Even though a large number of establishments used during the last half a century by the state-owned food service sector were leased out or managed by cooperatives, over 50% still remain under government control. Repairing a state-run establishments is a lucrative business, they allocate materials and a lot of them end up far from the place where the remodeling work is taking place.
Read MoreFor 13 seasons, Yuliesky Gourriel was unsuccessfully looking for the crown in Cuba’s National Baseball League. However, in his first full season in Major League Baseball, he won the champion ring with the Houston Astros.
Read MoreThe declassified documents reveal that self-harm attacks were a part of the US strategy against Cuba. They ome at a very interesting time when Washington is accusing Cuba of attacking US diplomats at its embassy in Havana with a fantasy sonic weapon.
Read MoreVery little is known about the time Che spent in Miami. There’s not very much to know anyway. An accidental and forced stop, while he was traveling back to Argentina to get his medicine degree. The delay extended further than expected and Ernesto went around and around in a foreign city, where a language was spoken that the young student hadn’t mastered and who was still waiting for his destiny.
Read MoreToday, over 900 children study at Cuba’s ballet academies, which are a huge talent pool for national dance and also for some of the world’s most renowned companies, where Cubans have shone, believed to be the “21st century” Russians according to critics.
Read MoreNew forms of economic management that have become established in Cuba need greater expression, recognition and legal support and coordination with state companies, participants at a workshop about the subject on October 20th in Havana agreed.
Read MoreA wall made out of palm tree boards and a table. This is the only thing left standing in Iris Leidy Cedeno’s home; the rest – that is to say, the other palm tree boarded walls and some cardboard partitions – came tumbling down as soon as Hurricane Irma began to sweep along Cuba’s northern coast.
Read MoreThe United States and Soviet Union were never so close to a nuclear face-off as they were in October 1962, when the US discovered Soviet missiles on the island. “The decision to install missiles was the Soviets’ initiative to deter a US invasion,” Tomas Diez Acosta, a retired military man and the best expert on the “October Crisis” in Cuba, told dpa news.
Read MoreThere are people who reached the reforms process at the same time as the rest of us but they came with certain advantages: former high-ranking officials from important state-owned companies, with important connections, expertise and know-how.
Read MoreI recently had the privilege of visiting Cardenas, a few weeks after Hurricane Irma swept through to the north of this city in the Matanzas province. I walked down some of its streets and talked to locals… (10 photos)
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