Special Cuba Excellencies magazine is celebrating its tenth issue. It’s been a thorny, yet pleasant path because we’ve been overwhelmingly gratified by readers and customers who have found in our pages the respectful and multiple approach to Cuba’s reality, especially its culture, history, economy, tourism development and society, let alone the close ties that link the island nation with the rest of the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and Europe.

It’s therefore a happy coincidence that our tenth issue is happening along the 14th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Havana, an event that will gather Heads of State and representatives from nearly all the planet, bounded together in the common goal of making the South a better world.

That’s also the ideal that today drives Latin American and Caribbean countries and makes them march behind the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (known as ALBA), a project that calls for literacy campaigns, good healthcare services, culture and economic cooperation in a bid to put benefits in the hands of the poor and, therefore contribute to the development of those peoples.

Our magazine, fully aware of the new realities in the Americas, wants to address some of those projects in this new issue. And the reason to do so is plain and simple: we’re sensitive people and we’re committed to everything good and noble that’s taking place on this side of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean.

Jose Carlos de Santiago