“I don’t like folk music, I like Frank Delgado,” a young man standing by the entrance to the Fine Arts Museum said. Others close to him wondered how a line of people for a Frank Delgado concert could be so orderly.
Read MoreWhen Raúl Castro repeats, over and again, that his demands for the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States include the return of the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, he is asking not just for a piece of land 117.6 square kilometers that belongs to us.
Read MoreCuban Vice-President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura urged university students to master new technologies and the English language in order to become well-rounded professionals after graduation.
Read More“When all is said and done, the State has the power and sets down the law. I can come here with Special Forces and put a stop to all this, even if people don’t agree. We can do that and not a thing happens”; said Mr. Fraga, Chair of the People’s Power Council of the municipality of Contramaestre.
Read MoreThe sculptor had planned to arrive incognito, like a regular gallery-goer with her hands extremely clean and showed well-painted fake nails. No one would have suspected she was the author of the works on display. (9 photos)
Read MoreThe mega project to build an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua is being touted by the government of Daniel Ortega as the answer to development for the Central American country. At the same time warning signals come not only from environmentalists, social activists, farmers and economists, but also archeologists.
Read MoreThe new season starts on August 29th with an inaugural match between last year’s finalists, Ciego de Avila (the champion) and the Isle of Youth. Many questions abound on the future of Cuban baseball.
Read MoreWhen the aerial photos of Cuba taken by Lithuanian Marius Jovaisa began to be published on the Internet, we saw more than one expression of wounded, nationalist pride bemoaning the fact a foreigner had come along and captured those images before Cubans could.
Read MoreIn one of Havana’s poor neighborhoods, where a bit of spiritual uplifting is most needed, puppeteer Adalett Perez Pupo (Holguin, Cuba, 1947), continues to do his missionary work.
Read MoreThe bags had been packed when a new order arrived. “We’ve been informed no one has to leave. The problem of Angola’s debt to Cuba has been solved,” informs a Cuban health worker based in Angola.
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