I owe an excuse to the readers of Havana Times. First for the number of times that I’ve written about the issue of public transportation in Cuba, which I imagine is pretty boring to any outsider. Secondly, because every time I’ve written on the subject up until now, it’s been to complain…the ingrate that I am.
Read MoreCuriously, over the last several months, the positions of the small dissident movement, émigrés and the government concurred in pointing out that no reforms are taking place in the country, only adjustments to the model that has functioned in Cuba for 40 years.
Read MoreAn earthquake of 2.9 degrees on the Richter scale occurred yesterday in Santiago de Cuba, the local press reported today. According to the National Centre of Seismological Research, the quake was felt in that city, the second most important in the country, and in two nearby towns.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and France resumed official cooperation, after more than seven years of rupture because of the imprisonment of dissidents on the island in 2003. Both countries will concentrate their collaboration in areas such as agriculture, health, the environment, scientific research, the teaching of French and culture.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Jewish community in Cuba denied that U.S. agent Alan Gross had collaborated with them before his detention in December 2009, reported IPS on Thursday. The relationship with the Jewish community has been one of the arguments of the defense to justify the presence on the island of Gross, whom the government accuses of distributing illegal electronic devices to dissidents backed by Washington.
Read MoreThe 32nd edition of the New Latin American Film Festival will begin today in the Cuban capital with the projection of the Mexican film Revolución, announced the webpage of the event, in which more than 500 works will be presented.
Read MoreThe 13th JoJazz 2010 Festival just concluded in Havana. It’s an event that has led to the “discovery” of numerous young talents and been a launching pad for their careers. During the competition HT interviewed composer Leonardo Fabian Gil.
Read MoreAs the dust settles following contract negotiations with foreign oil companies, Ecuador is looking at a new map for its petroleum industry and trying to determine what it will mean in economic terms for this OPEC-member nation.
Read MoreLeonardo Fabian Gil Milian and Alejandro Meroño Valle won the top prizes for Composition and Performance respectively at the 13th edition of the International JoJazz Competition in Havana. (16 photos)
Read MoreThe Communist Party opened debate Wednesday on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and the Revolution , a process to conclude on February 28. Meetings will be held at workplaces and communities around the country, announced an editorial in the official Granma daily. “No one should be left without giving an opinion and much less prevented from expressing it,” affirms the text titled “The people are who decides.”
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