A brigade of Cuban visual and performing artists have been in Haiti as a cultural complement to the island’s on-going health care assistance in the neighboring Caribbean island country. Conner Gorry is writing a blog from Haiti for mediccglobal and here is her latest entry.
Read MoreThe Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) will hold a summit on April 19 in Caracas, Venezuela. The announcement came on Thursday from Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro when he spoke to the press after a meeting with Cuban Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas to discuss bilateral cooperation and projects in support of Haiti.
Read MoreThe Cuban government puts “no restrictions for foreign hotel chains, including from the United States, from administering a hotel” on the island, said tourism minister Manuel Marrero on Thursday. Nonetheless, the half century US economic blockade on Cuba forbids US companies from investing on the island.
Read MoreMore than 55,000 persons will be at the Latinoamericano Stadium in the Cuban capital on Friday to witness game three of the championship best-of-seven series between Industriales, the favorite of Havana, and Villa Clara, last seasons runner-up.
Read MoreUS Senator Byron Dorgan says he will take such a bill to the Senate floor this summer and expects to get 60 of the 100 senators to vote for it. His statement came at a tourist industry conference of both Cuban and US executives in Cancun, Mexico on Thursday.
Read MoreThe demand is huge and it’s not so strange. Cuba must be the sole country in the world where aesthetic surgery is free. They can trim your eyelids, take off some of the belly, improve your profile with a beautiful nose or remodel women’s breasts. It’s not necessary to be very observant to see the changes on the street. It began as something exclusive to people in entertainment, but the fashion has now extended across the board.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro advised US President Barack Obama to focus his attention on issues such as climate change and the situation of immigrants in that country, while he described Obama’s statements about human rights violations on the island as “foolish.”
Read MoreThough several days have now gone by since the earth tremor that shook Santiago and Guantanamo residents, I still feel a bit nervous even recalling the event, one of the two most intense earthquakes on our island in more than 50 years.
Read MoreWhat is it to be a revolutionary in the 21st century? Where are the values in Cuban culture? How is a socialist society built? The questions rained down on us. As the debate heated up, more the questions are laid bare. Thus we see them: stark naked, challenging reason, rigid thought and dogma.
The main figures were a handful of young film directors, a couple of critics and teachers, an odd cultural director or two, with the rest being aficionados of the art of reflecting.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Cuban and U.S. tourist sector began talks Wednesday in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun to explore the potentials of a possible lifting of the U.S. travel to Cuba ban. The island’s authorities estimate that around 1.7 million tourists could arrive from the neighboring country each year if the current restrictions did not exist.
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