Tag Archive: Latin America

Hasta siempre Comandante

December 10, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts

While some of the mainstream media are unsuccessfully seeking to tarnish Castro's image, thousands upon thousands of messages are pouring into Cuba from literally all over the world to pay homage to him

Literacy Skills: A Basic Human Right

April 20, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts

Shirley Langer, author of 'Anita's revolution', lived and worked in Cuba for almost five years in the mid 1960s. She describes how, after the revolution, Cubans managed to eradicate illiteracy in a matter of months.

The choice to be British

March 15, 2013 6:42 am Leave your thoughts

Congratulations to the British Falkland Islanders, including the large Saint Helenian community there, some of whom are my relatives on my mother's side, writes David Lindsay after a referendum that was controversial in some parts of the world.