The 13th JoJazz 2010 Festival just concluded in Havana. It’s an event that has led to the “discovery” of numerous young talents and been a launching pad for their careers. During the competition HT interviewed composer Leonardo Fabian Gil.
Read MoreAs the dust settles following contract negotiations with foreign oil companies, Ecuador is looking at a new map for its petroleum industry and trying to determine what it will mean in economic terms for this OPEC-member nation.
Read MoreLeonardo Fabian Gil Milian and Alejandro Meroño Valle won the top prizes for Composition and Performance respectively at the 13th edition of the International JoJazz Competition in Havana. (16 photos)
Read MoreThe Communist Party opened debate Wednesday on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and the Revolution , a process to conclude on February 28. Meetings will be held at workplaces and communities around the country, announced an editorial in the official Granma daily. “No one should be left without giving an opinion and much less prevented from expressing it,” affirms the text titled “The people are who decides.”
Read MoreThe Cuban medical services have benefited 25,000 persons from Venezuela during the last 10 years, the Cuban media affirmed after yesterday’s commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the integral health agreement between both countries. According to Pedro Llerena, director of La Pradera international healthcare centre and who heads the health program, during that time 9,500 operations and more than 300 organ transplants have been carried out.
Read MoreRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov affirmed today in the Russian capital of Moscow that inter-parliamentary cooperation between his country and Cuba surpassed the simple stage of exchange of delegations. In the new stage of contacts by specific departments, the economic issue will have top-notch attention, Riabkov said.
Read MoreUnderemployment is a burden that has taken its toll on our social system for several years now, and whose solution was continually deferred for numbers of reasons with the consequent worsening of the problem.
Read MoreAn unusually strong controversy has broken out in Cuba over a vote by the delegation from this Caribbean nation in favor of an amendment that left out the specific mention of sexual orientation in a United Nations General Assembly resolution on extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions.
Read More“The Day Diplomacy Died” written and directed by Dwyer and Ruiz covers events of Spring 2003 with the dramatic story unfolding in Cuba about “Fidel Castro’s Crackdown: Jailing of 75 journalists.”
Read MoreThe leaked reports sent by U.S. officials abroad to Washington reveal a treacherous playing field for the United States in the Middle East.
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