Of those who never wore uniforms or military stripes or badges on their chests, little will ever be known, even though the heroic pages they wrote and still write —which are well hidden, burned or forgotten— are a substantial part of the pillars of this revolution that remain standing in the struggle for our future.
Read MoreThe Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) has a summit set to open in Caracas, Venezuela on Monday. “There is going to be a group of decisions and proposals that have been worked to effectively open a path towards the truth to counter the ongoing aggressions in the struggle to be free and independent,” said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro.
Read MoreAlejandro Robaina, Cuba’s most famous grower in a country known worldwide for having the best tobacco, died at the age of 91. His funeral is set for Sunday afternoon in his Pinar del Rio municipality of San Luis.
Robaina is the only Cuban farmer who, in life, had his name used as a brand of Havana cigars (Vegas Robaina). He worked in tobacco since he began helping his father at the age of 12.
Read MoreIf precipitations do not increase in May, the drought that is already affecting half a million persons in Cuba could worsen, said specialists from the Institute of Meteorology’s Climate Center. The deficit in rain began in November 2008, reported IPS.
Read MoreWhen Cuban athletes face competitors from any capitalist country (especially the United States, and even more so if the sport is baseball) it’s hardly a simple sporting event. It’s a confrontation between socialist sports and capitalist sports.
Read MoreYesterday I got up early as always, but I guess I was moving more quickly than usual, since by 6:50 I was already at the bus stop to see if I could get the 7 a.m. bus and save myself the trouble of hitchhiking, or the 2 pesos for a collective horse-drawn taxi.
Read MoreChilean businessman Roberto Gabriel Baudrand Valdes, who was found dead in his apartment on April 13, died of “acute respiratory insufficiency” related to the consumption of medicines and alcohol, states the Cuban government in an official note published on Friday.
Read MoreOne of the priorities of the process of change undertaken by Cuban President Raul Castro is apparently curbing corruption, which threatens to undermine the country from the inside.
Cuban academic Esteban Morales wrote in an article in which he said corruption is “much more dangerous than the so-called internal dissidents” in this one-party socialist state.
Read MoreIn Cuba these days we are seeing concerts in support of the Revolution, ceremonies of patriotic demands at workplaces, fiery statements in the press by readers, and speeches by those who remind people they mustn’t yield – “not even an inch.”
The siege mentality returns in the face of the “foreign threat” —embodied this time by the United States and the European Union— which in words of Raul Castro have launched an “enormous smear campaign against Cuba.”
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled early Thursday from Managua to Havana for consultations with his close allies President Raul and Fidel Castro. Cuba and Venezuela were the two founding members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) and Chavez country is Castro’s leading trade partner.
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