An extensive feature article appears in the UK’s Daily Mail online on Sunday written by Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol about her recent bicycle tour of Cuba. The article starts out with Thatcher’s dilemma about buying some shoelaces in shortage prone Cuba and goes on to recount her trip that included the Varadero Beach Resort, the far western rural community of Viñales and Havana the capital.
Read MoreCuba’s most famous salsa band Los Van Van perform in concert tonight at the James L. Knight Center in Miami. In statements to a local Miami radio station the band’s director Juan Formell said the group is willing to share the stage with Cuban musicians living off the island.
Read MoreThe Cuban Ministry of Interior claims to have made over 25,000 inspections at State offices and businesses during 2009, reported the Cuban News Agency on Saturday. The ministry said that 7,059 fines were issued but did not go into any details as to the extent or seriousness of the violations.
Read MoreThe number of patients in the Havana Psychiatric Hospital who died due to the cold weather in mid January could be as many as 50, affirmed Elizardo Sánchez, president of the opposition’s Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Up to now the Cuban authorities have only acknowledged the death of 26 persons.
Read MoreThe Sundance Film Festival in Utah is down to its final two days and the film “Memories of Overdevelopment” by Cuban Miguel Coyula has its fifth and final showing on Saturday evening.
Read MoreThe Cuban feature length Chamaco, by filmmaker Juan Carlos Cremata, will make its international debut in the Miami International Film Festival, to be held in that U.S. city March 5-14, announced Tiziana Finzi, the event’s artistic director. The film is about the connection between poverty and sexual exploitation in contemporary Cuban society.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will propose a new immigration accord to the United States when representatives hold their second meeting on February 19 in Havana, announced Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. The current agreement was reached in the height of the rafters’ crisis in the summer of 1994
Read MoreCuban virtuoso jazz pianist Chucho Valdes will record a special song titled Haiti volverá (Haiti will Return) dedicated to the victims of the earthquake that devastated the capital of the Caribbean country on January 12. Chucho agreed to donate the rights to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help with the recovery effort.
Read MoreA US government agent jailed in Cuba for distributing illegal electronic equipment and the Cuban Five jailed in the US for conspiracy to commit espionage may axe any hopes of a significant change in the adversarial relations of a half century between the two neighboring countries.
Read MoreHoward Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010), a militant anarchist, social activist, historian and American political scientist, has left on a new journey.
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