At the problematic time of 4:30 pm on Wednesday, I took the route 5 bus to get from the Havana municipality of Vedado to Old Havana. To my delight, the vehicle wasn’t so crowded — like it usually is — so I tried to walk to the back.
Read MoreThe Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, in its 34th edition, will recognize three teachers of the seventh art: Italy’s Michelangelo Antonioni, France’s Chris Marker, and Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer.
Read MoreThe Cuban government is trimming back its system of free education and promoting more practical areas of study in a move to reduce costs and satisfy the nation’s labor force needs, reported Reuters based on figures of the island’s National Statistics Office.
Read MoreThe trial starts today in Bayamo of the Spanish politician Angel Carromero, who is charged with manslaughter in the deaths of dissidents Oswaldo Paya and Hector Cepero. The family of Paya traveled to the eastern Cuban city on Thursday.
Read MoreThe Cuban electorate has nominated 32,183 people to run as delegates to municipal assemblies across the island, reported Alina Balseiro, the president of the National Electoral Commission (CEN), speaking on Thursday in Havana.
Read MoreThe Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia ratified an agreement on Tuesday in La Paz between that country’s government and Cuba dealing with cooperation in the struggle against drug trafficking.
Read MoreBotanists and orchid collectors from the Americas and Europe will participate in the 8th international workshop on this family of plants, which is set to be held at the orchid center and garden in the Cuban town of Soroa from October 23 to 25.
Read MoreThe robust ceiba tree that was growing in front of the university steps in the Cuban capital has been drastically pruned. This is another example of sloppy and disrespectful work of those involved in the green areas in this battered city.
Read MoreCuban opposition blogger Yoani Sanchez and her husband Reynaldo Escobar have been detained by security forces in Cuba as they attempted to attend the trial of Spanish politician Angel Carromero that begins today in the eastern city of Bayamo.
Read MoreThese days the official Cuban press is “delighted,” since it is successfully carrying out one of its usual disinformation actions. This time it involves one of the biggest scandals in China since “the Tiananmen Square protest” of June 1989.
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