Cuban authorities have created uncertainty in the tourism market due to a new regulation announced earlier this week that all visitors must have a travel health insurance policy approved by or purchased from the Cuban government.
Read MoreRelatives of Canadian Terry Fox will visit Cuba for the first time to take part in the 12th edition of the Terry Fox Run on March 20 throughout the island.
Read MoreThis past December, the Cuban Ministry of Culture censored the Poesía sin Fin arts festival; though this event had taken place annually since 1999 in Havana’s outlying Alamar projects. The organization sponsoring the celebration was OMNI-ZONA FRANCA, and its coordinator Amaury Pacheco agreed to an interview with Havana Times.
Read More“We were told this was a very rough area, with a lot of crime when we learned where we would be working,” said Arnaldo Santa Cruz, a physical therapist from Havana. But with over 6 weeks in operation, the Cubans are respected and protected by Belair’s community.
Today, like every day, women with babies and their young children, grandmothers and the odd man, wait patiently to see one of the “Cuban doctors” as the entire group is known. At the end of a long morning diagnosing and treating acute respiratory infections, scabies, and other common conditions plaguing Port-au-Prince’s population, a young girl arrives with a too-small bundle swaddled in a towel.
Read MoreThe head of the Cuban Civil Aeronautics Institute is to be replaced, announced the Council of State on Monday. Brigade General Ramon Martinez will take over for General Rogelio Acevedo, the current president of the Institute. Martinez is the second in command at the Air Force.
Read MoreThe most frustrating thing is not being subjected to a law that one doesn’t know about, but being subjected to it even after finding out it doesn’t exist. Yet the immense majority of people in our country don’t ask where the laws appear. It’s enough to tell them: “You can’t do that” or “You can’t go into this.”
Read MoreDressed in black with chains hanging from their waists and necks, ready to writhe from side to side, the young lovers of the hardest strain of rock enjoyed their first Havana festival: Black Metal 6.6.6 FEST. (10 photos)
Read MoreThe state news media in Cuba reported Monday on the case of dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on a hunger strike for 13 days and refuses to go into exile in Spain.
Read MoreSouthpaw Aroldis Chapman made his much awaited Major League Baseball debut on Monday in a spring training game against Kansas City. He pitched the third and fourth innings without allowing a run in the game won by Cincy 14-5.
Read MoreThree months ago Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella won the award for Best Director at the Havana Film Festival for “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in their eyes). On Monday, he won a prestigious Oscar in Hollywood for the Best Foreign Film.
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