- Venden "Idolo" del cubano Wilfredo Lam en 3,2 millones euros
- Freedom for the Cuban Five Demanded from Europe and North America
- Havana: Venue of 10th Iberian-American Meeting on Gender and Communication
- Cuban Health Minister Calls upon Developing Countries to Cooperate with Each Other
- Mozambique’s Premier Receives Cuban Vice-President
- Cuban Oil Refinery to eliminate all Pollutants in its Emissions
- Cocoa Production Increases in Guantanamo
- Antonio Guerrero: Merit Collaborator of the Museum of Natural History
- Sixth International Law and Justice Meeting Kicks Off in Havana
- High Percent of Filling Reservoirs in Santiago de Cuba
- Extraordinary Fruit Delivery in Santiago de Cuba
- Pastor en EE.UU. propuso encerrar y electrificar a los gay
- EEUU niega visa a académicos cubanos
- Final Playoff: Tigers Roar Again in Lions Headquarters
- Entrevista a José Pertierra: El juicio a Posada Carriles fue una batalla entre el teatro y la evidencia
- Exponen sobre cambios en administración de justicia en Cuba
- Ciego 8-3 sobre Industriales, serie 2-0
- Por más equidad de género en las agendas mediáticas
- ¿Podrá un patriota cubano verdadero votar por un republicano?
- Capital del medio ambiente en serranía holguinera
- Once deportistas camagüeyanos estarán en Londres 2012
- Radialistas de Camagüey valoran en Florida calidad del trabajo periodístico, artístico y creativo
- Una vez más EE.UU. niega visas a académicos cubanos
- Aroldis Chapman: Viviendo a toda maquina
- Jueces cubanos expresan indignación por amañado juicio contra los Cinco
- Destacan práctica jurídica cubana acorde con actualidad nacional
- Una ventana abierta entre Chávez y su pueblo desde hace 13 años
- El tiempo en La Habana 24-30 mayo
- Esta noche, premiación del festival cultural de la ACLIFIM (Portada)
- Cuba: confianza en la justicia institucional
Cuba Verdad
Why Doesn't the Land Belong to Those Who Work It? / Dimas Castellanos
Dimas Castellanos
With the title "The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It," the newspaper
Granma published an editorial on May 17, in commemoration of "Peasant... Continue reading
Apropos a Dream Called Republic / Miriam Celaya
Miriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting
One hundred and ten years since that May 20th, 1902, it appears that the
Republic is only a beautiful woman of proud bearing, covered by a Greek
tunic, with lo... Continue reading
So Now We Have Internet Access in Cuba?
May 21, 2012
Daisy Valera
HAVANA TIMES — A few days ago I came across "Resolution 146-2012" of the
Ministry of Finances and Prices.
It establishes the rate for Internet connections for Cubans at 6 ... Continue reading
Gross Advocates Wary About Cuba Spy Deal
By JTA
Published May 21, 2012.
Advocates for Alan Gross say talk of a trade with the "Cuban Five" is a
non-starter, but acknowledge hopes that the Obama administration will
consider lower-level conc... Continue reading
Take It Easy You Cubans
May 18, 2012
By Yusimi Rodriguez
HAVANA TIMES — I noticed that on many occasions when writers for Havana
Times criticize the situation in our country, readers will appear ready
to demonstrate that conditions are even worse ... Continue reading
Cuba's +/- Spaghetti
May 19, 2012
Dmitri Prieto
HAVANA TIMES — Every day I'm more and more surprised by the dilemma
posed by the various approaches to product distribution in Cuba.
The rationing book refuses to disappear since no alternati... Continue reading
The Energy Regression / Mario Barroso / Yoaxis Marcheco Suarez
Mario Barroso, Translator: Unstated, Yoaxis Marcheco Suárez
By: Yoaxis Marcheco Suarez
Two separate power outages last week, one on Monday from early morning
until well past noon an... Continue reading
Cuban embargo and defending U.S. property rights
BY JOSE AZEL
jazel@miami.edu
Libertarians hold that the fundamental reason for the existence of
governments is to protect life, liberty, and property. These are the
principles articulated by John Lock... Continue reading
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez refuses to back down
Published On Sat May 19 2012
By Catherine Porter Columnist
HAVANA, CUBA—I have called Yoani Sanchez 76 times since I arrived in
Cuba eight days ago. Once, I managed to get through for 38 seconds
bef... Continue reading
Cuba: Scholars Denied U.S. Visas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 19, 2012
The State Department this week gave Mariela Castro, President Raúl
Castro's daughter, a visa to attend an academic conference in San
Francisco, but on Friday i... Continue reading
Cuban Solidarity Plus
Helle Dale
May 18, 2012 at 10:48 am
Cuban Solidarity Day should make us renew efforts to extend a little
more freedom to the Cuban population, which is still effectively
imprisoned under their creaky Communist autocracy.
May 2... Continue reading
Packing the Embassy Lobbies
May 17, 2012
Dariela Aquique
HAVANA TIMES — Recently, my friend and fellow Havana Times writer
Alfredo Fernandez wrote a post titled Let the Skies Fill with Airplanes.
With his rich style as a commentator, he responded ... Continue reading
Posted on Thursday, 05.17.12
ALBA COUNTRIES
Latin America's school for dictators
BY MARTIN C. AROSTEGUI
Arostegui17@hotmail.com
A year ago this month, Bolivian President Evo Morales inaugurated the
College for Defense of the Bolivarian Alternati... Continue reading
Breaking the Silence on Racism in Cuba
Ivet González interviews documentary-maker GLORIA ROLANDO
HAVANA, May 17, 2012 (IPS) - Gloria Rolando has been revealing hidden
chapters of Cuban history since the 2010 premiere of the first part of
her do... Continue reading
The Russians vs. the Chinese in Cuba
May 16, 2012
By Amrit
Many "La Reina" pressure cookers no longer work.
HAVANA TIMES — As the popular saying goes, "You only value what you've
lost." It's a sad statement – right?
... Continue reading
Nationalism in Cuban Politics
May 16, 2012
Haroldo Dilla Alfonso*
HAVANA TIMES — Nationalism has always been the ace in the hole of Cuban
political culture, which is logical: that's the typical reaction of a
small society facing immense extern... Continue reading
Health Care in Cuba
May 16, 2012
Warhol P.
HAVANA TIMES — In recent times, it has been common to hear the same
kinds of phrases at bus stops or while waiting in whatever type of line;
people will say things like: "Hell, seems like I'm goi... Continue reading
Leaving the Building Repairs Half-finished
May 15, 2012
Irina Echarry
HAVANA TIMES — Ana Rivero is demanding an answer: "The leaks haven't
been fixed. The ceilings are caving in the apartments on the upper floors."
Meanwhile another ... Continue reading
Cuban universities cut student intake by 26 pct
Published May 15, 2012
EFE
Havana – Cuba's universities reduced admissions by 26 percent in the
2011-2012 academic year, the National Statistics Office, or ONE, said
Tuesday.
Its report says th... Continue reading
Hablemos Press journalist awaits 10th deportation to home town
Published on Tuesday 15 May 2012.
Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, a reporter for the independent news agency
Hablemos Press, was arrested on 10 May and is being held in a police
... Continue reading
A dream fullfilled after a daring escape from Cuba
by Jason Berry
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 1:47 PM
PHOENIX -- Every few months or so, there's a big ceremony for new
American citizens at the US District Court building in Phoenix.
On Friday, 100 ... Continue reading
'Project Paladar': New York Chefs Team Up with Cuban Culinary Entrepreneurs
Published May 14, 2012
Fox News Latino
For those who love and appreciate good food, Old Havana is the place to
be these days.
Foreign art lovers are breaking bread w... Continue reading
Posted on Monday, 05.14.12
Cuba after Hugo Chávez
BY CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER
www.elblogdemontaner.com
The most complex part of the inheritance left by Hugo Chávez are the
relations between Venezuela and Cuba. The existing ones were built o... Continue reading
Our Cherished Cobblers
May 14, 2012
Yanelys Nuñez Leyva
HAVANA TIMES — Shoe repair services are appreciated by many people I
know. The lack of good quality shoes and the impossibility of an
acceptable range require average Cubans to get their... Continue reading
Cuba's Raul Castro backs gay rights: daughter
(AFP)
HAVANA — Cuban President Raul Castro backs greater gay rights and ending
discrimination against homosexuals, his daughter Mariela, a famed
sexologist, said Saturday during a colorful gay righ... Continue reading
Prominent Cuban dissident released after brief detention
Published May 11, 2012
EFE
Havana – Prominent Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer has been released
in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba after being held for 29 hours.
Ferrer told Efe... Continue reading
Yoani Sanchez - Award-winning Cuban blogger
Cuba's Workers Union (There Is Only One), Reports to the Regime
Posted: 05/11/2012 4:50 pm
If anything distinguishes May Day from other days in the year, it's not
the parade, nor the crowd waving i... Continue reading
Posted on Friday, 05.11.12
Latin America
U.S. and Cuba say they'd like to see a changed relationship
But U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson says during a
Miami trip that the jailing of Alan Gross and Cuba's lack of political... Continue reading
Analysis: Adjusting the (socialist) model, part 1
By José Manuel Pallí, Esq.
jpalli@wwti.net
In 2011, about this same time of the year, the expectation about
impending changes in the way Cuba regulated property rights was in
crescendo. I w... Continue reading
The Right to Think and Express Oneself Un-Hypocritically
May 11, 2012
by Veronica Vega (Amrit)
HAVANA TIMES — Readers who know me have already been saturated with my
stories about the problems of education in Cuba. I regret having to
bring up that... Continue reading
Cuba: Brain Drain and Naive Youth
May 10, 2012
Fernando Ravsberg*
HAVANA TIMES — In a recent interview, the Cuban-American writer Uva de
Aragon told me that the emigration of thousands of intelligent young
Cubans does not constitute "brain dr... Continue reading
Judge rejects effort to open CIA volume on Cuba
By PETE YOST
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA's
three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba can
remain shrouded in sec... Continue reading
Cubans say reforms under Raúl Castro must speed up
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
5/9/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Analysts say changes related to the workforce 'should go slow'
The slow pace of implementation of economi... Continue reading
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