The Cienfuegos Cemetery takes its name from Tomas Acea in honor of one of the wealthiest families of this city in times past. They donated part of their fortune for this work, considered by experts to be among the finest of its type in Cuba. (22 photos)
Read MoreHavana Cardinal Jaime Ortega and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos also obtained approval from the Cuban government for the beneficiaries of these measures to relocate in Spain. The first releases took place on July 10, 2010 and corporate media photos demonstrated that the prisoners had been well fed during detention. Most of them were a bit overweight and were in good health. On July 25, 2010, a total of 20 individuals (out of the 52) were flown to Spain.
Read MoreChanges will continue slowly and cautiously – but they won’t stop. In the economic terrain they have already broken through the rigid limits imposed in 1968. The national debate will be on how to save socialism, and therefore there will be no political reforms.
Read MoreThere is a middle-aged woman standing close to the door and a middle-aged man standing behind her. As we get to the second bus stop, people almost assault the bus and come close to killing each other to get on. The man is now crushed against the woman and soaking her with his sweat. It’s inevitable and they both know it.
Rush hour bus ride. Photo: Caridad
They’ve gotten used to it, as we all have. He is being crushed by someone else, who in turn is being crushed by another person, and so on.
Read More“The Garden and Gallery of Endearment” is the name Hector Gallo Portieles gave to his outdoor art exhibition of installations and sculptures, and a gallery located within the walls of his apartment in the Alamar community, on the eastern edge of Havana. In these displays, he transforms into works of art —sculpture, poetry and philosophy— a collection of thrown away objects.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro asked U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid a nuclear war, which would break out as a consequence of the conflict with Iran. The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution has dedicated a series of Reflections, published by the island’s state-run press, to analyzing Washington’s current conflict with Teheran and North Korea.
Read MoreRepresentatives of Cuba, Brazil and Haiti will assess until next Friday the possibilities of cooperation with that Caribbean nation, devastated by an earthquake last January 12, during the fourth tripartite meeting being held in the Latin American School of Medicine in the Cuban capital. The meeting is emphasizing the training of human resources in the area of public health.
Read MoreCuba’s Border Patrol and the US Coast Guard worked in coordination to abort the kidnapping of a vessel in which four persons from the island were attempting to illegally reach the United States after taking over the vessel at the Tarará Nautical Base, east of the Cuban capital. The kidnappers and the vessel were returned in compliance with the Migration Agreements in force.
Read MoreCardinal Jaime Ortega will meet with Arturo Valenzuela, U.S. assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, according to press reports in Washington. Ortega traveled to the U.S. capital to receive the Gaudium et Spes Prize of the Order of the Knights of Columbus.
Read MoreFormer President Fidel Castro presented the book “Por todos los caminos de la Sierra: La Victoria estratégica” (All roads lead to the Sierra: The Strategic victory) which compiles the story of the offensive of the army of Fulgencio Batista against the guerrilla forces he led in the summer of 1958. The events covered were the prelude to the counter offensive that would take Castro to power in January 1959.
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