On 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.
Read MoreMeteorologist José Rubiera, head of the Cuban Institute of Meteorology’s Weather Forecast Center, participated in a conference on cooperation between the island and the United States held in the city of New Orleans. In his dissertation Rubiera referred to the vital importance of collaboration between both countries in the face of tropical cyclones.
Read MoreOn the last Sunday of each month, the flowers at the El Jardin de la Gorda Peña open at 4:00 p.m. with all their colors and shades to receive a public anxious to hear the voices and songs of Sara Gonzalez and her guests. This Sunday the special guest is the group Manguaré.
Read MoreDiscussions on the digital media, cultural journalism and communications will be the focus of the working sessions of the International Theoretical Meeting on Digital Media and Culture, convened by the Esquife art and literature electronic magazine and to be held next December in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreCuba strongly criticized the U.S. blockade and described it as a failed policy during a debate in the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization (WTC) on Section 211 of the U.S. Budget Allotment Act, which has led to litigations between both nations over the possession of trade marks registered in the island.
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