The Cuban public now has available a document called “Dietary Guidelines. It deals with scientific knowledge related to nutritional requirements and food composition, explained as practical messages to help people with the selection and consumption of healthy foods.
Read MoreA curious and interesting report by journalist Marais Suarez was featured on the national television news recently. In it she interviewed dentistry specialists who explained the need and importance of people replacing their toothbrushes three or four times a year.
Read MoreLast night when I was leaving work and heading home, I ran into some friends – a married couple who I hadn’t seen in years. They had been my neighbors but they moved and we hadn’t seen each other since, until they reappeared that rainy night.
Read MoreToday Eduardo has spent almost 20 years cutting people’s hair. The money he earns, around 100 CUCs per month (about $110 USD), is enough to take care of himself and to maintain his sick parents.
Read MoreMaritza is a woman who has lived her life with great intensity. At sixteen she was already dating a man who was over thirty, and no one asked why a man so much older.
Read More“There’s nothing more delightful than rummaging through drawers, you can find anything,” said my aunt. And it was true.
Read MoreI met Alexis Jardines on a university campus. He was a philosophy professor and later I enrolled to try to become one too. His theories seemed to me back then to be so brilliant on one side and so opaque on the other. I mentioned that to him one time but he disagreed.
Read MoreIn the former home of the Cuban poet Dulce Maria Loynaz, now an institution which bears her name, I was amazed during my visit there a few days ago.
Read MoreIn Havana’s Santos Suarez neighborhood, a monthly publication has been founded that seeks to make the daily lives of its inhabitants visible in print. The first issue has already been distributed to local residents.
Read MoreGadhafi was killed in his native town by rebel troops. After several months of bloody struggle, devastation, and material and human losses, the former Libyan leader was finished off. He who for more than four decades governed that African country died at the hands of his own people.
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