[2] Its name comes from the yacht Granma that carried Fidel Castro and 81 other rebels to Cuba's shores in 1956, launching the Cuban Revolution.

[citation needed] Several weekly international editions, available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Portuguese, are also distributed abroad.

[5] Also, news stories from Granma are often carried later in the Spanish-language sections of periodicals with a similar political base,[citation needed] such as People's Weekly World.

[5] Granma regularly features:[citation needed] The Newspaper has tended to focus on events occurring in and around Havana.

It was first included in the newspaper on March 14, 2008, soon after Raúl Castro's speech stating that the Cuban Communist Party is open to criticism.

The letters in this section can involve multiple topics, including complaints and suggestions for the newspaper or the Cuban Communist Party.

Like Cartas a la Dirección, A vuelta de correo included questions from the Cuban public that brought attention to various issues, as well as occasional responses by the government.