The Havana Times Cuba Photo Contest 2018 is now officially open for sending in your entries. The 2017 contest brought together entries from 144 amateur and professional photographers. Read how you can participate this year.
Read MoreI’m sure many Cubans remember the sad end of the thriving private sector in the late ‘90s. During that time of the so-called “Special Period” crisis, the dynamic boom of entrepreneurs languished between restrictions and the State’s regulatory authorities’ excessive control.
Read MoreLia is a young woman who has recently moved to my neighborhood, on the east side of Guantanamo city. She arrived with her husband Rafael, a young farmer who used to work the land and is now a clothes seller.
Read More“The Government has placed its bets on destroying us, but the Movement has high principles,” said Francisca Ramirez.
Read MoreHeydi waited at the entrance to her home for the group that came on Fridays. She already had everything ready for them in the pool room on the second floor – the business that has been a means of survival for her and her family for the past five years.
Read MoreRoberto Rivas, the head of Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council, has been missing from the public agenda for over a month now, ever since the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned him for fraud and corruption through the U.S. Global Magnitsky Act.
Read MoreG. is a 74-year-old woman who has been looking after her aunt-in-law for the past 12 years, who suffers from dementia. Even though G. has two children, she lives by herself with her aunt and can only spend her time looking after her.
Read MoreA man with long hair, a full beard and wire-rimmed glasses is preparing to begin a baptism ceremony. He’s not a conventional priest, with lengthy sermons and heavy solemnity.
Read MoreLuis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, recreate through a fiction piece, a supposed political testament found with the last reflections of Fidel Castro about his government, the Revolution and the future of Cuba.
Read MoreIn Cuba ordinary citizens don’t know about basic laws and their fundamental rights and this leads them to being in a state of socio-political inertia which works based on the principle of a spiral of silence. If the slightest raising of voices is uncomfortable for Cuban authorities, just imagine what a loud cry is.
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