Neither hurricanes nor floods, nor the devastating January earthquake or Haiti’s chronic political instability managed to wipe out the organic gardening initiative underway in that country since 2005. The seed was planted in Argentina twenty years ago.
Read MoreI was hoping to do some day hiking in Cuba and a GPS is nice to have so I do not have to be as careful were I am and especially how far back to my hotel. Is GPS still banned?
Read MoreI’m concerned about bringing an iPhone to Cuba, as there are no GPS devices allowed in the country. I don’t want to have it confiscated in Customs. Anybody know if I should be concerned about this?
Read MoreCuba’s biotechnology industry is hoping to conquer the European Union market with Heberprot-P, a therapeutic drug used to prevent foot amputations in patients with diabetes.
Read MoreThe people of Cuba own a beautiful baseball, pure in its concept and artistic in its execution. Unlike its North American and Asian professional counterparts, the Cuban League version of the sport is played far more for pride and passion than for the tarnished purposes of supporting a highly profitable commercial enterprise. Cuban fans—despite a sagging island economy—can still walk to the downtown stadium, purchase a prime location ticket for a mere pittance, and sit up close to the action in an arena that still looks and feels more like a neighborhood ballpark than a multi-level shopping mall.
Read MoreCuba expects to obtain new cacao harvests in five years as a result of the planting of new plantations in the Guamuhaya Mountains, in the central province of Cienfuegos, by farmer women from one of the area’s co-ops, said Raúl Chaviano, assistant director of the Eladio Machín Agricultural Industrial Company.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will release another five prisoners who will travel to Spain in the next few days, the Catholic Church announced. Four men and a woman make up this group, the majority sentenced for piracy and terrorism crimes. The decision confirms the interest of the island’s authorities to extend the releases beyond the opposition members arrested in 2003.
Read MoreWhen I was a little girl, people used to tell me amazing stories about Cuba prior to the 1959 revolution. I found the work of “shoeshine boys” to be almost the most terrible thing they described.
Read MoreTropical Storm Richard remains virtually stationary east of northern Honduras and when finally picking up steam is now expected to reach land in northern Belize or the southern Mexican Yucatan sometime Monday, says the Cuban Meteorological Institute (INSMET). Both INSMET and US forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami do not show the storm posing a threat to Cuba.
Read MoreTropical Storm Richard formed on Thursday and is now 380 kilometers south-southeast of Grand Cayman and 320 kilometers east-northeast from Cabo Gracias a Dios, on the Honduras-Nicaraguan border, reported the Cuban Meteorological Institute (INSMET) at 6:00 p.m. EST on Thursday.
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