Although less famous than other colonial fortresses in Havana, it is a paradigmatic example of the military architecture of its time and today houses pieces designed by the Italian genius.
In a statement published on its website, the Cuban Foreign Ministry criticized the “irrational hardline policy” of the current U.S. government and assured that “this turn of the screw” by Washington will affect “countless families.”
The postponed inauguration of Cuba’s tallest skyscraper, after several announced dates, fuels conjecture, expectations, criticism and also indifference.
Although some media have described her as “the queen without a crown,” the actress, presenter and businesswoman is at the height of her career.
In one of the surprises of his Latin American and first international tour, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this Monday that he is the new acting head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), promising to put an end to the “insubordination” in that federal entity. “I am the acting director of USAID,” Rubio told reporters on his visit to El Salvador, noting that the level of ‘insubordination’ in that agency “makes it impossible to carry out some kind of serious review,” reported the French press agency (AFP). “Every dollar we spend, every program we finance must be aligned with the national interest of the United States, and the USAID has a history of ignoring that and deciding that, somehow, they are a global charity separate from the national interest,” Rubio told the press accompanying him on his trip, according to a report by the Spanish news agency EFE. The head of Washington's diplomacy said he was “very concerned” about reports that USAID employees are “refusing to cooperate” with the new administration of Donald Trump investigating the profiles of each assistance program and the destination of the funds. A pillar of Soft Power Founded in 1961 by...
The news was confirmed by Alberto Javier Quiñones Betancourt, vice president of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC), during the radio-television program Mesa Redonda, dedicated to the thorny issue of dollarization.
“With the aim of creating a unique enterprise, we started calling everyone and found two great master bakers who have helped us a lot.”
The Venezuelan-Canadian remembers the shooting of “La Santa” on the island, with the director Freddy Loons.
I begin a segment of this column with an essential person in my life, whose “main routine has been to be nonconformist, to give in to curiosity.”
“I think I have achieved a great deal at 9 years old, but obviously I have not achieved it alone.”
From the generation that was the heir of one of the greatest teams in history, she now works in the field of design and fashion and recalls with gratitude her sporting life.
An informal research venture sheds light and color on inequality in different areas of the social organism that we are.
A business model was recognized that combines maximum quality in its management and dividends, innovative spirit and social contribution, and is endowed with 5,000 USD as investment capital.
The story of a Cuban couple and their agroecological plot of land, where they care for 18 types of avocados, okra, two cats, two dogs, 300 species of orchids and much more.
This Monday, a strategy for the development of artificial intelligence on the island was presented. Cuba must aspire to “be at the forefront” in this matter, “at least in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Díaz-Canel considered.
Five of the country’s seven main intelligence agencies concluded that it is “highly unlikely” that a foreign adversary is behind the incidents.
The capital, with its neighborhoods and people, was this section's great protagonist, which we hope to maintain in 2025.
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As every year, I follow the family tradition of making this list. But this is the first time that, having written them for myself, it occurs to me to publish them.
In a year of special difficulties for the country, art did not stop, and it even seems to have shown an encouraging side for many.
Some of the topics of the meeting were territorial and urban planning, prevention of and attention to gender violence and racial discrimination.
Despite government plans to mitigate the crisis, blackouts did not cease in Cuba in the year that is ending, while the SEN continues to lose generation capacity.
A year in which “nothing happened” between the United States and Cuba?
As December draws to a close, we suggest revisiting the most significant — and almost always controversial — economic regulations and measures established on the island in an extremely difficult year for Cubans.
Natural disasters had an unusual behavior at the end of the year. The hurricane season was active and the east of the island shook with intense tremors.
