We interviewed Rosario Cardenas, a choreographer and the director of her own company, the renowned Danza Combinatoria. For this artist, dancers are creators as long as they participate actively in the creative processes of their works.
Read MoreHave you ever heard of Irish baroque mixed with traditional Cuban music? Can you imagine “sucu sucu” (originating from Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud) fused with “changui,” from the island’s east? A Cuban trio called Trovarroco that offers these pleasures. (10 photos)
Read MoreCuba’s baseball semifinal playoffs see Game 4 action on Sunday with Pinar del Rio and Granma both taking 2-1 series leads on Saturday.
Read MoreOn April 25 Cuba baseball legend Conrado Marrero will be celebrating his historic one hundredth birthday. On that date the former Washington Senators hurler – already the island’s only surviving pre-revolution major leaguer, as well as the oldest living MLB alumnus – will also become major league baseball’s only currently existing centenarian.
Read MoreCiego de Avila and Cienfuegos managed to tie their playoff semifinals with Granma and Pinar del Rio and the four teams square off in game three on Saturday.
Read MoreIn the eyes of the US justice system, fugitive plane and hotel bomber Luis Posada Carriles, 83, has a clean slate. Finally taken to court for lying to US immigration officials about how he snuck into the United States back in 2005, Posada, a long-time CIA operative, will continue to live freely in Miami.
Read MoreModern communications technology can help us get beyond the narrow leadership exercised over society by the group that continues to head the government/party. This is the action demanded for a new more inclusive socialist society.
Read MoreThe nongovernmental Cuba Studies Group proposed offering 50 million dollars in microloans to small private businesses that have opened in Cuba, in a report released in Washington. The initiative would also include the lifting of US restrictions on financial transactions to the island and the advice by US specialists to small businesses.
Read MoreSalmaniya Medical Complex, once one of the most renowned medical facilities in the Gulf and a jewel in the crown of Bahrain’s public healthcare system, has been transformed into a virtual ghost town.
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