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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
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ECONOMY-CUBA: To Sell or Not to Sell
Cubans today are deciding whether to sell, exchange, buy, deposit in the bank or continue hiding their dollars under the mattress - the list of options they have been mulling over since an imminent ban on the use of dollars was officially announced.Cubans Pin Hopes on Aqueduct
Residents of the Cuban city of Holguín are hoping that a waterworks project will save them from the drought they have been suffering for more than a year./ARTS WEEKLY/CUBA: Fascination with Argentine Culture Spans Generations
Carlos Gardel album covers, newspaper clippings and yellowed photographs once covered every inch of the walls in the narrow entryway on Havana's Neptuno Street where someone had turned their home into a tango museum.ECONOMY: U.S. Dollars No Longer Accepted in Cuba
A Cuban Central Bank resolution will bring an end to the circulation of U.S. dollars, which had been accepted as legal tender on the island since 1993, alongside the Cuban national currency.CUBA: Transvestites and Transsexuals Slowly Finding a Place in Society
Transvestites and transsexuals face varying degrees of discrimination and marginalisation all over the world, but in a country like Cuba, with a firmly entrenched culture of "machismo", life can be even more challenging.CUBA: Familiarity Breeds Tolerance for Sexual Diversity, Specialists Hope
They were born men, but they rarely refer to themselves as such. They are Cuba's transvestites and transsexuals, who are increasingly determined to defend their right to be themselves when they leave the refuge of their homes dressed as women./ARTS WEEKLY/LITERATURE-CUBA: A Year of Homage to Alejo Carpentier
After years of veritable famine in the publishing industry, brought on by the economic crisis, Cuban readers can now feast upon new editions of works by one of the country's most important literary figures, Alejo Carpentier.ENERGY-CUBA: Return of Scheduled Blackouts Is Actually a Relief
After months of frequent, lengthy and unexpected power outages, Cubans will now at least be able to plan their lives around the weekly blackout schedule to be published in local newspapers.HEALTH-CUBA: The Silent Killer
Pain in the chest or left arm will send most people running to the hospital, because they know these are often the symptoms of a heart attack. But unlike a heart attack, a brain attack - more commonly known as a stroke - does its damage in silence.CULTURE-CUBA: Hidden Story of the Daughters of Galicia
They were poor women from the northern Spanish province of Galicia. They came alone to Cuba in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and like so many Latin American women now emigrating to Europe, many of them ended up in poor-paying jobs as domestics or on the fringes of society as prostitutes.ENVIRONMENT-CUBA: Life and Death in Guanahacabibes
From the air, the forests look completely decimated. There are no flocks of parrots flying through. But then an iguana peeks out, a hummingbird flits into view, and it is clear that Cuba's Guanahacabibes Peninsula isn't dead after all.CUBA: Worries Grow as Ivan Slams into Neighbouring Jamaica
Cubans, nervously waiting for Hurricane Ivan as they receive news of the devastation it has been leaving behind it in neighbouring Caribbean nations, are preparing for what could turn out to be the worst natural disaster to hit this country in decades.CUBA: Hurricane Charley Swept Away the Legend – and Village – of Cajio
The statue of chief Cajío standing with arms crossed and head held high must face the sea to live up to its mission: protecting this fishing village in southern Cuba./ARTS WEEKLY/CUBA: Exhibit Seeks to Capture the Spirit of the 1960s
A tailored skirt, hand bags and other women's accessories - the latest fashions of the 1960s - are on exhibit in the museum alongside the uniforms of the Cuban government's literacy drive from the period: olive green hats and a grey shirt which could well be that of a sugar-cane cutter.MIGRATION-CUBA: The Day the ‘Hottest Summer’ Exploded
The Caribbean Sea is calm, the temperatures perhaps slightly higher, lengthy power outages are back again and tensions with Washington still mark the beat of life in Cuba. But though much is unchanged, things are far calmer on the migration front than they were a decade ago today.MIGRATION-CUBA: The Day the ‘Hottest Summer’ Exploded
The Caribbean Sea is calm, the temperatures perhaps slightly higher, lengthy power outages are back again and tensions with Washington still mark the beat of life in Cuba. But though much is unchanged, things are far calmer on the migration front than they were a decade ago today./ARTS WEEKLY/MUSEUMS-CUBA: Lezama Lima’s Home Reopens to Public
The modest house in the Cuban capital where José Lezama Lima wrote "Paradiso," one of the most outstanding Latin American novels of the 20th century, reopened its doors after a lengthy restoration effort banished the effects of time and mildew.CUBA-US: War of the Airwaves
The long history of broadcasting clashes between Cuba and the United States has entered a new chapter with the White House granting fresh funds to Radio and TV Martí, stations created by the U.S. government to broadcast anti-Castro programming from U.S. territory.CUBA: Spain’s Flamenco Icon Returns to His Beloved Island
Legendary Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer Antonio Gades died lamenting that he was not able to do more for the Cuban revolution, as indicated by a letter published here Friday, just hours after his ashes were brought to this Caribbean island nation in accordance with his last wishes.CUBA-US: Alliance Against Cancer
Cuba's Centre for Molecular Immunology (CIM) and a U.S. biotech company will work together to complete the clinical development of three experimental cancer drugs, the Cuban research institute announced Thursday.HIV/AIDS: Double Discrimination for Women in Dominican Republic
Rosa Polanco was in the hospital in the Dominican Republic, being treated for a liver disease, when she was illegally tested without her consent for HIV, the AIDS virus.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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