Xiomara Reyes, a principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, is returning to her native Cuba for performances in the 22nd Havana International Ballet Festival, which begins on Wednesday, October 28th, and will continue through November 7th.
Read MoreBasically, its the four of us and all those who feel good about what happens here inside. There are children, neighbors, family members, friends who drop in frequently or appear after many years. All those who enjoy participating come and go as they please. It’s as free as that.
Read More“In 1997 I joined the ranks of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). While its members are obligated to report any misdeed, during those years people resuscitated a concept from prior to the 1959 revolution: that of the “chivato” (informer), and informers back then were always given beatings.”
Read MoreA couple of months ago I met “Marielys”. As I walked with her to the bus stop, she told me something that almost knocked me on my butt. She said, “I quit a job where I earned 475 pesos a month plus a bag of toiletries (with soap, deodorant, detergent, sanitary napkins, razors, etc.) for another job where I earn only 355 pesos and don’t get a toiletry bag”
Read MoreThe cultivation in several Cuban provinces of genetically modified maize, obtained by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, endangers biodiversity and contradicts the government’s own agricultural production plan, warns Cuban agro-ecologist Fernando Funes-Monzote.
Read MorePolice in Ecuador rioted Thursday, demanding the repeal of a public services law passed by Congress the day before, which would end the practice of granting soldiers and police medals and bonuses with each promotion, and would extend from five to seven years the period between promotions.
Read More“The Cuban Five should have been returned to Cuba shortly after their arrest, as is the custom when foreigners are arrested in the United States on missions for their home countries and their activities here caused no harm,” said Leonard Weinglass.
Read MoreThe use and application of computers in the most varied spheres over the last twenty years —even in the most unimagined activities— has had a tremendous impact on the lives of people around the world. In Cuba, an underdeveloped socialist country, this process has had its own characteristics.
Read MoreEven today, many years after it was proved effective, the Cuban vaccine against meningitis B is still ignored by industrialized countries, whose medical literature usually states there is no immunization against that strain of the disease.
Read MoreHow can the scales of the Cuban caiman be turned into feathers? In Amerindian mythology, such a transformation is indispensable for the crocodile to fly. GECNA (the Our America Cultural Studies Group) aspires to defy not the gravity on the island, but something that is even more restricting: the individual ego.
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