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- 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
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- Extraordinary Fruit Delivery in Santiago de Cuba
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- EEUU niega visa a académicos cubanos
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- 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
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- Capital del medio ambiente en serranía holguinera
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- 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 is a country which has been narrated to the maximum. The poems, the essays, and the narratives have rummaged down to the core to bring out the best and worst of a nation, which in the process of trying to see itself has tried to be the belly of the world. Javier Negrin, a [...] Continue reading
Hatred is a feeling that has united us to fight for true freedom in Cuba. It is very difficult to erase from memory the suffering of harassment and repudiation. Hate also joined us to the struggle with the bearded ones, those leaders of great intelligence, Camilo, Fidel, Raul etc., used it as a stimulus to [...] Continue reading
What? It seems backwards? No, no it can’t be: what seems backwards is what I heard a representative of the Municipality say after asking at the primary school for explanations of this event. Walking to school, a still-upset grandmother told me that the whole wall and the fence around the school had fallen in during [...] Continue reading
Yaremis Flores Last Saturday, May 5, in the nighttime hours, at least three cows were taken from a farm belonging to Commander Guillermo Garcia Frias, located southeast of the capital. At dawn the next day, three patrol cars and two Forensic Medicine vehicles were observed. The non-commissioned officer Alexander Borrero, one of those charged with [...] Continue reading
When in 1959 it was decided to change everything that had been legislated for the fifty-six years of the Republic, the changes were “at the speed of a pauper’s burial,” in an accelerated way, overnight without entrusting them to God or the Devil. Now — the colossal blunder having been demonstrated for years, responsible for [...] Continue reading
The refrain was echoing throughout the afternoon in the Virginia neighborhood, and the afternoon of last May 16 and it came out of the mouths of a group of teenagers, from a high school, kids the political police took there to carry out one of those acts of public disorder euphemistically called “repudiation.” Needless to [...] Continue reading
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The press and official propaganda organ of the Cuban government, Granma, published a report dated May 18 in Washington, on a lecture given by the City of Havana historian, Eusebio Leal Spengler, at The Brookings Institution think tank in the U.S. Capital. It dealt with the project of restoring the historic center of Havana, declared [...] Continue reading
The old Smith-Corona typewriter fights against the rust that ideologicaloxidation imposes on it. It is not only agile or subversive fingers and minds, but the truth, that suddenly breaks through the thicket of pronouns, nouns, prepositions and verbs that are the subject and predicate of the freedom of thought. That’s why the mechanical keyboard beats [...] Continue reading
He was awarded it as a perk based on merit, paying a subsidized price in 1975, the same year as the first Communist Party Congress. He won the chance to buy that brand new Fiat 125, made in Argentina, because he was a vanguard doctor and an unimpeachable Revolutionary. The first time he parked on [...] Continue reading
It has never been a good practice to carbon copy what has been done in other countries, particularly in the political, economic and social areas, to apply it in one’s own reality. It has been said time and time again that every people, with its own reality, idiosyncrasies and history, is unique unto itself and [...] Continue reading
With the title “The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It,” the newspaper Granma published an editorial on May 17, in commemoration of “Peasant’s Day” from which I have selected three points that invite reflection. One: The Agrarian Reform was a basic need for economic liftoff. An affirmation that I share, since the concentration of [...] Continue reading
The Havana capital will welcome the sessions of the Sixth International Meeting of Justice and Law in the Conventions Palace the next 23rd to25th of May. More than 500 delegates will meet; of those, 300 are foreign jurists from 14 nations. Among the prioritized themes to be discussed are found access to justice on the [...] Continue reading
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 long curly hair and wearing a Phrygian cap and a bright red single star. Or maybe some Cubans here think that the Republic is a huge [...] Continue reading
Arroya Naranjo, a municipality of the Cuban capital, is affected by the cut off of cooking gas, broken electrical equipment, and no plans to fix them. The citizens are upset because they don’t have anything to cook with, some are using wood and some are using more than 300 KW of electricity a month. Alejandro [...] Continue reading
Especially in a country like Cuba, where there is an official voice and a chorus of frogs who, from diverse motives, croak on the same theme, to be a blogger could mean letting people know how you, personally, really take this reality that surrounds us on all sides within the Island and, in this letting [...] Continue reading
Down San Miguel. Up Guines. Walking between the suburban hills and the uncivil garbage at every corner in the neighborhood. With his pristine guayabera and his black briefcase as ridiculous as his dyed mustache. He’s the restaurant inspector from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health. The Chief Inspector who oversees the private businesses of this [...] Continue reading
The scarcity of chemical reagents in Cuban labs has once again put the population living with HIV/AIDS at a disadvantage because they cannot conduct certain lab tests. According to some of the reports from health facilities, the scarcity of the reagents is a problem at the national level, with no exceptions in any hospital. According [...] Continue reading
Translator’s note: This is the electronic poster advertising the event several bloggers wrote about last week.
May 10 2012
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The baseball team of the Cuban capital, the Industrials, is among the four semi-finalists that are competing in the championship playoffs of the 51st National Series. The sports spectacle packs the stadiums with fans and police officers. The narrators of those events always highlight the approximate number of fans but never comment on the exaggerated [...] Continue reading
Right now the Eleventh Havana Biennial is going on. Any cultural activity that takes place on these dates, would remain, as the official language usually says, “inside the framework of the Eleventh Biennial.” But that is not the case. This exposition of alternative humor, CROCODILE SMILE, opened yesterday, May 18, 2012, just inside the box, [...] Continue reading
I secretly envy those who achieve those photos that I would like to have made. Before, with the film camera, there was a “roll.” Getting Orwo film from East Germany was a tiresome task: if there were rolls, the 100 ASA did not suit me; I detested the Orwocolor, which always seemed to be expired; [...] Continue reading
Tomorrow, the 20th, will mark 110 years of the establishment of the Republic. Over here there will be no official celebrations and, if the date is spoken of I’m sure it will be to discredit it, as has been happening over the past half century. However, the Republic, with its deficiencies, excesses, problems and complexities, [...] Continue reading
For years, many Cubans have commented that the Department of Revolutionary Orientation was the ’educator and corrector’ womb that gave birth to the communications broadcast in the Cuban media, and of the rumors convenient to the State, which spread like wildfire in the voice of the people. I don’t know if they will re-name the [...] Continue reading
By Antonio Rodiles The government document regarding guidelines for economic and social policy seeks to outline a new design for Cuban society. This new design envisions an economy essentially separated into three distinct sectors: 1) Large Enterprises: This segment contemplates those sectors with the highest profitability. Here we find tourism, the new Economic Zones (for [...] Continue reading
The mother, overwhelmed byhow muchwas left to do after her long work day, gathers her two-year old daughter from the private nursery that they had recommended to her. “The children are very well cared for and learn a lot,” they had told her. In her urgency to get home, the doctor listened to the little [...] Continue reading
Yaremis Flores At least 25 retirees were fired by the Chief of the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production (UBPC), located in the town Merceditas, in Matanzas, 2 weeks ago. “The reason for the dismissals was the death of one of the elderly, after being trapped in a fire in the cane-growing area of the cooperative,” [...] Continue reading
The purpose of the Eleventh Biennial of Havana, as in previous editions, is to show the art being made in our country as well as in the world and in other lesser-known regions. From the eleventh day of this month until June 11, the entire capital has been converted into a gallery, exhibiting works by [...] Continue reading
The Russians commemorated May 9th of this year, the 67th anniversary of victory over Hitler’s Germany, with a military parade in Red Square in Moscow, as usual. In this traditional parade the the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation marched, as they have since 1991. A new flag, a new anthem and a new political [...] Continue reading
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour [...] Continue reading
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