CRF19, aggressive strain of HIV detected in Cuba
By: Gabriela M. Fernández The news of the discovery of a new strain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Cuban...
Beyond the wall … (Part I)
From the National Highway you can distinguish the Guaniguanico Mountain Range. From the distance you can see that blue-green silhouette,...
Havana, proudly unique
It is impossible to be indifferent to Havana; the former gateway to the New World still has the almost mystical...
US -Cuba police cooperation: to catch the “bugs”
In the Cuban slang a "bug" is someone with skills to sneak through the margins of the law and turn...
Grave thieves
Not even after death you get a break. Not even in your grave you are safe, finally. The Garcia brothers...
Santiago 500: The balcony of a city
At just steps from Céspedes Park, in the heart of Santiago de Cuba, a sui generis site rises. Its walls...
Censorship in Cuba: The Thirst for the Forbidden
Not even comedian Luis Silva has been spared from TV censorship. Some 40 years ago, Spanish and Italian censors prohibited...
Art in the factory. Interview with Solveig Font
By: Ruben Ramirez del Alma Solveig Font is one of the specialists in plastic arts of the Cuban Art...
Santiago 500: Seafront
His stilts plunged into the bay. The look reverberates with the sun reflecting in the water or lost in the...
The hidden talents of Robert Baldoquin
To my friend El Tuna The Las Tunas player Roberto Suliban Baldoquin signed on Tuesday December 9 with Angels of...
Esteban, new Cuban film about perseverance
Esteban is Jonal Cosculluela´s debut film. It is an intimate drama about a ten year old boy who casually discovers...
Santiago de Cuba will have its own Malecon
The building of a Malecon (seafront promenade) from the birth of the Alameda until the Ports Authority building is one...
And you’ve already gone to the Midnight Mass?
Religious traditions are many, especially when these are adapted to each culture. If we did a list, we could be...
Will it be the end of USAID´s spells?
"With mixed emotions I informed President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry that I will resign in the middle of...
Cuban Lawmakers speak of the rapprochement between Cuba and the US
The five Cuban agents who gathered last Wednesday in Havana after the release of the three who remained in the...
Vestido de novia, Coral Audience Award
Vestido de novia, Marilyn Solaya´s debut film, has just won the Coral Audience Award at the recently concluded International Festival...
“The Luisma did more for anti-drug fight than many government campaigns”
Paco León is more awake than and just as charismatic as the Luisma, character he played in over 200 chapters...
Enrique Pineda Barnet: 25 years outside the Festival
Twenty-five years is a lifetime; my life minus one year. A quarter century without Decembers. All the time Enrique Pineda...
Benicio del Toro, from Che to Pablo Escobar
Former basketball player, ex painter, visceral artist, the renowned Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro left the skin when performing...
Confirmed, Havana is a Wonder city
By: Luis Miguel Cabrera Havana was chosen as one of the seven Wonder cities of the world, among the...
Conner Gorry: “Cubans are awesome; flowers come out of their mouths”
Many Cubans have called Conner Gorry crazy, because in 2002 she left New York and came to live in Havana,...
Gutiérrez Aragón, the filmmaker who left a rose from France in Havana
Renowned and winner of several awards Spanish filmmaker Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón is in Havana as unpublished script jury at the...
Buena Fe in Concert
Buena Fe duo devoted last Saturday its concert ¨Una luz por la esperanza¨ (A light of hope) to the Cuban...
Who makes the Coral statutes of the Havana Film Festival?
Now comes the hour of the Corals. Within a few days the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema will...
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