The National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, as part of their first US tour, will perform on October 27th in New York City, where thy will feature works from their classical Cuban and universal repertoires.
Read MoreCuban Boxing Federation executives on the island have decided to realign their divisions with an eye on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Read More“Scientists say we’re made of atoms, but a little birdie told me we’re made of stories. One truth of the Mayan Indians is that we’re children of the days, and therefore every day a new story is born.”
Read MoreAn explanation was published by Cuba’s Electric Company under the headline: “Commission Reports on the Cause of the Sept. 9 Blackout.” According to the memo, this is the report by the committee that was set up to investigate the accident, its causes and the conditions that led to the breakdown.
Read MoreThis conversation could have happened anywhere in contemporary Cuba after the publication of the new immigration law.
Read MoreThe new documentary, “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal,” chronicles Abu-Jamal’s life and work as a journalist, writer and public intellectual, even as he spent some 30 years on death row in Pennsylvania.
Read MoreThe government officials from Mexico and Cuba met in Havana this week for their first negotiating session for broadening and deepening commercial relations.
Read MoreThe National Electoral Commission (CEN) extended the holding of municipal elections in the eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Camaguey and Ciego de Avila, which have been hit by heavy rains.
Read MoreThe Bolivian government signed a contract on Sunday with the Cuban company Tecnosime to set up a fruit juice processing plant in that South American nation’s Sacta Valley.
Read MoreOne of the greats of Cuban visual arts today is Ileana Mulet. She told us: “Two places were the “school of life” for me. One was being an interior decorator for the tourist industry for over seventeen years, and the other was working as a costume designer for television for five years.” (8 photos)
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