11 / 23 / 2009
ICAIC was founded 50 years ago when Fidel Castro was 32 and building his new government on the fly.
11 / 12 / 2009
Obama promised change and has already delivered some new policies, on both
domestic and foreign policy fronts.
11 / 12 / 2009
His work focuses on topics of Cuban independence, abolition, slavery,
popular religion, freemasonry, and the formation of “cubanidad” (i.e.
what defines the Cuban identity, and what it means to be Cuban).
11 / 11 / 2009
More than 30 nations have ratified their assistance to the 3rd
International Convention of Physical Activities and Sports (AFIDE) to
be held in this capital from November 9th to the 13th.
09 / 07 / 2009
The 47-year-old embargo has failed to topple the Castro regime, or force its liberalization. It may have actually strengthened the Castros, and engendered sympathy for him — and hostility towards the United States — in Latin America.
07 / 10 / 2009
The idea behind our trade embargo was to bring down the Cuban government. Half a century later, that hasn't happened. But oil is far from the only reason to end the trade embargo with Cuba. The embargo hurts us, while it has done little good for the people of Cuba.
08 / 02 / 2008
The Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) was introduced by the Cuban financial authorities to take out all foreing currencies from circulation, and offer an alternative that is in almost all senses equal to US dollars.
07 / 23 / 2008
In Baracoa, the first city founded by the Spanish colonizers in Cuba there is a hotel facility whose name has a special meaning. Everybody knows it as La Rusa hotel, however, this was not the name given by its first owners when they came from Europe after a long pilgrimage caused by the triumph of the October Revolution.
04 / 02 / 2010
James DeWolf Perry VI's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather used
African slaves to grow coffee on this rocky hillside outside
Havana,Madruga town and to him its thorny weeds and small sugar plots
feel haunted.
02 / 16 / 2010
The 9th Drum Fiesta, an international festival designed to promote
Cuban folklore, traditional music and jazz, will take place in
different cultural centers of this capital on March 9-14.
