In stark contrast to the political apathy of many of their contemporaries, some sectors of Cuban youth are radically re-writing the standard slogans, opting for active participation and fomenting “new revolutions within the Revolution.”
Read MoreThe mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, has called for a law for compulsory removals of homeless people off the streets, but this has met with resistance from civil society organisations and has split Ruiz-Gallardo’s own People’s Party (PP).
Read MoreStarting from the middle of the period we will be under the influence of a wedge of weak pressure gradients, giving us week of good weather with a low chance of rain. The maximum temperatures will fluctuate between 31°C (88°F) and the 32°C (90°F), and the minimum temperatures will be around the 22°C (72°F).
Read MoreIf those who emigrated before to the 1970s were characterized as “scum,” ever since that decade there began to take shape a more sophisticated ideological and a growing economic use of Cuban emigrants.
Read MoreSomething unusual happened on a Cuban roof: a gathering of cats of the Jellicle tribe. The king, “an excellent philosopher and good at rhyming,” once a year chooses the feline who will go to the “astronomical Eden” and receive seven lives. (16 photos)
Read MoreWhile gender roles have changed since Cuba’s 1959 revolution, inequalities persist among men and women in private life, and young people are both accepting that and breaking with it.
Read MoreThe new Cuban version of the stage play “Sleep” unwittingly touches on one of the most silenced problems in today’s Cuba: The gradual decline in the island’s population growth.
Read MoreLeticia is an eight-year-old third grader. Last Friday she was supposed to have an English exam, a subject she has problems with and doesn’t like a whole lot. She was nervous all week because of the exam, at least until Thursday. That day, her teacher informed all the students that there wouldn’t be any classes on Friday because of rehearsals for the 50th anniversary Bay of Pigs victory parade and “military review.”
Read MoreAccompanied unexpectedly by Fidel Castro, his brother Raul brought the sixth congress of Cuba’s Communist Party (PCC) to a close Tuesday with a call to “change everything that should be changed,” but without abandoning the socialist path taken on Apr. 16, 1961. (17 photos)
Read MoreThe curtain fell Tuesday on the 6th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba with an entrenched senior leadership and the approval of reforms to the economic system that will reduce the State’s role in some areas, while recommending lifting some prohibitions. (17 photos)
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