The Cuban Council of Elder Priests of the Ifa (Yoruba religion) published their “Letter of the Year 2015” on January 2nd. The annual message is of great interest to believers of the Yoruba religion and is also widely read by the general population on the island and Cubans abroad.
Read MoreBelow, readers will find 12 highly important events that made headlines and had a significant impact on Cuba and Cubans during 2014. These were selected on the basis of their impact on the country’s political, economic and cultural spheres.
Read MoreThe “artistic” performance that Tania Bruguera had planned to stage on Tuesday (Dec. 30) in Revolution Square was the first of many foreseen attempts to derail the process of normalization of diplomatic relations between the USA and Cuba, announced by Washington and Havana on Dec. 17.
Read MoreThe song is inspired by the daily routines of Cuba’s working class. The neighbor, the singer, the woman who asks for a lift at the street corner, all are faces of the same thing: different ways of facing up to the need of earning one’s daily bread.
Read MoreHers is a story that could well inspire a film with a happy ending about the benefits of the Internet and social networks in the global village our world has become, set in Cuba, which is only timidly connected to the web.
Read MoreFor the third straight year of split-season league play, Cuba held its nationally televised player dispersal draft on Christmas night, this time with a new wrinkle. For this year’s National Series #54 edition the mid-year selection of reinforcement players from the eight eliminated teams was expanded from five to seven rounds and thus also from the original 40 to a new total of 56 ballplayers.
Read MoreUSAID operations in Cuba were like spoiled apples that made everything around them rot. They turned the opposition into “mercenaries” on the empire’s payroll and government critics into the “naïve” who fell into enemy traps…
Read MoreHere’s a story some are calling “diplomaculate conception.” The wife of one of the Cuban Five, just released from prison after 16 years, is expecting a baby in just two weeks thanks to some unusual diplomatic moves. (Video)
Read MoreIn September of 2013, Cuban athletes were authorized to sign sports contracts abroad. More than a year has elapsed since Cuba’s Official Gazette published the measure, which was considered groundbreaking for Cuban sports. Its practical results, however, have left much to be desired.
Read MoreRolando Sarraff Trujillo, a man hitherto unknown to the world became news last week after the United States and Cuba reached a historical agreement to re-establish diplomatic relations, DPA reported.
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