Though 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.
Read MoreRobelio Carrillo totally silenced the Industriales bats with a two-hit complete game shutout on Wednesday to give Villa Clara a two-zero lead in Cuba’s baseball championship series over Industriales. The best-of-seven series now moves to the capital for games three and four.
Read MoreAn about 60-year-old man, seated on a curb resting from the wait under the sun, said: “I like this group because they don’t bite their tongues; they say what they think and that’s it. They don’t get into politicking; they’re sincere musicians. And that’s worth a lot.” (35 photos)
Read MoreThe wall had to be torn down anyway. Scrawled on its white surface had been the words “opportunism,” “mediocrity,” “bureaucracy” and similar words that were gradually fading under the force of sledge hammers and the beat of music.
This symbolic action, which took place in Havana this past November to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, was given direction by the youths of the Critical Observatory Leadership Network (La Red Protagónica Observatorio Crítico).
Read MoreThe Puerto Rican hip-hop duo Calle 13 made almost 300,000 persons dance for two hours in the Cuban capital during their free concert yesterday at the Anti-imperialist Tribunal, reported IPS. The band’s performance represents a new step in the rapprochement of first-class musical groups to the Caribbean country’s stages.
Read MoreA replica of the historic Cuban slave ship Amistad, which was taken over by the Africans aboard in 1839, is visiting Cuba, where academics and community leaders have begun to publicly debate the problem of racial discrimination that has not been stomped out in Cuban society.
Read MoreThree consecutive two-out singles in the bottom of the seventh gave Villa Clara a 3-2 win over Industriales in game one of their best-of-seven championship baseball series on Tuesday night before a packed Santa Clara stadium with over 25,000 fans and a national TV audience.
Read MoreThe right-wing Spanish Popular Party (PP) will request today before Spain’s Senate the end of the bilateral dialogue with the Cuban government begun three years ago in response to the death of oppositionist Orlando Zapata and as a form of pressure for the release of political prisoners, reported the press in Madrid. Meanwhile, the ruling Spanish Workers Socialist Party (PSOE) will propose a motion to maintain the talks in order to “create the bases for a future of national reconciliation, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,” reported IPS.
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