“Here getting along is getting harder every day,” my friend Yolexis told me from Havana. The Oropouche, Beryl and the prices dictated the pace of our talk.

“If the Russians really want to help us, what they have to send is food, oil, fertilizer, trains, parts for thermoelectric plants, things like that,” my neighbor Yolexis writes to me from Cuba.

Almost a year after the launch of the first ranking, SMG Branding is already working on preparing a second edition, with bars, accessories and e-commerce platforms as the protagonists.

A true musical jack-of-all-trades, the artist from Manaca Iznaga assures that he is not interested in “copying old formulas” and defends Cuban music as the essence of his career.

The queen of “bounce” has had an intense program in the Cuban capital. The exchanges with artists, LGTBIQ+ activists and entrepreneurs have been the highlight.

Along with foreign and state enterprises, representatives of the Cuban private sector also participated in the commercial exchange and confirmed that the island’s economy cannot remain aloof from their work.

About the upcoming event, its participants and possible results, OnCuba spoke with Ernesto Soberón, general director of Consular Affairs and Attention to Cubans Living Abroad of the Foreign Ministry.

After retiring from wrestling and with nearly four decades in the calendar, the Guantánamo woman has returned for revenge, now in boxing.

The silver medalist in the San Salvador Central American Games talks about how she got to boxing, her experience on the national team and her future aspirations.

“It has not been a theoretical event but about what we can do and how we do it,” said the president of the United States-Cuba Trade and Economic Council.

Since long before launching its first official punches, Cuban women’s boxing has had to face an unfair and unequal fight.

In tune with experts or with their own reasons, many Cubans do not hide their concern and distrust with the recently announced measures.

Chronicle of an afternoon of conversations and games on a Havana corner.

The island’s aging and overexploited electrical infrastructure is unable to stabilize its operation at the gates of another very hot summer.

Regarding the current moratorium for staying outside the island, new bills, the current migratory flow and other issues associated with the event, Ernesto Soberón, general director of Consular Affairs and Attention to Cubans Resident Abroad, responds to OnCuba.

Statements about the event offered to OnCuba by Ernesto Soberón, Cuban Foreign Ministry general director of Consular Affairs and Attention to Cubans Resident Abroad.

Regarding the still recent preparation of the first ranking, OnCuba spoke with Suselmis Martín, executive director of SMG Branding, the company that carried out this initiative.

Regarding prospects for collaboration with the private sector in Cuba, we spoke with Joaquín Samperio Sañudo, president of the association that represents almost 300 Spanish companies on the island.

Continuation of OnCuba’s dialogue with Laura Pujol, Cuban Foreign Ministry’s deputy director general of Consular Affairs and Attention to Cubans Resident Abroad.

Interview with Laura Pujol, Cuban Foreign Ministry’s deputy director general of Consular Affairs and Attention to Cubans Resident Abroad.

About lines to buy chicken, “recoveries” of “prioritized” products, fuel shortages and other daily vicissitudes in Havana.

Taking advantage of the current baseball enthusiasm, and as a tribute to the Day of the Trovador, I propose putting together a Team Cuba of the traditional trova.

The impact of the meteorological phenomenon has been considered “the biggest blow that the tobacco infrastructure has suffered throughout its history.”

Second part of the interview with First Deputy Minister of Communications Wilfredo González Vidal.

OnCuba spoke with First Deputy Minister of Communications Wilfredo González Vidal about connectivity and computerization, in the first part of this interview that will continue tomorrow.