CUBA: Food Security Focus of New UN Programmes
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Oct 29 (IPS) – Three new international cooperation agreements channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country.
”Thanks to the joint work of the international community, the United Nations [...]
POLITICS: U.S. Blasted for Sustaining Embargo on Cuba
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 (IPS) – The administration of President Barack Obama, which has vowed to improve relations with sanctions-hit Cuba, refused to break away from the traditional stand taken by successive U.S. governments and voted against a U.N. resolution calling for an end to the 47-year-old [...]
CUBA: Following the Trail of a Woman Who Lived as a Man
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Dalia Acosta
HAVANA, Aug 4 (IPS) – When Cuban historian and anthropologist Julio César González and his Spanish friend Alberto Góngora Sanz arrived at the birthplace of Swiss physician Enriqueta Favez, in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, their joy at finally reaching their destination was so [...]
