Women from grassroots organizations all across the globe arrived in New York this week for a five-day summit dedicated to bolstering female and community- based representation at the all levels of political decision making.
Read MoreWhen I was a little girl, I remember having seen my mother standing in the kitchen doorway on more than one occasion with a depressed look. When I would ask her what was wrong, she would respond, “It’s that I don’t know what I’ll cook today.” I would simply shrug my shoulders and then scamper away to play.
Read MoreA new cultural center dedicated to The Beatles was opened in the Havana district of El Vedado, just a few meters from the park where there is a statue of John Lennon. The installation, named El submarino amarillo (The Yellow Submarine) is a tribute to a song by the British group, and will offer music from the 1960s and 70s.
Read MoreThe airport of the US city of Tampa was authorized by the Barack Obama administration to carry out flights to Cuba, according to the Chamber of Commerce of that city, where a community of around 100,000 persons of Cuban origin live. Cuban-Americans can travel freely to Cuba while ordinary US citizens need a special license from the US Treasury Dept. to legally visit the island.
Read MoreProfessor Marta Hernández was elected president of the Cuban capital’s Provincial Assembly of People’s Power, replacing Juan Contino, who had been heading the Havana city hall for eight years. Hernández, born in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, is a member of the ruling Communist Party.
Read MoreCuba’s agriculture authorities will try to re-launch in the next five years coffee production on the island, which dropped from 60,000 tons in 1961 to ten times less at present. The collapse of this sector is due, among other reasons, to the lack of qualified labour force, the poor care of the crops and insufficient payment to producers.
Read More“I’m on this side, but I have to put myself in your place. I know full well that it’s not easy. I’d love to give everyone a ride for free, but I can’t. Everybody needs money to survive, but this is the only way I have to survive myself.”
Read MoreThis Cuban singer-songwriter, a native of the country town of Mines de Matahambre in Pinar del Rio province, belongs to the Nueva Trova movement. Among his followers are several generations of Cubans, not only for his songs that are pleasing to the ear, but for his intelligent compositions and because he is — as he says — a “committed singer.”
Read MoreViolence against women is not a subject that one would normally associate with comic strip books, but a French publisher thought this would be a “perfect” medium for raising awareness among both young and old.
Read MoreUnder growing political pressure at home, President Barack Obama inched closer here Monday towards committing U.S. military power to at least protecting areas under rebel control, if not ending the 42-year reign of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
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