Cuba’s coveted National Cinema Award for 2011 was received by actress Eslinda Nuñez at the headquarters of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) in the capital. Some of her most memorable roles were in the films Lucia (1968), Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), Cecilia (1981), Amada (1983).
Read MoreDesgaste is the first individual exhibition of this young 28-year-old artist who has previously participated in several group expositions.” This work has taken me two or three years of experimentation to develop, without knowing if it could or could not be developed as a form of art,” notes Yomer Fidel Montejo Harrys. 13 FOTOS
Read More“It hasn’t been for a lack of demands. There hasn’t been a meeting of the CDR (neighborhood-based Committees for the Defense of the Revolution) or with the local representative to the Peoples Power Assembly of the Province where local people haven’t raised these concerns.”
Read More“Women didn’t want to be slaves any more, or work professionally at what they were trying to liberate themselves from,” renowned Venezuelan chef Helena Ibarra told IPS, explaining why women have taken so long to compete in a workplace as symbolically feminine as the kitchen.
Read MoreThe diplomatic offensive undertaken by Cuba in recent weeks is propping up the most important medium-term development programs implemented as part of what the Raul Castro government describes as the “updating” of the economic system without abandoning socialism.
Read MoreThe dramaturgic works of acclaimed Cuban writer Nicolas Dor have transcended Cuban theater. He was recently selected as the best author of the year by the Association of Entertainment Critics in New York.
Read MoreA year after Israel’s massacre of nine humanitarian volunteers aboard the mavi Marmara who were delivering aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip, I interviewed Dr Ahmed Yousef (Secretary General, The House of Wisdom Institution for Conflict Resolution and Governance, and past-President of the Committee for Breaking the Siege) in Gaza about the upcoming Freedom Flotilla II.
Read MoreA new example of people-to-people exchange took place last week when the International Seakeepers Society of the US and the Club Náutico Internatiocional Hemingway de Cuba signed a collaboration agreement in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreComing from modest beginnings, but possessing an encyclopedic mind, Jose Marti was a poet, writer, journalist, and translator, a teacher of teachers, an active advocate of independence and a tireless fighter against all forms of injustice. Here’s a look at the memorial built to him in the 1950s. (33 photos)
Read MoreGuatemala will become a hub of connection and logistics for world trade when a highway-rail cargo transport corridor linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is completed.
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