Medication and rosaries instead of demonstrations and protests. The nearly 200 pilgrims traveling from Miami to Cuba to see Pope Francis represent a new face of Cuba’s émigré community, one that does not see His Holiness’ visit to the island as cause for division but as an opportunity for reconciliation.
Read MoreOlga Castañeda has been rehearsing religious hymns every morning at Havana’s Revolution Square, a stone’s throw away from the well-known relief sculpture of Che Guevara. On Sunday, the retired university professor and practicing Catholic will be able to see another Pope up close.
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe that two years have gone by since the new legislation allowing Cuban athletes to sign contracts abroad was announced and that relatively few of those contracts have actually been signed.
Read MoreAccording to Fox News, the “most dangerous man on the planet” will be visiting Cuba in the coming days. For them, Francis is an incendiary Pope who travels around the world condemning capitalism for its inequalities, injustice and consumerism.
Read MoreClearly, invoking 0.0012 grams of marihuana residue as criminal evidence following a meticulous search is ludicrous. Odalis Guerra was subsequently evicted from her home in Contramestre, a municipality of Santiago de Cuba.
Read MoreThe Cuban revolution has a debt with the capital, where residences have severely deteriorated over time; the process of building new houses is slow and the rebuilding of homes in regular or critical condition is sluggish.
Read MoreThe U.S. government wants to hire entertainers who would produce “uniquely funny, ironic, satirical and entertaining” comedy shows targeting Cuban officials, politicians and others on the island. Proposals are due at 3 p.m. Sept. 14.
Read MoreTo the American popular eye, pre-revolutionary Cuba was the island of sin, a society consumed by the illnesses of gambling, the Mafia, and prostitution. Prominent US intellectuals echoed that view. Even in 1969, when Cuban reality had changed drastically, Susan Sontag described Cuba as “a country known mainly for dance, music, prostitutes, cigars, abortions, resort life, and pornographic movies.”
Read MoreIt’s the last day of an expedition that gathered Cuban and US scientists for the first time, under the watchful gaze of the cameras of Shark, a Discovery Channel series. Luck and experience have come together and a male, 8-foot-long, longfin mako shark is fitted with a PAT satellite tag, 18 miles east of Cojimar.
Read MoreThe increasing number of websites dedicated to classifieds or “Lists” of offers and demands in dozens of service and product categories is advertising’s most popular appearance. For now we’re going to have a look at the most popular sites, describing each one of them and their establishment, in the cases where dates are given, objectives and other details.
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