It’s surprising that a country that lacks the legal and financial resources to protect animals was the recent recipient of 146 exotic mammals donated by Namibia from nature reserves in that country. The project is called “Noah’s Ark II,” and the animals begin arriving in October.
Read MoreAn intelligent initiative has begun to bear fruit for the ill-treated bus passenger from the Alamar neighborhood. This involves a bus route, formerly known as the cuarentiñas (“forty little ones,” because the fare used to be forty centavos, or about two cents USD).
Read MoreThe shoring up of buildings for years while waiting some construction miracle to return them to their former glory was a procedure that was first put in use by the revolutionary government in the early 1970s in the Old Havana district. (9 photos)
Read MoreI know that envy is a harmful feeling for human beings and that when someone is envious they suffer due to the accomplishments of another person. They want everything that the other person has, without thinking about the good they already have in their own personal life.
Read MoreThe question “What is The Revolution” in Cuba could have been the title of Rebeca Chavez’s latest documentary “Luneta No.1.”, which premiered recently in Havana.
Read MoreI heard an interview with a young musician on a television program where he said, “We who have had the possibility of traveling.” This made me think about something that’s almost taken for granted here: For Cubans, traveling (like many other things) is only a possibility.
Read MoreMy ceiba tree died for the medical office that is falling apart these days. Every day I see how it is losing a window or a piece of roofing is falling off, without the San Agustín community doing anything to save it.
Read MoreThere’s a rumor circulating, outside of the newspapers. They say it was discovered that a doctor at the Calixto Garcia Hospital had a private clinic for cosmetic surgery, using materials taken from the hospital to treat his patients.
Read MoreA Census is the official lists of the inhabitants or citizens of a state, as well as their assets or properties. A rather unusual census is being carried out in Cuba right now, one in sotto voce (a hushed voice).
Read MoreA non-practicing Catholic, rocker, photographer (non-artist), irreverent and somewhat pessimistic, are some of the definitions attributed to the personality of Gonzalo Gonzalez Borges (1959).
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