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While there are more female university students and professionals than men in Cuba women represent only 33.4 per cent of the persons elected to head People’s Power local governments in last April 25’s elections, announced the National Electoral Commission (CEN). The figure does show a more than six per cent as compared to the 2007 elections. Meanwhile, IPS noted that the proportion of the persons less than 35 years of age was 16.3 per cent, while non-white persons were close to 40 per cent, exceeding their presence as part of the island’s population.

Over three dozen Cubans in three different vessels were captured at sea by the US Coast Guard as they came up short trying to take advantage of the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that favors Cuban immigrants over all other nationals. The US law entices Cubans seeking greener pastures to take to the Caribbean Sea in rickety vessels or smugglers speed boats with the hope of landing on US soil which in most cases grants them a fast track to permanent US residency.

Children’s baseball players from Cuba and the United States will be the leading actors in the island in the documentary “From Ghost town to Havana,” a film by U.S. documentary maker Eugene Corr, which narrates the life of a Cuban and a U.S. trainer, reported the accredited press in the Caribbean nation. The film is a project that began in 2007 but did not get authorization from the Treasury Department in Washington during the George W. Bush administration.

The state-run Popular Camping Company, which for almost 30 years has been offering vacations for persons in Cuba, will open today its offices for the summer season reservations, reported IPS. This camping modality is considered one of the Cuban population’s favorites because of the reasonable prices and the possibility of being in contact with regions of great natural beauty.

While Cuban leaders repeatedly state that the continuation of the Revolution is guaranteed, many of the country’s professional young people in their 20s and 30s see their future leaving for greener pastures abroad.

Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo is in Costa Rica on Sunday heading the island’s delegation to the swearing in of President Laura Chinchilla Miranda in San Jose. Costa Rica and Cuba restored diplomatic relations in 2009 after the Central American nation unilaterally broke off ties with the Caribbean nation back in 1961.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro affirmed that U.S. President Barack Obama “ignores reality and doesn’t want nor could he overcome it,” in one of his usual Reflections. “He rather dreams of unreal things in an unreal world,” said the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, who referred to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the blockade against the island and the measures against immigration in the state of Arizona.