Cuba’s most famous salsa band Los Van Van perform in concert tonight at the James L. Knight Center in Miami. In statements to a local Miami radio station the band’s director Juan Formell said the group is willing to share the stage with Cuban musicians living off the island.
Read MoreThe Cuban Ministry of Interior claims to have made over 25,000 inspections at State offices and businesses during 2009, reported the Cuban News Agency on Saturday. The ministry said that 7,059 fines were issued but did not go into any details as to the extent or seriousness of the violations.
Read MoreOn the night of each January 27, the day before the birth date of Jose Marti, Cuba’s National Hero, university students carry out a torch light march beginning from the expansive stairway of the University of Havana. The first march took place in 1953 on the hundredth anniversary of Marti’s birth. Participating back then were some of the young people who were planning the assault on the Moncada and Cespedes garrisons in Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo, which would take place six months later. (23 photos)
Read MoreThe number of patients in the Havana Psychiatric Hospital who died due to the cold weather in mid January could be as many as 50, affirmed Elizardo Sánchez, president of the opposition’s Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Up to now the Cuban authorities have only acknowledged the death of 26 persons.
Read MoreThe Sundance Film Festival in Utah is down to its final two days and the film “Memories of Overdevelopment” by Cuban Miguel Coyula has its fifth and final showing on Saturday evening.
Read MoreRussian pop singer Leonid Agutin and Cuban Latin jazz flautist and band leader Orlando “Maraca” Valle joined forces to deliver a unique concert at Havana Cathedral Plaza. They enjoyed the company of Buena Vista Social Club diva Omara Portuondo and tres guitar master Pancho Amat. (29 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuban feature length Chamaco, by filmmaker Juan Carlos Cremata, will make its international debut in the Miami International Film Festival, to be held in that U.S. city March 5-14, announced Tiziana Finzi, the event’s artistic director. The film is about the connection between poverty and sexual exploitation in contemporary Cuban society.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will propose a new immigration accord to the United States when representatives hold their second meeting on February 19 in Havana, announced Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. The current agreement was reached in the height of the rafters’ crisis in the summer of 1994
Read MoreCuban virtuoso jazz pianist Chucho Valdes will record a special song titled Haiti volverá (Haiti will Return) dedicated to the victims of the earthquake that devastated the capital of the Caribbean country on January 12. Chucho agreed to donate the rights to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help with the recovery effort.
Read MoreA US government agent jailed in Cuba for distributing illegal electronic equipment and the Cuban Five jailed in the US for conspiracy to commit espionage may axe any hopes of a significant change in the adversarial relations of a half century between the two neighboring countries.
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