The debate took place a few days ago on a television program, and although it was brief, it reveals the dissatisfactions that exist among specialists regarding the performance of Cuban baseball players in the international events of recent years.
The Blue and White National Unity movement and the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy maintain their call for a citizen protest on Saturday, September 21. The demonstrators will demand the restoration of constitutional rights in Nicaragua, despite the stepped-up police siege and a counter march announced from the government ranks.
Gonzalo Koncke, Chief of Staff of Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), stated early in the week that the Nicaraguan government’s decision to deny entry to the OAS High Level Commission is a poor decision for democracy and justice in the country.
Miramar Church, Havana, Cuba. By Renwin Jacob (Trinidad and Tobago). Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Today’s featured artist is Chico O’Farrill and His Latin Orchestra from Cuba with the song “Cuban Blues” from the album “Music from South America” (1956).
Cuban small businesses that emerged in the wake of timid economic reforms have been hard hit by US sanctions, informed an independent consulting company.
Cuba will employ thousands more oxen to plough sugar cane fields and pull farmers' carts due to lack of fuel for ploughing machines and transport vehicles. The strange thing is that such measures reflect a much more serious situation than the couple week temporary shortage stated by President Diaz Canel.
Communication technology is of vital importance anywhere in the world right now. Mobile phones aren’t new though, they’ve been forming a part of our lives for years now.
Saboteurs are experts in ruining romantic relationships, friendships and even family relationships. Experts in alleged conspiracies, they are able to create unease and even panic among the population, twisting any news.
Set in Havana and a rural town, it tells us the story of a love triangle between a young guajira and two men from her childhood. One of them is the sugar mill manager’s son, and the other one is a poor boy. The story unfolds from 1950 until 1994, year of the Rafter Crisis and the mass exodus.
Presidente Diaz Canel wants to make us believe that this “new crisis”, which is in fact already old, stems from the US embargo. Sixty years later, Cuba doesn’t even have its own shipping fleet to be able to transport oil.
Minas de Matahambre is the name of a town in the north of Pinar del Rio. Its name comes from the early 20th century when large copper reserves were discovered in area. This represented an important source of employment for many locals.
I’ve just landed in Cuba, amidst a serious fuel crisis. Havana is in chaos, buses are nowhere to be seen or jam packed, gas stations have lines coming out of them like never before, just like the never-ending lines of people you see waiting to catch a private collective taxi (which have doubled their rates unanimously overnight)...
Filmmaker Jenny Murray has taken on the task of telling the story of the Nicaraguan revolution from the point of view of militant Sandinista women. Unfortunately, her film becomes lost in the labyrinth of the country’s mythology.
Cirle Tatis Arzuza (a Colombian YouTuber, anti-racism activist and advocate for Africa’s cultural heritage) experienced “unpleasant events” in Cuba because she looked Cuban. Let's look at why.
The first thing that caught my attention in the speech of the Army Chief, Julio Cesar Aviles, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of that institution was what he didn’t say.
Cuba’s non-agricultural cooperatives will continue to be an “experiment”. This was the announcement that came from Yovana Vega Matos, Assistant Director of the Finetuning Department belonging to the Committee of Implementing the Communist Party Guidelines.
Today is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week’s U.N. Climate Action Summit.
Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy has given over 35 concerts in the United States, Canada and Central America since he was forced to seek exile in Costa Rica over a year ago. It’s his second period in exile, as once again he found himself needing to leave his country due to the brutal repression of another dictatorship.
In widely shared public testimony that has been live-streamed to tens of thousands of people, survivors and members of Jammeh’s death squad who killed migrants, journalists and civilians during the president’s reign are telling their stories for the world to hear. One such survivor is Fatou “Toufah” Jallow, who says the former president raped her in 2015.
Pancho, as he’s still known, was one of the members of the music group “Pancasan”, author of popular songs of the day such as “La Hora Cero” [Zero Hour], “Apuntes del Tio Sam” [Notes on Uncle Sam], and “Maria Rural”. Forty years later, he’s gone back to writing and composing, in the face of the clamor of a new generation that seeks the end of another dictatorship.
Long lines of up to 50 cars outside the few gas stations that have fuel and hundreds of people waiting at bus stops for hours, became a reality for Cuban people in the second week of September, as a result of some fuel shortages.
Dr. Maria Werlau is a meticulous researcher of the crimes committed by Latin American dictatorships. Cuba, her bleeding Homeland, is at the heart of her concern for 67 consecutive years of dictatorships, first Fulgencio Batista, followed by Fidel Castro and those who continued in his footsteps.
The garage is filled with refugees. They are seated in plastic chairs arranged in rows, as though ready for prayers, or mass. But the people - mostly women with children – aren’t listening to the voice of a pastor. Far from it. They are waiting to be called by a medical doctor in street garb, sporting blue latex gloves and a stethoscope...
Yep, reggaeton has made it: it’s impossible to go a day without hearing it, without knowing what it is, without dancing to the beat of its songs. Reggaeton is marking an era. Maybe it is an era, in itself. In spite of efforts to contain it, the music genre, its expressions, connect with people, get in your head and spread.
