Coronavirus infections are increasing across much of Central America and on smaller Caribbean islands, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday, as it repeated a call for more vaccine donations to help hard-hit nations.

In this article René González, one of the Cuban Five Heroes reflects upon his time undercover in the 90s protecting his people and draws parallels between the Special Period in the mid-1990s and the ‘Brothers to the Rescue’ group, and the current imperialist aggressions against Cuba using ‘humanitarianism’ as a hypocritical smokescreen for further, intensified oppression. 

"We are here because the streets belong to Fidel, because the streets of Cuba belong to revolutionaries." This was the phrase we heard the loudest walking along several Havana avenues Sunday afternoon, July 11, when an entire people came out to defend their Revolution.