Cuba

By Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera HAVANA – There are some who describe them as a comedy, because they are elections dominated by a single party, something that can create a unanimity whose…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Cuba this year launches two of its most ambitious economic reform plans: a kind of market bubble with state-run…
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From Prensa Latina HAVANA (Jan. 9) - Just five days before new immigration changes take effect regarding the flow of Cubans to and from the country, local authorities are providing…
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Summary of a conversation/interview between Francisco Aruca, director of Radio Progreso Alternativa, and Manuel Alberto Ramy, correspondent in Havana for that outlet and Progreso…
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On the morning of Friday, Jan. 2, 1959, Americans who purchased The New York Times learned about a significant news event. "Batista and regime flee Cuba," said a headline atop Page…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – Once upon a time there was a king named Herod. One day, his aides told him that, according to reports, a child had been born who would become a king.…
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HAVANA, 18 Dec 2012 –Progreso Semanal/Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA)– Writer, journalist and literary critic Leonardo Padura Fuentes, 57, won the highest prize of Cuban literature,…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – If anyone in Cuba with street smarts and ingenuity would set up a row of chairs along the well-known Salvador Allende Avenue (the former Charles III…
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By Dalia Céspedes As soon as I open "Il Sogno di una Cosa," the novel by Italian poet Pier Paolo Passolini, I find this marvelous quote from the prophet Karl Marx,…
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HAVANA, Dec. 17, 2012 –Progreso Semanal/Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA)– The semisubmersible platform Songa Mercur arrived in the northern coast of Villa Clara, in the center of…
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