Tremendous colors flood the city. These are seen in parks, along highways, higher or less leafy. They sometimes cluster in groups, while others appear alone amid some barren terrain. The flamboyanes (flame trees) with their serpentine branches are found anywhere in the city. (27 photos)
Read MoreFor the past quarter century, the United States’ relations with Pacific island nations were framed by the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which combines foreign aid, subsidies to the U.S. fleet of purse-seine fishing vessels and their largely unfettered access to the islands’ waters, which contain the world’s last major stocks of tuna.
Read More“The impossibility of offering loans to producers put a brake on sales through the Campesino Program.” Of the 25,000 produced up until the end of April, only 36 implements had been sold in eight provinces for a total value about 158,000 pesos ($6,320 USD), with the majority purchased in Santiago de Cuba.
Read MoreThe contradiction is that Raul Castro is asking journalists to join in the battle for change but under the control of the same people who have led them into defeat and whose greatest concern seems to be punishing those who are “undisciplined.”
Read MoreThe same day that the lower house of the Brazilian Congress approved a reform of the forestry code that would make it easier to clear land in the Amazon jungle for agriculture, a husband and wife team of activists who spent years fighting illegal deforestation in the rainforest were murdered.
Read MoreThe arrival of the southern tip of a front will cause rains on Saturday afternoon. The rest of the period is expected to experience storms in the afternoons due to daytime heating combined with a humid airflow coming from the south of the Caribbean. The maximum temperatures in the period will fluctuate between 29°C (84°F) and 31°C (88°F). The minimum temperatures will be around 23°C (73°F).
Read MoreDespite major underground water reserves and the start of the rainy season, people in the central region of Cuba are anxiously scanning the skies in the face of scant rainfall, which is needed to ease a drought that has become more severe in recent years.
Read MoreCuba´’s Domestic Commerce Minister Jacinto Angulo Pardo was removed from his post without comment on the reason for his dismissal, announced the government on Tuesday.
Read MoreMichel combined his own figure – the protagonist of all the pieces – with elements of pop iconography and famous artists from Marilyn Monroe to Andy Warhol, not to mention his idol Madonna.
Read MoreThe death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan earlier this month was hailed by people across the United States and around the world as a fitting end for a self-confessed mass murderer.
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