The legendary Scheherazade has exchanged her enthralling tales of “One Thousand and One Nights” for a compact disc with 1,001 academic articles, essays and books, giving Cubans access to materials that would otherwise be very difficult to obtain.
Read MoreCubans are delving deeper into economic change, which means new taxes and an end to the state subsidies that for decades were a symbol of the equality so highly extolled under the Cuban Revolution.
Read MoreThe Cuban tourism authorities expect to increase the arrival of cruise ships to the island in 2011, with the operations of ships from Russia, Canada and the UK, José Manuel Bisbé, marketing director of the Ministry of Tourism, announced. Moreover, the Caribbean nation will increase air links with Canada, its principal tourist market with almost one million visitors a year, with the start of flights by the Air Transat and Sunwing airlines.
Read MoreThe People’s Provincial Court of the Cuban capital began the trial against Salvadoran Francisco Chávez Abarca, accused of terrorism. Abarca, circulated by Cuba for the capture by Interpol, was detained on June 1 in Venezuela.
Read MoreCuba’s National Council of Cultural Heritage declared the home of writer José Lezama Lima a National Monument, marking the end of the tributes for the centenary of the birth of that Cuban intellectual, considered one of the major exponents of Spanish-American literature. The ceremony also closed the days of vindication of Lezama (1910-1976), condemned to ostracism by the island’s cultural authorities in the 1970s.
Read MoreThe Cuban International Cigar Company (ICT) increased its exports by 7.5 per cent as compared to last year, by marketing 119.3 million cigar packages, Blas Manuel Fernández, economic director of that entity, reported. In 2010 the ICT carried out sales worth 18.8 million dollars of its catalogue of 10 Havana cigar brands.
Read MoreDocumentary filmmaker Michael Moore has responded to false claims that his film Sicko, mainly about the US health industry, was banned in Cuba. Moore maintains just the opposite and sites several Cuba news reports to back his assertion that the US government made up the story to try and discredit the film’s information about health care in the US and Cuba.
Read MoreA total lunar eclipse will be visible in Cuba on early Tuesday as Fall turns to Winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In Cuba, the total phase of the eclipse will be visible for a little over an hour starting at 2:41 a.m. Tuesday and ending at 3:53 a.m.
Read MoreA different city emerges on the weekends in Havana. Young people, whose faces are as strange as they are common, take possession of the city and reinvent it. They are the “urban tribes,” a global phenomenon that has made its mark on Cuba.
Read MoreCuban and Chinese authorities have agreed to normalize their financial relations as a result of the 23rd Session of the Intergovernmental Commission. The Asian giant also gave the island an unspecified interest-free governmental credit and a donation, both for development projects.
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