The Uruguayan film La vida útil won the first Coral Prize at the 32nd International New Latin American Film Festival, which concluded yesterday in the Cuban capital. The film tells the story of a man laid off due to the economic crisis who finds support in cinema to survive.
Read MoreThe Cuban population will be affected by the economic adjustments begun by the government at least during 2011 and 2012, but “in 2013 I have no doubts the benefits will start to be seen,” affirmed Joaquín Infante, National Economy Prize winner. “We have no other alternative but to rectify so many things,” said the expert, who recognized mistakes made in the management of Cuba’s economy over the last five decades.
Read MoreHere is the cultural calendar for the rest of December which includes the Havana Jazz Plaza Festival from Dec. 16-19. The calendar put out by the Cuba Absolutely website includes happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreUS agent Alan Gross “violated Cuban laws, national sovereignty, committed crimes that in the United States are very, very punishable,” said Cuban parliament speaker Ricardo Alarcón in statements to the press in this capital. Gross has been imprisoned on the island since December 2009, accused of espionage but to date without being formally charged or tried.
Read MoreChina could extend to other regions of Cuba cooperation in rice cultivation, which has been effective in the eastern province of Ganma, Liu Yuqin, ambassador of the Asian country on the island, affirmed during a tour of the country’s central region. The diplomat also mentioned the possibility of attracting Chinese tourists to the hotels on the keys on the northern coast of Cuba.
Read MoreCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez considered that “the industrialized countries have to assume the obligations that link, quantify and are most ambitious in the reduction of their emissions” of greenhouse gases to face climate change, when speaking at the Conference on this subject being held in Cancun, Mexico.
Read MoreThe U.S. House of Representatives rejected the handing over of funds for the transfer of prisoners at the Guantánamo detention center to the United States, where they would be tried for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the Washington media reported. This vote represents, in fact, the prohibition of shutting down the prison installed on Cuban soil, one of President Barack Obama’s promises.
Read MoreThe 2010-2011 sugar harvest began with the start of grinding at two sugar mills in western Cuba. Thirty-nine sugar factories will be working in this campaign, four less than the previous harvest, the worse in more than a century.
Read MoreAnger and/or understanding of parents, foster homes, some caring, some unbearable, orphanages that included the type of sexual abuse that has rocked the Catholic Church with scandal in recent years, marks this large group of Cubans trying to put the pieces of their lives together.
Read MoreAccording to Fidel Castro, the multilateral agency “not only has to fulfil the elementary duty of fighting for the reconstruction and development of Haiti,” but also “to mobilize the necessary resources to eradicate” that disease, reported IPS.
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