At a feverish pace, the baseball Stadium and its surrounding streets were spruced up to receive President Obama and the Tampa Bay Rays. let’s take a look a few blocks away from this big blue stage and see the other reality of this municipality of Cerro. (17 photos)
Read MoreThe fair is mainly a business session where foreign companies show their technological developments to executives from Cuban state companies and institutions interested in improving their outdated technologies. (16 photos)
Read MoreThe Stone Zoo is located in the mountains of the province of Guantanamo. Built by farmer and self-taught sculptor Angel Iñigo Blanco, the majestic site contains over 400 pieces of rock chiseled into the shape of animals. (25 photos)
Read MoreWith advertising all but absent in Cuba, a small sign takes on even greater importance for the self-employed: those exercising one of the 181 limited activities authorized by the Cuban government, and others not approved. Here are some I came across walking around Guantanamo City. (13 photos)
Read MoreAn international crew of workers from England, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Peru and the host country are going full speed to ready the stage with its huge towers for the first ever Rolling Stones concert in Cuba, a country that previously forbade its citizens to listen to their music. (10 photos)
Read MoreCuba’s Isle of Youth (formerly the Isle of Pines) is located roughly 60 kilometers from the Batabano port and 142 kilometers from Havana, it has a total land surface of 2,400 square kilometers and is surrounded by more than 600 keys and small isles (making up the Canarreos archipelago in Cuba’s south-western region). (36 photos)
Read MoreHavana has seen an explosion in tourism over the past year. Many of us who live in the city do not recall having seen as many tourists on the street, in parks, squares and avenues as we do today. Countless tourists have arrived to get to know Cuba’s reality up close. (27 photos)
Read MoreWe have to acknowledge the efforts the State is making with its fumigation and public health campaigns. These huge sums of money, however, will continue to be flushed down the toilet until garbage collection units begin to do their job. (27 photos)
Read MoreIn the midst of the crisis, the government is announcing it will begin extracting coal, gold, diamonds and coltan in Zulia and southern Venezuela, because oil prices are very low and because we’ve already used up the country’s reserves.(26 photos)
Read MoreIn recent days a flood of workers have fallen like ants in the Latinoamericano stadium and its surroundings; masons, painters, electricians changing poles and wires, workers repaving, and even the telecommunications company ETECSA has created a Wi-Fi zone outside the stadium. (20 photos)
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