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Month: August 2021

Following widespread anti-government protests in July

Cuban doctors voice rare criticism of government’s Covid-19 handling

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Following widespread anti-government protests last month, the Cuban government is now receiving unprecedented criticism from health care workers who say officials botched the island’s response to the pandemic. Symbols of the socialist health care system pioneered by Fidel Castro, doctors and nurses are usually praised as “heroes in white coats” by

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Then-Vice President Joe Biden was right when he urged then-President Barack Obama to withdraw troops from Afghanistan

Former Joint Chiefs chair on Afghanistan: ‘I thought we could turn it around, obviously, I was wrong’

By Nicky Robertson Then-Vice President Joe Biden was right when he urged then-President Barack Obama to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said Sunday, adding that the US could have left Afghanistan earlier. “I thought we could turn it around, obviously, I was wrong,” Mullen,

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