Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Castro Supports Egyptians’ Struggle for Rights

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro expressed his support “for the Egyptian people and their brave struggle for their political rights and social justice.” In one of his usual Reflections, Castro strongly criticized deposed President Hosni Mubarak, who “was oppressing and plundering his own people, was the enemy of the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel” and the “principal ally of the United States in the ranks of the Arab countries.”

Former Prisoners Leave Spain for USA

Five former Cuban political prisoners left Spain for the United States, which will offer them legal residence in the country, the press in Madrid reported. With this group eight are the number of released dissidents who have decided on a different destination to that agreed by the island’s authorities, the Spanish government and the Catholic Church.

Flying Higher Doesn’t Mean a Better Flight

In a society where the overwhelming majority of youth not only don’t read, but they speak worse and worse every day, and they are voracious consumers of reggaeton and all types of flashy junk, this physical cutting back on poetry is only a symptom of the true illness that is eating away at us as a nation. It is a spiritual metastasis.

Egyptians Can Claim Mubarak’s Stolen Billions

For decades, European bank accounts and trusts and the real estate market were havens for dictators seeking safe places to deposit billions of dollars they were stealing from their countries of origin.

Cuba’s Chucho Valdes Wins 5th Grammy

Cuba’s famed jazz pianist Chucho Valdes won his fifth Grammy Award on Sunday night in Los Angeles, California. Valdes and his band The Afro-Cuban Messengers competed in the Best Latin Jazz Album category with the CD Chucho’s Steps.

A “Friend of Cuba” Interprets the Reforms

A perverse tradition in the political culture of the island’s leadership (which has permeated the whole of Cuban society) is that the achievements are privatized and the costs socialized.

Maylu Hernandez: A Lover of Musicals

“Being part of the Television Ballet I went on many international tours, some for only a few weeks and others — like with the Tihany Circus — for a year and a half.”

Three Cuba Artists Vie for Grammies

Chucho Valdes, Alex Cuba and Edesio Alejandro are the three Cuban artists nominated for Grammy Awards to be announced at the gala ceremony on Sunday, February 13 in Los Angeles, California.

Cuba Baseball Standings on Feb. 12

The Cuban baseball league continues this weekend with a full schedule of play. Cienfuegos remains on top of the Western Division with Pinar del Rio three games back. In the East, Ciego de Avila has a slim one game lead over Granma with Guantanamo only 1.5 games out of first.

Cuban University Goes 100% Linux

The more than 8,000 computers in the University of Computer Science (UCI) will soon migrate to the open-code Nova Linux 3.0 operating system, with which it will become the first educational center in Cuba to begin using exclusively free software, Abel Firvida, chief of the Nova project, affirmed.