Cuban filmmaker Yosmani Acosta won the Best Director award at the prestigious New York City International Film Festival on Friday for “Pablo”, his feature film shot in Camaguey. The film also obtained the Best Supporting Actor award, bestowed on Omar Franco.
Read MoreIn a couple week’s time, the streets and boulevards of Santiago de Cuba will once again become the stage of a colorful, popular festivity. Held every year from July 3 to 9, the province’s Festival of Fire celebrates Caribbean culture, and is one of the summer festivities that people here look forward to most intensely.
Read MoreIn a country like Cuba, filled with busts of Jose Marti and all manner of portraits of Che Guevara, where one comes across many a plaster figure of Saint Lazarus and even of a Sioux native (the emblem of the Native American Commission of Cuban spiritists), these busts are a rare sight indeed.
Read MoreCuban pole-vaulter Lazaro Borges surpassed the 5.70 meter mark in Plock, Poland in the Orlen Cup, where he won a silver medal, Granma newspaper reported.
Read MoreA Canadian court heard a guilty plea on Friday from James McTurk, 78, a retired postal worker accused by Toronto police for child sex tourism crimes committed in Cuba. He now faces a possible life sentence.
Read MoreTanaka didn’t think he was anything special. In fact, he had never once stopped to consider whether his life was of any value or not. When he woke up every morning, nothing beyond the feeling that he needed to get out of bed, to convince himself he was still there, inspired him to draw in the first breath.
Read MoreSixty Cuban Americans from across the United States released an open letter to the Obama Administration strongly disagreeing with the position of Cuban-American legislators from Florida on retaining Cuba on the State Department’s list of “state sponsors of terrorism.”
Read MoreGaliano is an emblematic street of Havana, with numerous large stores and lots of foot traffic. Life here is noisy with small businesses in the different porches and in the street. Workers come and go amid their daily efforts, many without losing the smile on their faces. (29 photos)
Read MoreLeinier Dominguez was crowned Monday at the Grand Prix chess stage at Thessaloniki, Greecee where he defeated Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, JIT Online reported.
Read MoreIf public transportation within city limits is “terrible”, we would need a particularly harsh adjective, something along the lines of “disastrous”, to capture the experience of those longer journeys, known as “interprovincial trips”, which Cuba’s coach company Astro has been offering for a number of years now.
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