I started asking myself this question three years ago. I was in Central Park in Old Havana, seated a few yards from the place where many people, mostly men, gather to argue about baseball, soccer and volleyball – or about Michael Jackson’s death at that particular time.
Read MoreThis week the Democratic Party convenes to rubber stamp a pre-written platform. A quick text search of the document’s 40 pages reveals that the United States government is still obsessed with the tiny island of Cuba.
Read MoreThe new school year began in Cuba on Monday. The ministry of education announced that 1,890,000 students were registered for primary and secondary (junior high) schools, 34,000 less than last year, an indication of the shrinking school-age population on the island.
Read MoreWe spend the hour looking at the bloody struggle to obtain — and protect — voting rights in the U.S. with the civil rights icon, now 13-term Georgia congressmember, John Lewis. During the 1960s, Rep. Lewis was arrested more than 40 times and beaten almost to death…
Read MoreA Cuban female team is participating in the 1st Pan American Youth (under 23) Volleyball Cup, to be held in the Peru’s Miguel Grau Coliseum, in El Callao, from today until September 8th.
Read MoreThe film Una Noche (One Night), by the British filmmaker Lucy Mulloy, will be premiered on September 8 at Havana’s La Rampa Theater, reported the newspaper Juventud Rebelde. The US-Cuban-British co-production focuses on the misadventures of a strange love triangle between the two youth and the sister of one of them who tries to cross the 90 miles that separate Cuba from Miami.
Read MoreFrom today until September 29, nominations of candidates for delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People’s Power will be made in the neighborhoods across the island. The National Electoral Commission envisions that close to 8.5 million people are eligible to vote.
Read MoreThe National Statistics Office of Cuba (ONE) reports that the country is producing less food than five years ago, while food prices rose 20 percent in 2011 alone.
Read MoreSeveral political dissidents were detained for several hours in Havana on Saturday after being stopped en route to a meeting of the opposition group Estado de SATS, reports the Cubaencuentro website. Short-term detentions, with no charges filed, has become the routine method used of late by State Securty.
Read MoreThe following is the monthly calendar (in Spanish) of film showings at the Cinemateca de Cuba which includes the Charles Chaplin theater and the Charlot videoteca, both located on 23rd St. between 10th and 12th in Havana’s Vedado District.
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