Esther Marina del Sol Viamonte owns this property, in Villa Clara province, which, with Lisvany Garcia Diaz’s crucial help (a young man who graduated in visual arts but is a botanist by passion), they manage to self-finance and earn something from by selling plant species.
Read MoreDespite the lighting trial of the supposed murderer of Brazilian medical student Reyneia Lima, there are numerous unsolved questions that the prosecution prefers not to investigate. Two of those are how the victim’s car disappeared in thin air and that the boyfriend who took her to the hospital is also missing.
Read MoreOne of the first drones that Alejandro Perez and Alfredo Ureta used to film in Cuba was designed and built by some guys at the model airplanes club with their own hands and flown by Marcos Casamayor. Seven years later, local drones are no longer a native or primitive product; the national market now has a range of models available, especially Inspires and Phantoms…
Read MoreAt least 135 doctors, paramedics and nurses who assisted protestors wounded during protests against the Nicaraguan government have been summarily fired from the Public Health System, two medical organizations denounced today.
Read MoreNicaraguan singer-songwriter Carlos Mejia Godoy went into exile in Costa Rica after receiving death threats from alleged associates of Daniel Ortega’s government. “I had to leave without telling anyone (…) I was recommended to leave the country as soon as possible,”
Read MoreThe draft of the new Cuban Constitution will enter its civil consultation phase on August 13th. To facilitate this, 600,000 printed copies went on sale as of Tuesday and it will be available in digital format in the country’s official media as well as here on Havana Times.
Read MoreIt doesn’t matter whether you’re going on a short trip, an official mission, going somewhere for a couple of months or leaving for good… Once a Cuban sets foot in an international airport a series of psychological mechanisms are triggered in their brain which will accompany them the whole time they are outside the country.
Read More“Here I am…, sadly entrenched in my easel”, says M. Victor, a Nicaraguan artist whose routine of drawing portraits has radically changed since the protests started last April 18th. He stopped doing portraits of happy people to instead portray “the rawness” of the repression Nicaraguans are living.
Read MoreThe artistic protest gathering was originally scheduled for the Rubenia underpass, but due to a police siege involving at least 40 agents, the organizers decided to take the activity to another place. Beginning at one in the afternoon, hundreds enjoyed a musical presentation with the participation of singers like Gaby Baca, Mario Ruiz, Carlos and Luis Mejia Godoy, and other
Read MoreAt least ten doctors, twelve nurses and 13 medical staff employees at the Oscar Danilo Rosales Arguello School Hospital (Heodra), in Leon, were arbitrarily fired by Judith Lejarza Vargas, the hospital’s director, who admitted that the dismissals were for “political” reasons.
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