The film Una Noche (One Night), by the British filmmaker Lucy Mulloy, will be premiered on September 8 at Havana’s La Rampa Theater, reported the newspaper Juventud Rebelde. The US-Cuban-British co-production focuses on the misadventures of a strange love triangle between the two youth and the sister of one of them who tries to cross the 90 miles that separate Cuba from Miami.
Read MoreFrom today until September 29, nominations of candidates for delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People’s Power will be made in the neighborhoods across the island. The National Electoral Commission envisions that close to 8.5 million people are eligible to vote.
Read MoreThe National Statistics Office of Cuba (ONE) reports that the country is producing less food than five years ago, while food prices rose 20 percent in 2011 alone.
Read MoreSeveral political dissidents were detained for several hours in Havana on Saturday after being stopped en route to a meeting of the opposition group Estado de SATS, reports the Cubaencuentro website. Short-term detentions, with no charges filed, has become the routine method used of late by State Securty.
Read MoreThe following is the monthly calendar (in Spanish) of film showings at the Cinemateca de Cuba which includes the Charles Chaplin theater and the Charlot videoteca, both located on 23rd St. between 10th and 12th in Havana’s Vedado District.
Read MoreThe 4th HT Cuba Photo Contest will close for entries on September 15th. To date we have received submissions from 54 persons for some or all of the five categories. The contest is open to both professional and amateur photographers from Cuba and around the world.
Read MoreCuban athlete Yarelis Barrios (who was a silver medalist at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, the World Championships in Osaka in 2007 and in Berlin in 2009), once again walked away with the silver medal in the discus throw – this time at the Zurich Diamond League athletics rally.
Read MoreThe authors of the five best-selling titles in Cuba this summer — three of them about sexuality — were awarded on Friday on Havana’s Paseo del Prado esplanade during the Festival of Books and Reading.
Read MoreThe US Republican running mate, Paul Ryan, committed an error by supporting the ending of the embargo against Cuba for years, but now he has corrected his position, said Cuban-American Congressional representative Mario Diaz-Balart on Thursday.
Read MoreThe general secretary of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba (CTC), Salvador Valdes, speaking on national television on Friday, predicted mass participation by the members of that organization in the upcoming general elections.
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