Cuba approved a Law on Personal Data Protection

Giving our Identity Card number, address, email, photo or any other personal information is becoming more and more common for citizens; although the relevance of such personal information is often only considered when it falls into the hands of unscrupulous individuals.

"They want to hold back this country; but we are not and we are not going to be. Our alternative is clear and will never be surrender," said Díaz-Canel. Photo: Juvenal Balán

Speech delivered by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at the closing of the Ninth Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of the People's Power in its Ninth Legislature, at the Havana Convention Center, on July 22, 2022, "Year 64 of the Revolution".

Shanghai Bund, Nanjing

You can't miss the Bund in Shanghai!", was the first suggestion of the veterans in China when my mandatory quarantine as an outsider ended. So, at high noon, a few of us ventured out to walk under the inclement June sun along this promenade stretching 1.6 kilometers along the west bank of the Huangpu River, crisscrossed all the time by medium-sized ships and barges laden with aggregates. Its location is on all the maps and, even inside the city, the traffic signs of its avenues indicate over and over again how to find it.

Portrait by Roberto FabeloThe story goes that on that fateful day, May 19, 1895, Martí held no other objective than that of independence, expressing the beautiful premonition of his sacrifice for Cuba, written with great lyricism, writing: “My verse will grow under the grass and I will also grow.”

Statement by the Ministry of Foreign AffairsToday, the government of the United States announced several measures regarding Cuba, which are positive but of minimal scope, associated with the granting of visas, regular migration, flights to Cuban provinces, remittances, and adjustments to the regulations governing transactions with the non-state sector.