Cuba’s government-controlled media stepped up its offensive Monday in response to what the government calls a well-orchestrated international campaign of misinformation carried out in the last few weeks against this socialist island nation.
Read MoreCuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has become a public figure thanks to a hunger strike he is waging over the demand for the release of a group of political prisoners the government describes as mercenaries. Havana Times invites our readers to share their opinions on the legitimacy of the hunger strike .
Read MoreMany of the people who had the good luck of seeing the documentary and who greatly enjoyed it, don’t like rap, in fact can’t even stand to listen to it for more than half an hour. Many of the people who pass CDs of Los Aldeanos from hand to hand, or from flash memory to flash memory – because these recordings aren’t produced by the State’s EGREM or by Colibri Studios or any of the other official studios in the country, nor are they sold in the stores – don’t even know what Hip Hop culture is. But you have to hear Los Aldeanos.
Read MoreMore than 100 left organizations and parties in Latin America, Asia and Africa backed the Cuban government in the face of the “press campaign” over the hunger strike of two dissidents in a document signed during the 14th International Symposium on “The Parties and a New Society,” held in Mexico.
Read MoreBolivian President Evo Morales questioned the international scandal” over the death of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Tamayo Zapata, in a press conference in the city of Cochabamba, reported IPS. Morales asked “why don’t they criticize capitalism, which every day kills who knows how many people with its economic policies?”
Read MoreVilla Clara came from behind to overwhelm Ciego de Avila and its star lefty Maikel Folch 10-3 on Sunday. The win gives last year’s league runners-up a commanding 3-0 lead in the best of seven Eastern Division Cuban baseball league finals.
Read MoreCuba’s hurdles champion Dayon Robles set a new record (indoors) for the 60-meter hurdles in World Athletics Championships on Sunday to win the gold medal at Doha 2010. Cubans Yoandri Betanzos (17.69) and Arnie David Giralt (17.36) finished second in third in the triple jump event behind Teddy Tamgho of France who set a new world record of 17.90.
Read MoreA full-length documentary film “Eso que anda” (Still going strong) by director Ian Padron won first prize of the competing works in the 11th edition of the Santiago Alvarez in Memorium International Documentary Film Festival.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro met in Havana on Saturday with El Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez Bonilla accompanied by the Central American country’s First Lady Vanda Pignato.
Read MoreCuba’s Olympic gold medalist Dayron Robles takes to the track in Doha, Quatar on Sunday in the 13th World Athletics Championship in the 60-meter hurdles. Robles runs in heat two of the three semifinals events. The finals will take place later in the day.
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