Since photography was invented, waiting for the precise moment to snap a photo, or rather waiting for the exact lighting to squeeze off a shot, has been what has motivated many people the most and maddened others. The limestone hillocks of Viñales, either from outside or inside them, seem to toy with one’s patience. (21 photos)
Read MoreBasketball is his favorite sport but he also practiced baseball, boxing and soccer. He has two university degrees, is a sports trainer and most lately a bookseller.
Read MoreIn China, where a growing demand for organ transplants coupled with a dramatic shortage of donors has fuelled a rampant black market trade, selling your organs for cash is a mouse click away.
Read MoreThe Seventh National Craft Fair with Art for Mom took place from April 22 to May 7 in Havana at the Pabexpo exhibition center with the participation of numerous visual artists and artisans. Like every year, the activity was dedicated to Mother’s Day (celebrated on the second Sunday in May in Cuba) where it constitutes an opportunity for exchanges between creators as well as sales to the public of diverse utilitarian articles. (27 photos)
Read MoreLocal Industries constitute an entity that is very important economically for local development because it can take advantage of everything in the territorial that can be transformed it into beautiful and useful items.
Read MoreAt the beginning of the revolutionary process, the disproportionate presence of guerillas fighters in the government and party leadership could be justified. Fifty years later, and after an unprecedented cultural revolution, such a presence of military men and “historicos” is a divisive error.
Read MoreYou cannot ignore a day like this, one in which we scream with more energy than during the rest of the year “Congratulations Mother!” You holler this because she was the one who gave you the possibility of arriving, of knowing the friend that you have today, of loving the mate at our side.
Read MoreThe final draft of the economic reforms approved by the VI Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba will hit the newsstands in tabloid form as of Monday. Another document to be sold includes the reasoning behind the changes made in the initial “guidelines” document presented to the 1,000 delegate congress and the population in general.
Read More“If I had only known that when I was young,” or “if they had only told me” are just some of the statements made by many women who seek assistance at the centre for victims of gender violence set up by the local government in a town on the outskirts of the Argentine capital.
Read MoreAlejandro Francisco Roca, a former food industry minister, was handed down a 15-year prison sentence this week for corruption charges involving the Chilean-Cuban joint venture company Rio Zaza.
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