Before leaving Venezuela, Chavez had said in a message broadcast to the nation on radio and television: “I have great faith in Christ our Lord, who will repeat the miracle so that I will stay alive, to defeat this disease that came from natural causes.”
Read MoreColombian president Juan Manuel Santos said in an interview to the Sunday edition of the local newspaper El Tiempo that the US and Cuba need to come closer to each other and change their relations.
Read MoreDuring this third annual Latin America Photography Week, exhibitions were put on display presenting various formal and thematic approaches to the universe of photography today.
Read MoreOne of the prime locations to hear Cuban Jazz is the La Zorra y El Cuervo club located on 23rd St. in the Vedado district of Havana. The club has a monthly program with a different act every night. The first set starts at 11:00 p.m. Call 833-2402 to confirm.
Read MoreSomething strange often happens when I am with a foreigner and I criticize the system in my country. They’re taken aback and rebuke me for being ungrateful, naive, and ignorant, in daring to criticize the reality in which I live because I don’t know what the reality is like in other countries.
Read MoreIf I had to summarize in one word my book review of “Breaking Up With Cuba: The Dissolution of Friendly Relations Between Washington and Havana, 1956-1961”, by Daniel F. Solomon, it would be WOW!
Read MoreCuban reform czar Marino Murillo has just presented “a policy that has been adopted for the experimental creation of non-agricultural cooperatives.” My first reaction is to celebrate this step.
Read MoreThose who receive money from a foreign power — one which is also the self-declared enemy of the Cuban Revolution — cannot be regarded as a simple opponents. They are mercenaries and counter-revolutionaries.
Read MoreFormed most likely from a volcanic rupture, the “Gran Piedra” (the Grand Stone) is an enormous rock measuring 51 yards long and 25 to 30 yards wide. This boulder is situated on the summit of a mountain rising 1,225 meters above sea level and located 25 kilometers southeast from the city of Santiago de Cuba. (20 photos)
Read MoreOakland A’s rookie slugger Yoennis Céspedes has already surrendered his share of the Cuban League single-season home run record. But apparently not looking back, Céspedes has been busy enough making his own loud splash at the big league level during Major League Baseball’s opening week.
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