Elio Delgado Valdes

The book titled The Sacred Family tells the story of the Orishas. Orula, the Orisha of Wisdom, second only to God, was a witness to the moment of creation. Able to divine destiny, controller of the four winds, Orula saw the creation of the solar system, the Orishas and human beings. (21 photos)

Daily life on Frank Pais St. in San Juan y Martinez, Pinar del Rio has some special characteristics. It’s a street that runs from the train tracks and extends two miles into the countryside with houses on both sides of the road. (30 photos)

A tribute was held this week in Havana to celebrate two birth anniversaries, that of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar, his 230th and the 59th of recently deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Bolivar was born on July 24 and Chavez on the 28th. (25 photos)

The Dance of the Scissors was performed in Old Havana recently as part of Peruvian culture week in the Cuban capital. The indigenous people’s dance originated in Ayacucho and is characterized by the use of the violin and harp. (29 photos)

Cuba’s colonial oligarchy saw the railway system as a novel technological breakthrough that could solve many of the problems of the island. Cuba was then one of the world’s largest sugar producers and faced the task of transporting its sugar products from the refineries to the country’s ports.(28 photos)

Last weekend Olympic Day (June 23) was celebrated around the globe. In Cuba a run took place for people of all ages from 12 and older. In Havana the publicity was deficient, so the amount of people was less than in other years. (24 photos)

San Juan y Martínez is the seat of the municipality with the same name in the province Pinar del Río. Its economy is centered mainly on agriculture, with the main crop being its outstanding tobacco. The municipality has an estimated population of 45,000. (30 photos)

A train trip from Guane to San Juan y Martinez, in Cuba’s western province of Pinar del Rio, affords us a true abundance of beautiful natural sights. We departed from Guane as the first beams of sunlight began to reach us from the east, on a very old train which chugs along the vast expanse of countryside separating these two towns in Pinar del Rio. (30 photos)