In Sabanilla, when the weather’s good and the sun has almost reached the meridian, one can make out the towers of the three sugar refineries that Camaguey’s municipality of Santa Cruz del Sur once had.
Read MoreA Cuban company manager tells me that the government spends US $5 million in used clothing every year, purchasing the highest-quality products sold around the world. Cuban stores, however, only sell the worst-quality garments. So why is that?
Read MoreDespite their incipient nature, the current, more flexible diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States have had multiple repercussions on the island, and one of them has been the increase in famous people interested in visiting the country.
Read More“It’s been six years, and on October 23, we registered our organization’s thousandth member. We have chapters in Holguin, Ciego de Avila, Matanzas and Mayabeque. We belong to the Jose Marti Cultural Association and count on the invaluable support of the City Historian, Eusebio Leal, who offered us this beautiful botanical garden. One day Cuba will come to be known as the “bonsai island,” you’ll see.
Read MoreThe graffiti artist jailed for 10 months after he painted the names “Fidel” and “Raúl” on two pigs said today he isn’t backing down. “Art is my life and I can’t breathe without a life,” said Danilo Maldonado, also known as “El Sexto.”
Read MoreIf we could get an exact picture of the number of Cubans leaving the country to reside abroad, we would probably be able to conclude, without fear of contradiction, that the island is slowly bleeding to death. Young people, those who ought to be the nation’s future, are leaving us.
Read MoreSome months ago, ETECSA, Cuba’s telecommunications monopoly, set up a number of pay-for Wi-Fi hot spots around the country, allegedly aimed at greater public Internet use. This has resulted in incomes above what the company had predicted.
Read MoreThe beginning of the 2015 MLB postseason has brought a lot of thrills for Cubans from the bats of Kendrys Morales (Kansas City), Yoennis Cespedes (NY Mets) and Jorge Soler of the Chicago Cubs, the subject of this article. The Cubs outfielder has managed to do what no other Cuban has done in major league history in his first three playoff games as a rookie, batting 1.000 with nine consecutive at-bats without recording an out.
Read MorePublic pay-for Wi-Fi services in Cuba continue to make news and we are starting to see both the marvelous inventiveness of Cubans and the beginning of illegal practices arise. Let’s start with the latter.
Read MoreAt the close of September, Cuban baseball broke a new record: 102 players have left the island in the course of nine months. “The reasons many players are leaving Cuba now have to do with money,” Ben Adler, from Baseball America, told OnCuba. “Cuban players are seeing the contracts that their former teammates are signing with Major League teams and they believe their lives can change by signing with an MLB team.”
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