In almost all bakeries where they make bread rolls for our households, the clerks handle the “products” with the same grimy hands they use to count bills and coins. Even in times like these — with diarrheal epidemics and shortages of medicines — this practice continues.
Read MoreCuban continues to maintain its slim first-place margin of nearly 33 points over the runner-up Americans. Japan and Korea also continue to hold down the third and fourth spots, although the two Asian powers have now switched places from the 2011 poll (with Japan moving up to the third slot).
Read MoreNumerous readers of HT have asked us the question of where is Fidel Castro? The silence is beginning to provoke speculation on Fidel’s health. The Cuban media has remained silent.
Read MoreAs consumers worldwide flood Apple Stores to buy the new iPhone 5, we look at why thousands of Chinese workers at a key Apple manufacturing plant walked off the job last week.
Read MoreCuba shouldn’t have an army. From my point of view, that would be the most important step we Cubans would take if we wanted to build a nation with a future, a country with opportunities.
Read MoreI’ve started biting my nails. I don’t end up swallowing them like I did when I was a child, when I was dying of boredom in class. Now I only chew on them carefully, avoid the cuticles. I’ve lived about 24 very “entertaining” years.
Read MoreChavez, though not my cup of tea, has been elected and re-elected by the people, and this is a demonstration of popular power. This is unlike Cuba’s system, which is now ready to start its voting, though we all know in advance what the results will be.
Read MoreThe feature film Penumbras (Shadows), the debuting work by director Charly Medina, opens today in Havana at the Cinematheque de Cuba theater. It is a minimalist look at life in Cuban in the 1990s.
Read MoreCuban athlete Osleni Guerrero will compete on Thursday in the 17th Pan American Badminton Championship in Lima Peru for four days.
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