Not everything is poetic or magical in this place; some youths with love for their partners —but little for Mother Nature— leave their names carved into trunks of the bamboos. There are also those who are involved in the illicit cutting down of the bamboo trees.
Read MoreCuba’s Fidel Castro continued on Friday morning his campaign of alert of an imminent new war in the Middle East. He spoke to students and professors on the steps of the University of Havana and centered his speech on a call for US President Obama to avoid setting off a war against Iran with nuclear consequences.
Read MoreHow can the scales of the Cuban caiman be turned into feathers? In Amerindian mythology, such a transformation is indispensable for the crocodile to fly. GECNA (the Our America Cultural Studies Group) aspires to defy not the gravity on the island, but something that is even more restricting: the individual ego.
Read MoreThere were few surprises on the announced player list, with veteran sluggers like Freddie Cepeda, Alfredo Despaigne, Hector Olivera, and Yulieski Gourriel leading the highly productive offense, and such familiar standbys as Pedro Luis Lazo (who announced his retirement after the international competitions), Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez and Norge Luis Vera fronting the robust pitching corps.
Read MorePedro Lazo’s announced retirement nearly overshadowed the release of Team Cuba’s shortlist for the upcoming October roster. Lazo will pitch for the national team in this fall’s international events but will not be back for the 2010-2011 Cuban League that follows.
Read MoreIt turns out that the “law of laws” —with which compliance is mandatory by all Cubans— says that “dual citizenship will not be admitted. As a consequence, when foreign citizenship is acquired, Cuban citizenship will be annulled.”
Read MoreThe ruling Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) has the will to “advance in a very clear way in that process of transformations and economic and social reforms,” Leire Pajín, secretary of the Spanish Workers Socialist Party (PSOE), in power in Spain since 2004, affirmed in statements to the press after meeting with Jorge Martí, head of international relations of the PCC.
Read MoreThe Brutal Rock Fest will begin today in the island’s capital with the participation of six metal groups from France and Switzerland, and four Cuban bands, which will perform in the Maxim Rock Theatre and in the city of Pinar del Río, sources from the event’s Organizing Committee announced. The musical event is sponsored by the Cuban Rock Agency, the French Brutal Beastdown Records label and the Swiss association Vrockal Metal Fest.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro will address students on the steps of the University of Havana on Friday morning at 7:30 a.m., the local press announced on Thursday. It will be the first open-air public speech by Castro since July 2006 when he came close to death with serious intestinal surgery.
Read MoreAroldis Chapman picked up his first Major League Baseball victory for the Cincinnati Reds against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night, in his second day up from the minors. To get it he repeated his one inning scoreless relief effort of Tuesday.
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