I’m the son of a man who spent more than half of his life in jail, and not exactly for political or altruistic reasons. My mother ended up divorcing him. Then she married my stepfather, who to me is like a true father.
During that time, some Jehovah’s Witnesses used to come to the house to preach to my mother. Both she and my stepfather were learning from the lectures they received from the visitors. A while later they got baptized as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Read MoreUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his deep sorrow over the death of Orlando Zapata in Cuba, affirmed Martin Nesirsky, spokesperson of the multilateral organization. Zapata died in a hospital in the island’s capital last month after a 85-day hunger strike.
Read MoreThe US Amistad schooner arrived Monday in the port of Matanzas, some 100 kilometers east of the Cuban capital, on its last leg of a tour of the Caribbean to commemorate the abolition of slavery, reported the local press. The vessel is a replica of a similar one that left in 1839 from the port of Matanzas with a shipment of slaves, who rebelled and finally obtained their freedom by decision of the US Supreme Court.
Read MoreThe musicians said honesty is paramount, because “to be honest as a musician, with what you’re seeing, that gives you a grade of objectivity that is crucial for when you’re narrating reality.
Read MoreThe US government says that since its previous report in 2009, “the Cuban government has made no has made no effort to expand political freedoms. One party rule remains the law of the land, and when elections are held they are neither free nor fair.”
Read MoreUnited by jogging or walking, they all turn out here for one reason: to honor the young man who —when finding out he was ill— decided to embark on a long journey through the streets (even after he lost a leg) to help raise funds for cancer research. (39 photos)
Read MoreAfter 50 years of a socialist government and highly personalized leadership, lots of people on and off the island are wondering what’s next for Cuba when Fidel Castro and his brother Raul are gone. If you browse through the Juventud Rebelde newspaper website, you can find several articles referring to recently held meetings of top Communist Party officials with the Young Communist League (UJC). In most of those meetings an often used phrase was heard: “The future of the Revolution is guaranteed.”
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Read MoreCuban President Raúl Castro visited areas affected by last Saturday’s earthquake, the island’s state-run press reported today. Castro met with the local authorities and with specialists from the National Centre for Seismological Research. The earthquake of 5.5 degrees on the Richter scale caused damage to 316 homes and 19 buildings in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.
Read MoreLadies in White, a group of wives and relatives of Cuban political prisoners, asked Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos to reconsider his plan to change the current policy of the European Union (EU) toward Cuba, which since 1996 has been governed by the common position that demands changes in the island for the normalization of bilateral relations, said Blanca Reyes, the group’s spokeswoman.
Read MoreGerman Mesa’s Industriales ball club has indisputably been the “big story” from Day One of this spring’s post-season saga. After disappointing a couple million loyal fanatics in the Capital City by finishing well off the playoff pace during Mesa’s debut last season, the weaker-than-normal 2010 Blue Lions also seemed destined to repeat the letdown at the tail end of the current season.
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