Cuba’s singer/songwriter Silvio Rodriguez opened the Voices for Juarez concert on Friday in the border city plagued by violence. The concert took place at the Benito Juarez Olympic Stadium and also included the Mexican artist Lila Downs and salsero Willie Colon.
Read MoreControversy is building up over a 91-year-old man, his 17-year-old grandson and a 20-year-old neighbor, all farmers, who were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire as they tried to tend their land 700 meters from northern Gaza’s border with Israel.
Read MoreA small fishing community in the northern Argentine province of Chaco is pressing for a sustainable development program to preserve their simple way of life and the natural habitat, rather than a mega-investment project that would draw upscale tourism instead of the people who now come to seek peace and quiet on the weekends.
Read MoreHundreds of persons will meet today in several areas of this city’s coastline to participate in the Save Your Little Piece drive, coordinated by the Institute of Oceanology, the Centre for Marine Research and the National Aquarium. “This should be a permanent task, that commits neighbors and bathers,” said Angela Corbea, director of the Acualina environmental project.
Read MoreU.S. journalist Edward Schumacher-Matos, from The Washington Post, recommended today to the Barack Obama administration that it unilaterally lift the embargo on Cuba to avoid a new migration wave due to the economic crisis the island is going through.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will release another four political prisoners, out of the 75 detained in 2003, Orlando Márquez, spokesman of the Havana Archbishopric, announced. With this group, 36 dissidents have been released in this process.
Read MoreFuneral services for social crusader Reverend Lucius Walker Jr., a longtime friend of Cuba, took place on Friday in the filled-to-capacity Covenant Baptist Church in Harlem.
Read MoreIt must be incredible to come back from the dead. That’s what Fidel has done, one more entry in his book of innumerable combats. I have a journalist friend in California, an expert in all things Cuban, who has been waiting four years for Fidel to die just so she can despair.
Read MoreFive Cubans who infiltrated terrorist groups in southern Florida recently marked their 12th year in prison in the United States. The mission for which they were prosecuted was simply to alert their country of the criminal plans of those organizations.
Read MoreThe bureaucracy has two paths: merge with the people by sharing power with the workers, or try to swim with the sharks of foreign capital, which in our case —since we’re not big fish like in China or Russia— would mean our being devoured. I refuse to believe that this latter is what Fidel and Raul want.
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