Cuba in Top 5 at World Indoor Championships
With the recent titles of Leyanis Pérez and Andy Díaz, the latter representing Italy, Cuban athletes have now won 22 gold medals at global indoor events.
With the recent titles of Leyanis Pérez and Andy Díaz, the latter representing Italy, Cuban athletes have now won 22 gold medals at global indoor events.
If GDP growth depends on export revenues, we should conclude that there is a real possibility that we will not reach the forecasted 1%.
The World Travel Awards (WTA), a competition that recognizes, rewards, and celebrates excellence in all sectors of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries around the world, nominated the Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC) for the ninth time. The WTA included the Havana cultural institution in its shortlist for Caribbean’s Leading Entertainment Venue, a recognition that celebrates excellence in the region’s cultural and leisure offers, according to a statement sent to OnCuba. This nomination consolidates FAC’s position as one of the “most innovative and vibrant spaces on the contemporary cultural scene,” with a unique approach that fuses music, visual arts, dance, film, design, and thought, and that “continues to attract thousands of national and international visitors each year.” Fabricado de Arte Cubano. Photo: Facebook. “Being nominated again is an honor and a testament to the impact that a cultural project born in Cuba with a global vocation can have,” said FAC leader, renowned Cuban musician X Alfonso, who also sees “the public that accompanies us, the team that makes this dream possible every night, and the creative community” that brings the project to life. On the platform, one of the most important for international tourism on the island, the public has...
In just two months, the administration has filled the headlines. It’s very likely that new decisions are coming that will harm Cubans, and not just those on the island.
The cause lies in the strength of a movement that undermines citizens’ trust in the wonderful health tool that vaccines are.
The crisis is destroying a society’s domestic rituals, disrupting the consumption traditions that forged an identity’s background for centuries.
Sound designer Angie Hernández and musician Ulises Hernández are the island's two candidates for the Ibero-American film and audiovisual award.
The traumatic legacy of the pandemic, an erratic economic policy, and the weight of the blockade has resulted in more poverty, emigration, and hopelessness: these have been the worst years in recent decades.
Key lessons to strengthen a broader political vision about the present and the uncertain future, as some questions from those tense years resurface.
The second edition of the International Barlady Competition was held in Cuba, reaffirming the island’s importance in the global world of cocktails.
At the beginning of the Republican era, they fought for a place in the activities dedicated to commerce, in which the Spanish had primacy.
The need to find the right toys for her daughter and not being able to find them made her make a decision: to have a store for these toys.
According to several sources and press reports, the U.S. government “plans to revoke the parole of some 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans as soon as this month,” while considering doing the same with some 240,000 Ukrainians.
Shrouded in the silence of history, they were a real “scandal” in their time, breaking the ceiling of omnipresent machismo.
Robert Kennedy Jr.’s eldest son was in the Jardines de la Reina, Cuba, with his father in 2014. Upon his return to the United States, he wrote about the embargo.
This is 24.6% less than the same period in 2024, according to official figures. All the main issuing markets fell, except for Germany, while Canada and Russia suffered the biggest declines.
The measure is contained in the bill on property, possession and use of land, which will be presented in December to the National Assembly for approval.
Without a banking system that is not only robust, but at least fulfills its basic obligations, it is not possible to talk about re-boosting the economy.
He arrived on the island in 2009, when he was just a teenager, and a proposal changed his life. Today he works at the Holguín Ophthalmological Center and dreams of seeing a free Palestine.
Although they do not escape the setbacks of the crisis and other difficulties, the tobacco farmers of Pinar Río continue “struggling” with the land and keep alive a centuries-old heritage.
A platoon of students who have just arrived in Havana bring with them a battery of questions, which I try to answer. Here’s a pale sample.
The Penal Code, far from being a modernized instrument, repeats and even aggravates many of the shortcomings and bad practices that penal regulations in Cuba have dragged along.
After graduating from Harvard University, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He then attended Pace University School of Law, New York, where he earned a Master’s degree in Environmental Law. From 1986 to 2018, he was a faculty member at the Pace School of Law. He co-founded the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, which represents Hudson Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization based in Ossining, New York, dedicated to protecting the river, one of the most iconic in American culture. As Riverkeeper’s chief prosecutor, Kennedy took up over 150 lawsuits against various corporations polluting the waterway. He also inspired the creation of more than 100 global Waterkeeper organizations and an umbrella group, the Waterkeeper Alliance. For these kinds of actions, Time magazine named him one of its “Heroes for the Planet.” “To me,” he told Time, “the environment cannot be separated from the economy, housing, civil rights, and human rights. How we distribute the goods of the earth is the best measure of our democracy. It’s not about advocating for fish and birds. It’s about human rights.” https://youtu.be/Ms-XL0Qqz8k This is the RFK Jr. who first arrived...
In nearly forty years, Cuba has reduced its rice production by 19 times. With a basic food basket on the verge of extinction, the noose of food insecurity is shrinking.
The Cuban-Spanish company closed last year with more than 4,000 specialized points of sale in the world, including 21 Cohiba Atmosphere, 168 Casas del Habano, 602 Habanos Terras, 1,321 Habanos Especialistas and 2,600 Habanos.
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