Overcoming the obligations imposed by society, the woman has always felt impelled to struggle for her individuality…for the freedom to choose. It doesn’t matter if she’s in Africa (with its ingrained traditions) or in Europe (with its apparent advances), the condition of being a woman is a challenge that must be assumed in all existing patriarchal societies.
Read MoreA group made up by 27 Cuban doctors and support personnel, specializing in natural disasters and epidemics situations traveled Tuesday to Chile to collaborate in the areas affected by the powerful earthquake that hit a vast region of that country on Saturday. The healthcare personnel belong to the Henry Reeve medical brigade and are travelling with the necessary provisions to operate wherever the Chilean authorities decide.
Read MoreAs I have so often written on this website, Cuban baseball is always full of mild and sometimes even alarming surprises. Most of these—for example the pair of first-inning grand slams by Alexei Bell in this year’s season opener—are good, often even exciting and unprecedented. But occasionally we witness the bad, and even the truly ugly.
Read MoreVilla Clara embarrassed Santiago de Cuba for the second straight day with a 12-1 knockout on Monday on the heels of a similar 11-1. The best-of-seven series continues in Santiago on Wednesday. In an unusually poor outing Santiago’s top starter, Norge Luis Vera, gave up 8 runs in the first two innings to take the loss.
Read MoreThe Cuban government maintains that its health authorities did everything possible to save the life of political prisoner Orlando Zapata who died last week at the Hermanos Amejeiras Hospital in Havana after an 85 day hunger strike.
Read MoreCuban baseball launched its landmark twenty-fifth edition of National Series playoffs this past weekend and thrills and surprises are seemingly guaranteed to fill the bill during this year’s historic post-season championship competition.
Read MoreThe person who told me this story is an acquaintance who I occasionally run into at the bus stop. When I told him that I write for an Internet site that doesn’t belong to the country’s official press and I then requested he go into the details of the story, he got scared.
Read MoreCuban First VP Jose Ramon Machado Ventura arrived in Uruguay on Sunday to attend the inauguration Monday of President Jose Mujica. On his first day in Montevideo Machado met with both outgoing president Tabaré Vazquez as well as the president elect.
Read MoreHAVANA TIMES, Mar. 1 – Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas began today an official visit to Cuba at the invitation of President Raúl Castro, reported IPS. The two nations have had diplomatic relations since April 1979.
Read MoreCuban authorities hope to expand the suburban agriculture program to 156 localities after good results in the 18 municipalities where that initiative began last January, affirmed Adolfo Rodríguez, national head of the project. The island also hopes to produce all the vegetable seeds it needs instead of imports.
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