CUBAfest 2010 presents: Directly from Cuba CHARANGA HABANERA with his guest “El Chacal” in Montreal,performing their hit “Gozando en la Habana” El Chacal is Cuba’s new sensation and featured on Charanga Habanera’s new album “No mires la Caratula”, they will perform together live on stage for the first time in Canada. Tickets available at the office of...
It was to be expected. 450 Cuban emigres are participating in a conference in Havana, Cuba. Ultra-reactionaries of the Cuban American National Fioundation and The Cuba Liberty Council, the cream of Miami's Cuban Mafia, immediately inveighed against the participants, in a typical knee jerk reaction, by declaring that "the emigres are just those 450 authorized to return to Cuba and who are supporters...
In honor of the resilient and brave people of Haiti, here's a poem by a master poet and lover of her people everywhere, Ntozake Shange. Bocas: A Daughter's Geography by Ntozake Shange i have a daughter/ mozambique i have a son/ angola our twins salvador & johannesburg/ cannot speak the same language but we fight the same old men/ in the new world we are so hungry for the morning we're trying to...
HAVANA -- Cuba's Roman Catholic cardinal will read a Christmas message on state television for the second straight year, another small sign the once officially atheist communist government is warming to religion.
The United States said it "strongly deplores" the forcible detention and beating last week of three Cuban bloggers on their way to a peaceful march in Havana. Award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, was detained and beaten along with two fellow bloggers by Cuban secret police on November 6. "We have expressed...
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Oct 29 (IPS) – Three new international cooperation agreements channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country. ”Thanks to the joint work of the international community, the United Nations [...]
Yesterday was a historical day of enourmous proportions. There are 194 countries in the United Nations. 187 of those countries meeting at the General Assembly, where the imperialists do not have veto powers, unequivocally and categorically condemned the arrogant continuation of the Cuba embargo by U.S. president Barack Obama. What a big fraud this Democratic president has turned out to be on the Cuba...
Trade and investment relations between South Africa and Cuba will be strengthened during the Havana International Trade Fair, the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said on Wednesday. "The fair will provide an opportunity for deputy minister Thandi Tobias-Pokolo and her Cuban counterpart to discuss issues on the bilateral agenda, with particular focus on trade and investment,"...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Spain's foreign minister met with Cuban President Raul Castro on Monday and said the communist leader affirmed his commitment to economic reform and expressed his desire to continue improving relations with the United States.
by Robyn Francis Target ONE EARTH – Living Within Our Footprint and What we can Learn from Cuba Robyn Francis reports on her visit to Cuba to experience 'first hand' the only nation on earth living within its ecological footprint. Cuba provides important food for thought for everyone enjoying 'western' affluence to meet the challenge of radical and rapid reduction of consumption and waste--as...
The "Paz sin Fronteras" concert organized by the Colombian singer Juanes and celebrated on Sunday September 20, 2009, at iconic Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, ignited many passions and heated debates. Posts from Cuban bloggers, living in Cuba and in other countries, show the diversity of opinions on Cuba's political situation and future.
Uncommon Sense reports the arrest and subsequent release of Cuban activist and journalist Belinda Salas Tapanes in Havana. “Salas is president of the Federation of Latin American Women (FLAMUR), one of the more effective opposition groups in Cuba.”
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