Our 2019 Cuba Photo Contest is now officially open for sending in your entries. The 2018 contest brought together entries from 109 amateur and professional photographers. Now, we are happy to announce the 11th edition of the event.
Read MoreFelicia Morales and Mariela Salazar were homemakers until the small La Ignacita factory gave them unexpected work, as part of a global collaboration project that will extend to more Cuban municipalities. “The income I receive from this job has improved our family’s financial situation,” Salazar told IPS Cuba’s editorial team, who lives near the factory with her two daughters and grandchildren.
Read More“Free WIFI?”, some people ask when entering Juanky’s Pan. “No!”, shop assistants reply. However, they then explain that Juanky’s Club has its own internal social network, which was created a year and a half ago so that users could socialize while going to a local business.
Read MoreIn Cuba, the education system has many problems. First of all, there’s the exodus of teachers to better-paying jobs and, as a result, too many students in a classroom. There is also a shortage of educational materials and notable differences in students’ social status. Parents with the money to do so find themselves resorting to private tutors, creating more work for mothers.
Read MorePromoting works under the concept “Art Brut”, Riera Studio’s independent project seeks to encourage the creation and study of an art expression in Cuba that still faces reluctance, the artists which are normally ignored because they have no formal education in the arts.
Read MoreOn March 11, we commemorate the 8th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Japanese government has not figured out how to touch or test the irradiated cores in the three crippled reactors, which continue to contaminate water around the site of the melt down. The government does not know where it will put that radioactive material once it can find a way to move it.
Read MoreBefore the more recent months acting as a false witness, Captain “Leonardo” was ordered to repress the citizenry. He knows firsthand how the paramilitaries were recruited and armed. Where did the weapons come from? Many experts pointed out that only the army had access to these weapons. However, our source contributes previously unknown information.
Read MoreIt’s March 8th and they want us to believe that we, Cuban women, have almost everything. But, that’s not true. There’s still a lot to be done in our country for us to achieve real gender equality. Cuban women need information, they need to know that being a feminist isn’t a bad thing and that it isn’t an extreme or eccentric position to have.
Read MoreIt is time to rise up and fight a long neglected taboo: menstruation. United Nations human rights experts called on the international community to break taboos around menstruation, noting its impacts on women and girls’ human rights. [The issues involved are rarely a concern of male leaders and persist in different degrees throughout Latin America including Cuba.]
Read MoreCaptain “Leonardo” has had to testify about events he did not witness in ten political trials, in which they condemned as “terrorists” citizens who participated in the protests against the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
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