Last year, 14,000 teachers left the classroom with medical leave certificates or requesting self-employment licenses, while this summer another 4,000 gave up teaching without excuses. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the slots to study teaching careers are vacant.
Read MoreCuba will allow the return of emigrants who left the country illegally since 1994 after waiting a period of eight years, according to a new aspect of the immigration reform. Similarly, athletes and doctors who deserted Cuban missions abroad after 1990 can return to the island, after a same eight year period.
Read MoreOn Election Day November 4th, California voters will decide on Proposition 37, which would make their state the first in the nation to require the labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Read MoreIn a couple of minutes we can come up with reasons why these people are in these situations, why they stay stuck like this, immovable, from all appearances without any prospects for change.
Read MoreBerroa is a community to the east of Havana. And while it’s a “community,” properly speaking, its only current importance is as a commercial zone. In it is located Havana’s famous duty-free zone, within which lie numbers of warehouses.
Read MoreAs an effect of the storm, Havana will experience only some scattered showers in the first part of the term. The remainder of the time we will have good weather with pleasant temperatures and moderate winds.
Read MoreThe Cuban civil defense network declared an alarm phase in the eastern half of the island as what is now Hurricane Sandy closes in on the southeastern coast. Sandy packs 80 mp/h winds and is moving north at 14 mp/h. Heavy rains are expected.
Read MoreThe controversial telenovela Pablo Escobar, el patron del mal (Pablo Escobar: The Ringleader of Evil), produced by Colombia’s Caracol network, has everyone here hooked. Older people still recall the details of the 1980s in Colombia, where the name “Pablo Escobar” was the highlight of each news item that referred to that country.
Read MoreHe has fullfilled his mission, living long enough to ensure the transition (we don’t know to what), so that the Cuban people will slowly adapt to the idea of continutity of what we call the revolution but without Fidel Castro.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro again praised the properties of the plants Moringa oleifera and Morera in a letter responding to a reader. His reply was published by the official Cubadebate website.
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