The people of Cienfuegos are among the proudest I’ve ever found. Most assured me that they wouldn’t ever live in the capital for anything in the world. I myself love the bay, famous among singers for its beauty. (23 photos)
Read MoreWe find it paradoxical to see his image used in Cuba to commercialize products – everywhere from markets run by cuentapropistas (people authorized to set up small businesses) to stores owned and operated by the State. (22 photos)
Read MoreThe popular Cuban rap duo Los Aldeanos will perform in concert in Miami on November 13, reported IPS, citing the El Nuevo Herald newspaper. The group will perform along with Silvito El Libre, another representative of the underground Cuban hip hop movement, that cuts discs outside the state institutions.
Read MoreCubans can surprise you for the things they know or the things they can tell you. Even when they’ve never left their country, they speak of other places as if they had lived there. (31 photos)
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Read MoreThe Cuban government extended from 50 to 99 years the right to the use of state lands by companies from other countries that invest in the island, with the aim of “giving foreign investors greater security and guarantee in real estate businesses, for the sustainable development of the country and the national economy,” according to a decree published in the Gaceta Oficial.
Read MoreA delegation from the ruling Spanish Workers Socialist Party (PSOE) will arrive in Cuba next August 31 to back President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s policy of dialogue with the island, Leire Pajín, that organization’s secretary, announced. The mediation of the Catholic Church, with the backing of Madrid, achieved the Cuban authorities’ promise to release 52 political prisoners, of which 26 have already been set free.
Read MoreThe foreign ministers of Cuba and Paraguay, Bruno Rodríguez and Héctor Lacognata, met in the island’s capital as part of the sixth bilateral meeting of the consultation mechanisms, the local press reported. A total of 727 young Paraguayans are studying in Cuba, while more than 8,000 persons from the South American nation have learned to read and write thanks to the Yo sí puedo (Yes I Can) Cuban literacy method.
Read MoreCuba began the process of selecting its team for the 2010 COPABE Pan American Games/World Cup Qualifying Tournament to take place in Puerto Rico from October 1-10. A shortlist of 39 players was announced on Thursday.
Read MoreI believe that to begin to solve our problems in Cuba the Cuban government should pick up the microphone and say, “Starting tomorrow, no one else on this island will be punished or penalized for thinking differently.”
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