Despite one of the worst levels of Internet connectivity in the world, Cuba continues to take shy steps towards the digital world. Be it Fifty Shades of Grey, now a US blockbuster, or Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura’s bestseller The Man Who Loved Dogs, informal book downloads are today swelling the databases of Cuba’s still scarce but coveted e-readers.
Read MoreThe US $102,000 that should have gone to Cuba’s Pinar del Rio team, champions of the Caribbean Series 2015, will not be collected by the players. And no bonuses will go to the four Cubans on the tournament’s All-Star team, prizes that they won fairly at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The big political excuse used so far by the US institutions to avoid paying Cuban teams was that the money would end up in the hands of the government, not in the hands of the players, something no longer true.
Read MoreThe images are disconcerting. In the same place where pro-government hordes commonly harass Cuba’s Ladies in White, in front of the movement’s headquarters in Centro Habana, we see these women yelling slogans that recall the reprisals perpetrated during the dark days of the Mariel exodus.
Read MoreWith his own, personal infantry tank, Jesus Leiva is most probably the only Cuban civilian who owns a war machine in Cuba. He keeps it parked outside his house, letting troops of children climb its belts, hang from its 75-mm cannon and enter and exit the vehicle through the hatch.
Read MoreThe 24th International Book Fair has started in Cuba. Havana’s La Cabaña fortress is again full of people, food and books. Many are surprised by the large number of people who attend the fair.(23 photos)
Read MoreOne hears a broad range of comments while walking around Havana’s La Cabaña fortress, the main venue of Cuba’s International Book Fair. Regardless, there are many options for the public at this year’s date with literature.
Read MoreDeputy Defense Minister Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov said “We are talking about helping our ships when they are on long-range missions, providing them with water, food, recreation and, of course, ship maintenance if necessary.”
Read MoreThe National Endowment for Democracy is a major recipient of U.S. government funds for channeling to democracy programs in Cuba. The leading recipients in their latest report were: Cuban Democratic Directorate, Grupo Internacional para la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Cuba, Diario de Cuba, Cubanet News and Clovek v tisni, o.p.s. – People in Need.
Read MoreCuban USB drives – the people’s Internet – are now carrying the graphic details of the massive police operation conducted some weeks ago, when the well-known reggaeton music promoter Gilbert Man (a Cuban citizen holding ID card number 86060806804, issued to Gilberto Martinez Suarez on March 14, 2014) was arrested.
Read MoreWhile being arrested during an armed police raid and the meticulous search of his mansion in the neighborhood of Guanabacoa, Cuban reggaeton musician Gilberto Martinez Suarez told officers he had only 60 thousand dollars to live on in Cuba. The case of Martinez (stage name Gilbert Man) made headlines and news in Miami at the beginning of the year, after the police crackdown in his mansion was made known. The detainee is a fugitive from US justice who had left a wife and little girl behind in the United States and fled to Cuba to evade charges of credit card fraud for some US $150,000 in stores such as Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us.
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