Cuba will present its cooperation initiatives in the educational area, especially those linked to teaching adults how to read and write, during the Pedagogy 2011 International Congress, to be held in the Cuban capital next January 24-28, sources from the Organizing Committee announced. More than 3,000 educational professionals from the five continents will attend the event,.
Read MoreA number of recent incidents discriminating against Israel’s Palestinian minority has prompted Israeli Knesset (parliament) members to debate whether Israel is becoming increasingly racist.
Read MoreBarber’s and Hairdresser’s Day was recently celebrated in Cuba, which was the reason behind the 7th Artecorte Festival taking place in Havana. The festival featured the unusual combination of music, painting and hairdressing. (26 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuban Baseball League is on vacation until play resumes on Tuesday January 4th. With just over a quarter of the 90-game season played Cienfuegos is the surprise leader in the Western Division ahead of La Habana and Pinar del Rio while Ciego de Avila is on top in the East followed by Villa Clara, Guantanamo and Granma.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro sent his First Vice President Machado Ventura to attend Saturday’s inauguration of Brazil’s new leader, Dilma Rousseff.
Read MoreCuba is a society lacking basic civil and political freedoms. But it is a living society, with an impressive mass of university and technical graduates, with an educational system that continues to be well recognized internationally.
Read MoreI made it to the farmer’s market…well, to where there was supposed to have been a market. There was nothing, or — better said — there was in fact a lot of people drinking and laughing. The celebrations had already begun there.
Read MoreThe Hotel Nacional de Cuba, considered the island’s flagship tourist installation, today is celebrating 80 years, Antonio Martínez Rodríguez, general manager of the hotel, announced. The hotel, visited by political, sport and cultural personalities, has maintained an average occupancy rate of around 75 per cent in the last decade.
Read MoreThe Cuban State will maintain its subsidy to the island’s publishing houses, but they will have to adjust their subjects and print runs to the population’s demands, Zuleika Romay, director of the Cuban Book Institute, affirmed. Every year Cuba organizes a book fair with the sale of millions of copies, in what constitutes one of the country’s major cultural events,
Read More“It looks like you want to get yourself into trouble, friend,” a Cuban official warned me when he learned about the article I’m working on for the beginning of next year. The truth is that he left me reflecting on that philosophy of life that is so widespread.
“Not getting into trouble” is a goal that’s much more difficult than it seems. For this to happen it’s not enough to sell your soul to the devil, you also have to sell it to God and end up becoming a kind of spiritual merchant.
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