The Cuban medical contingent deployed in Haiti started up six rehabilitation wards for the victims of the January 12 earthquake, a type of healthcare service that did not exist in that Caribbean country, reported the local press. Up to now the island’s personnel, accompanied by students from Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), have treated more than 50,000 persons.
Read MoreThe best option for travel from Varadero to Havana is, in fact, by bus using the Cuban company Viazul. Buses are tourist-quality (with an on-board toilet) and are also the most economical way to travel between Cuba’s main urban centres and tourist areas around the country.
Read MoreCuba’s chess senstion Leinier Dominguez finished eighth in the tough Wijk aan Zee 2010 tournament in Holland that ended Sunday. The winner was 19-year-old Norweigian Margnus Carlsen, considered before hand as the player to beat. Leinier drew in his final match against second place finisher Alexei Sirvov, ending with 6.5 points.
Read MoreThe government-announced readjustments of expenditures and its “lack of definition in terms of perspective as well as means” in the face of the crisis could lead Cuba to an economic collapse, said Boris Moreno, priest and master in economic sciences, in an article published by the magazine Palabra Nueva of the Archdiocese of Havana. According to the economist, the state policy is “kidnapped by the ideological recentralization that wants to maintain at all costs an order of things that suffocates the country.”
Read MoreWomen represent 54 per cent of the persons linked to the scientific sector in Cuba, in which 71,000 persons work, the majority of them with a higher education, the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) reported. The island has 210 research, technological and innovation centers and areas.
Read MoreThe Cuban Los Van Van popular salsa music band brought together some 4,000 persons (near 90% capacity) at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, the United States, where they gave their second concert of the preamble of their upcoming U.S. tour. Calls were made by the band leaders to build bridges between the Cuban community in exile and the residents on the island.
Read MoreA distinguished Cuban intellectual who resides in New York wrote to me disappointed by a well-known “verbal reformist” —a comrade of days gone by— who spent several minutes at a forum in Pittsburgh explaining that the only obstacle that his fellow Cubans face in traveling is obtaining a visa from the destination country.
Read MoreOverlooking Havana’s Plaza de Armas stands the Hotel Santa Isabel. On the top floor is the watchtower, from which one can appreciate Havana Bay, or the former fishing villages of Regla and Casa Blanca, the Castillo de la Real Fuerza colonial fortress and the baroque Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, which today is the city museum. (21 photos)
Read MoreFather and son jazz pianists Bebo and Chucho Valdes have won a grammy award for the Best Latin Jazz Album at the ceremony taking place Sunday night in Los Angeles. The award winning album is titled “Juntos Para Siempre” (Together forever).
Read MoreAn extensive feature article appears in the UK’s Daily Mail online on Sunday written by Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol about her recent bicycle tour of Cuba. The article starts out with Thatcher’s dilemma about buying some shoelaces in shortage prone Cuba and goes on to recount her trip that included the Varadero Beach Resort, the far western rural community of Viñales and Havana the capital.
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