Berta Soler, the spokesperson for the group known as the “Ladies in White,” said on Sunday that the activists hope to attend the Mass that Benedict XVI will officiate on Wednesday at Revolution Square in Havana.
Read MoreIt’s no secret that many people’s mouths around the world are watering over the visit of His Holiness Benedict XVI to Cuba. But not all this is the result of delighted anticipation. And frankly, some of it is poisonous and violent slobber, though few mouth’s will cease to water.
Read MoreThe 93rd birthday of LawrenceFerlinghetti (1919 -) a distinguished member of the “Beat Generation” was celebrated in Havana at the headquarters of the Estado de Sats forum on the evening of Saturday March 24th.
Read More“A lot of things have happened, and I think that many of the goals have been achieved by those who started actions around that demand: the demotion of the agency’s director. The most important thing now is to rebuild, to see how we can move the Cuban Agency of Rap forward,” said Alcaild in his interview with HT.
Read MoreA few years ago, the statue of Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. disappeared from a small park located on the corner between Linea and G streets here in Havana. At that time I naively thought that the sculpture of the “the king of waltz” had been removed for restoration purposes.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled to Havana on Saturday night, for medical reasons, less than 48 hours before Pope Benedict XVI is expected in Cuba to begin his three-day visit to the Caribbean island nation.
Read MoreCarlos Saladrigas, a Cuban-American businessman and politician, will lecture in Havana this coming Friday March 30 at the Centro Cultural Padre Felix Varela, attached to the local Roman Catholic archdiocese.
Read MoreFor the second time in Cuba, the Peace and Love Festival was held in the capital on March 9-10. Few people knew that it was in coordination with Sweden (the host country for a number of years).(27 fotos)
Read MoreFor years I’ve worked hard to understand the role of trade unions, at least those here in Cuba. In history classes they taught us that these had emerged as vehicles for workers to stand up against factory owners and companies. I assumed that membership was voluntary here as one of our rights as workers.
Read MoreWord had spread by word of mouth, and only those people who were there that Friday afternoon on March 16 at Cathedral Square could believe what they saw. The famous painter Maykel Herrera inaugurated his exhibit “Truth Seems like a Fable” under the anxious looks of throngs of people. (12 photos)
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