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Cuba Travel Insurance Info. Forthcoming

The cubatravel.cu website has the latest information available —albeit incomplete— for visitors who don’t have recognized insurance coverage when they arrive in Cuba.

Cuba Takes Earthquake Precautions

Cuban authorities are distributing more than 50,000 copies of the tabloid “What to do in case of an earthquake” in the city of Santiago de Cuba. The goal is to “reduce vulnerabilities and correct the conduct of the population in case of a major earthquake,” Bladimir Moreno, director of the National Seismology Research Center.

Any Given Sunday in Havana

Sunday I went for a drive around the city. Lenin Park and the Escaleras de Jaruco were packed with people. In the food-stands were roast pork and fish (all sold in national currency); all around was music playing, people drinking rum and beer, and children taking turns to ride the horses.

Other Cubans took advantage of the weekend to experience their true passions: going out to dance, or to the beach, exploring caves, diving in the reefs, fishing on the coast, or maybe playing baseball, racing cars or organizing cock fights.

Like a ‘Cuban with Italian Eyes’

Many of us on the island have gotten used to seeing only the thorny side of our society: woefully inadequate pay, the critical situation of transportation, which puts all of us in a bad mood; the need to be a magician to keep food on the table, as well as other problems that exist in any society on the planet.

For one reason or another, things we don’t recognize are admired in a special way by many foreigners who visit us every year. They see beyond the difficult economic situation in which most of us Cubans live.

Cuba Living On The Edge

I’ve known Pavel since childhood, and we’ve always gotten along well although our lives are very different. I was born and raised in the Vibora Park neighborhood and I graduated with a University career. He was born and raised in a solar (tenement alley) in Central Havana and he graduated from a Trade School as a lathe operator.

Cuba’s Silvio R. Favors Amnesty

“If it was in my hands I would grant amnesty to those hundred prisoners that some say “are of conscience”, popular Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodriguez told Pagina 12 newspaper in Argentina. Silvio —as he is known in Cuba— was responding to the interviewer’s question on his position regarding the hunger strike of dissenter Guillermo Fariñas?

Haiti MD Tells His Cuba Related Story

Writing for medicc.org, Conner Gorry brings us part one of an interview with Haitian physician Patrick Dely from Port-of-Prince. The doctor tells of how he came to study medicine on a scholarship in Cuba and how four days after the devastating January 12th earthquake he was back in his home country helping with the relief effort.

US Lectures Cuba on Prisoners

The Cuban government has the responsibility of caring for the island’s population, including the persons who are in prison, pointed out Philip Crowley, US Department of State spokesperson. Crowley reiterated that his country is greatly concerned about the conditions in the Caribbean nation’s prisons.

Esquife: Cuba’s Online Culture Project

Buoyant in the storm and sailing for new horizons, the Cuban cultural project Esquife (Skiff) has spent over a decade navigating the rough waters of thought-provoking digital journalism, stirring up opinions rather than wallowing in complacency.

Women Freemasons in Cuba

During a previous course, while I was getting signatures from my students for their exams, something unexpected occurred: When signing her form a coed added three dots, which is what identifies those who are Freemasons. I was thinking this was no more than the student’s bad sense of humor, but when I asked her about it she responded, “But prof, I’m a Mason.”