It’s 10 at night on Friday, March 6. Two young men standing outside the entrance to Havana’s Salon Rosado cabaret ask the bouncer who will be playing that night. The man simply replies: “They’ll be playing this weird music today.”
Read More“Building Bridges in Physics” is the name that the Cuban Physics Society (SCF) intends on giving to a conference that will take place in 2015 to strengthen relations with its colleagues in the USA.
Read MoreThe establishment of maritime routes between the US and Cuba seems feasible today: it has been approved by the two governments and it is the express interest of several shipping companies. If such plans came to fruition, travel & shipping prices could drop substantially.
Read MoreCooperation in matters of health and medical research can be one of the most solid roads to rapprochement between two countries that are still very distant. For more than 20 years, a US organization seeks to generate synergies in a sphere where both nations show remarkable results.
Read MoreNobody knew how the system worked. Municipal governments were not prepared; mistaking cooperatives for local development initiatives, explains Alfonso Larrea. “All that slowed down a lot of people, because nobody moved forward.”
Read MoreRegardless of where they live or what ideology they subscribe to, many Cuban women shoulder a heavy burden of responsibility and work owing to the island’s widespread poverty, the difficulties involved in leaving the country and settling on foreign soil and the deeply-rooted male chauvinism of contemporary Cuban society.
Read MoreCuban agent Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, released from a US prison through a presidential pardon granted him by Barack Obama following long negotiations with Havana, has compared his espionage activities in the USA to those of American agents who infiltrate the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
Read MoreAn epidemic of enormous proportions has broken out a few kilometers away from Cuba and the United States – a tragedy the UN is comparing to the Ebola outbreak in Africa. n Haiti, cholera has already caused 8,813 deaths, and as many as 725,608 people are thought to have been infected since 2010.
Read MoreAt one end of the debate surrounding the potential benefits of using freeware and open-source programs in Cuba, we find a fairly reduced and largely unknown group of people who have been working with these programs for years.
Read MoreNews about the seriousness of the drought comes from every direction of the island and reveals not only a climate change but also serious harm to the national economy. We take a look at the problem with a focus on Ciego de Avila province.
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