomplete list of 60 computer programs, sites and services restricted for Cuba by the unreasonable U.S. blockade, which according to Senator Marco Rubio […]
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The world says no to the blockade of Cuba

June 25, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Cuba won another diplomatic victory in the General Assembly of the United Nations June 23 against the government of the United States. The majority of countries (184) voted in favor of the resolution which calls […]
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The attack that never happened: Cuba and the U.S. fantasy of sonic attacks

March 7, 2021 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
They called it “sonic attacks,” “health incidents,” and “Havana syndrome.” In September 2017, the United States government decided to withdraw all nonessential personnel and their families from their country’s embassy in Cuba. This decision was based on […]
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Cuba Saves

March 19, 2020 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The cruise ship MS Braemar, with five confirmed cases of Covid-19 and a thousand people on board, docked shortly before dawn this Wednesday in the Port of Mariel, 40 kilometers from Havana. The airport evacuation […]