Last year, the online branding company East-West Communications ranked Mexico 191st out of 200 countries on its Brand Perception Index, which is generated by analyzing buzzwords in the international media’s quarterly and annual coverage of a certain country
Read MoreHere is the cultural calendar for June 2011 put out by the Cuba Absolutely website. It includes happenings in music, dance, and theater and the visual arts, etc. in the Cuban capital. We also include the postings by the Cuban website Kewelta Habana.
Read MoreThe deadline for entries in the Third Havana Times Photo Contest for pictures taken in Cuba in four categories closes on midnight June 15. The four categories for submitting photo entries are: Cubans at Work, The Color Red in Cuba, Cuba’s Beaches, Cuban Women
Read MorePresident Raul Castro, who turned 80 Friday, is facing the challenge of making the Cuban economy more efficient without abandoning socialism – a course that involves overcoming conservative resistance to change and new forms of working and even thinking. “We have to take care of him; only he can set the reforms in motion,” one academic confided to IPS.
Read MoreTo mark World Environment Day this coming Sunday (June 5), an intense campaign of great importance for humanity will begin in Cuba. It’s our grain of sand for the sake of protecting and preserving nature, which requires urgent action. (25 photos)
Read MoreWhen I’ve gone to that school, on more than one occasion I’ve felt that the logic of my world implodes when I enter that place. It’s as if it is governed by different laws. But I took a deep breath and spoke with the head of my son’s grade level.
Read MoreCastro said he feels good as he joins the club of eighty-year-olds in Cuba’s top leadership, many of whom, like Raul, took part in the guerrilla struggle that toppled the Batista dictatorship in 1959.
Read MoreFour decades after Washington declared its “war on drugs” and began to spread the doctrine south of the U.S. border, the government of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro decided to shift away from that approach towards a strategy focused on community policing.
Read MoreThere are no buses from Varadero to Cayo Coco. There is a tourist-quality Viazul bus that leaves Varadero daily for Santiago de Cuba, and which stops in the city of Ciego de Ávila, the capital of the province by the same name in which the island of Cayo Coco is located off the northern coast.
Read MoreSocialism has no chance of becoming an economically viable system, assert many from the United States, though this makes it difficult to understand why they put so much effort and resources into boycotting the Cuban economy.
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