Participants at the International Nicolas Guillen Symposium and Festival of Music and Poetry on Tuesday called for justice in the case of the murder of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager who was killed in Florida by a racist vigilante.
Read MoreStudent leader Camila Vallejo arrived in Havana on Monday with leaders of the Communist Youth of Chile. The delegation was invited for the celebrations on the 50th anniversary of Cuba’s Young Communist League.
Read MoreCuban filmmaker Ian Padron will open the 13th edition of the Havana Film Festival (April 12-20) with his award-winning film Habanastation, which will be seen for the first time by the New York public.
Read More“I would have liked to have done it in front of my fans in Granma Province, but it just didn’t work out like that. I knew that at any moment I would break the record, but I never figured that it would be with a broken bat,” said Alfredo Despaigne.
Read MoreI want a Cuba without discrimination or exclusionary vetoes; one without monopolies of posttraumatic accompaniments, because the country belongs to everyone and should be for the good of all.
Read MoreIn 1961, barely 12 years old, Carlos Saladrigas was sent alone to Miami because his parents wanted to “save him from communism.” Half a century later he is one of the most successful Cuban-American businesspeople. For much of his life in exile he was an anti-Castro hardliner, but he is now part of a group that aims to support the reform process underway on the island.
Read MoreGranma’s Alfredo Despaigne cracked home runs number 34 of the current Cuban baseball season setting a new league record in the second inning on Tuesday night April 3 (2012), in Havana’s Latin American Stadium. Later in the game he also belted No. 35.
Read MoreAs thousands of people across the country call for justice in the case of Trayvon Martin, we’re joined by Van Jones, longtime anti-police brutality activist and co-founder of ColorOfChange.org, which aims to strengthen Black America’s political voice. He describes fearing for his own safety while wearing a hoodie and discusses the state of race relations under President Obama.
Read MoreState-owned enterprises in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus are implementing a project to promote the gradual clean-up of the Yayabo River.
Read MoreAmerican socialist Omari Musa will give an address today about Malcolm X at the Eighth International Nicolas Guillen Symposium and Festival of Music and Poetry, which is being held here in Havana until April 6.
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