Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made a brief working visit to Cuba this Tuesday, during which he met with his counterpart Raúl Castro and with former President Fidel Castro to talk about bilateral collaboration and the next summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) to be held in Cuba in December.
Read MoreA new space to “develop the subject of gender relations,” will open next December 4 at the William Carey Church, in Havana’s Vedado district, announced sources from the event’s Organizing Committee. This first meeting will deal with gender and race in today’s Cuba.
Read MoreTo respond to climate change it is necessary to change the current production and consumption patterns on the road to a sustainable economic model, affirmed Pedro Núñez, Cuba’s permanent ambassador to the UN. The official affirmed that the survival of humanity depends on a world energy revolutio.
Read MoreThe popular Puerto Rican group Calle 13 could attend the presentation of the documentary “Calle 13-Sin mapa” during the 31st New Latin American Film Festival, to be held in the Cuban capital next December 3-13.
Read MoreOn 23rd street in the capital’s Vedado district, there’s a special club whose nights are devoted to Cuban jazz. With red walls and carpet green, a stairway leads down to a place of magical universal sound created by saxophones, pianos, trumpets, basses and a host of other instruments.
Read More“Although Cuban women are not exempt from violence, an effort can be appreciated to counteract the situation,” affirmed Susan McDade, UN resident coordinator in Cuba, who recognized the work of the nongovernmental Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). Wednesday is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Read MoreHitting has remained the principal theme through the first several weeks of this year’s Cuban National Series. Perhaps the most novel feat of the young season-at least in the individual hitting department-transpired a week ago in Ciego de Avila’s José Ramón Cepero Stadium when Guantanamo’s normally solid-hitting shortstop and leadoff man Dainier Moreira equaled a league record with his perfect six-at-bat performance that tied a frequently matched National Series standard.
Read MoreBrazil repeated as the winner of the FIVB Men’s World Grand Champions Volleyball Cup on Monday, going undefeated in five games of round robin play in Nagoya, Japan. Cuba was a close second with a 4-1 record losing its only match in five sets to the South Americans.
Read MoreCuba will introduce new scientific applications in the cultivation of rice with the collaboration of specialists from Japan, China and Vietnam, in a program for the production of that cereal until 2013 and which should reduce the island’s dependence on imports.
Read MoreA workshop titled “Violence in music? Violent music?” took place Tuesday in the Cuban capital’s Jose Marti International Institute of Journalism, convened by the Mirta Aguirre Gender and Communications Chair of that institution and the Iberian-American Network of Masculinities.
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