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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
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CUBA-U.S.: Fight Continues for Open Travel by U.S. Citizens
Pressure from the U.S. tourism industry and farmers on their national lawmakers is creating cracks in the rigid 40-year-old embargo against Cuba, despite this week's setback for a U.S. bill on lifting the ban on travel by its citizens to the Caribbean island.CUBA: The World – Via the U.N. – Against the U.S. Embargo
Cuban officials are regarding Tuesday's overwhelming United Nations vote condemning the U.S. economic embargo against the island as a major political victory, and are applauding the international community's "solidarity"./ARTS WEEKLY/ CUBA: Spectre of Censorship Haunts Biennial
The pluralistic nature of the Havana Arts Biennial is being called into question in its eighth edition since emerging in 1984 as a space for artists of the developing South.CUBA: Contradiction Between Number of Abortions and Ideal Family Size
By the time they reach the end of their child-bearing years, a large proportion of Cuban women have had at least one abortion. However, many women also feel frustrated that they have not had the number of children they would have liked.POPULATION: Cuba’s Ageing ‘Baby-Boomer’ Generation Presents Challenges
Cuba has had to adapt to the impact of its own generation of ''baby-boomers'', born in the 1960s. First it was a question of providing enough spots in child-care centres and primary schools, and in the not-so-distant future, the pensions system will begin to feel the burden./ARTS WEEKLY/CUBA: Camaguey’s Enchanted House of Art
Few cities in Cuba boast a house like that of artists Ileana Sánchez and Joel Jover, which is open all day to local and foreign visitors, and does triple duty - as an art gallery, studio/workshop and home.MEDIA: Foreign Correspondents Face Special Challenges in Cuba
Breaking the wall of silence that surrounds certain issues and events and finding a source who is willing to confirm news that everyone already knows about through the grapevine may be the biggest challenges facing foreign correspondents in Cuba.MEDIA: Foreign Correspondents Face Special Challenges in Cuba
Breaking the wall of silence that surrounds certain issues and events and finding a source who is willing to confirm news that everyone already knows about through the grapevine may be the biggest challenges facing foreign correspondents in Cuba.RIGHTS-CUBA: Homosexuality Takes a Step Out of the Closet
As other countries legalise same-sex civil unions and adoptions by homosexuals, the question of homosexuality has only just become a subject of public debate in Cuba.CUBA: Survival Strategies
Although she considers herself one of the lucky ones in Cuba, Sara Abreu, a university graduate with a good job, is too focused on day-to-day survival strategies to even think about the future./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-CUBA: The Stark Beauty of ‘Havana Suite’
Day-to-day life in the Cuban capital is a doctor who changes into a clown costume when his hospital shift is over, a railwayman who plays saxophone at a church, a mother who every night readies her transvestite son's costume, and an old woman whose only income comes from selling peanuts.CULTURE-CUBA: Compay Segundo Takes Flight from This World
”When one dies, one turns into a butterfly” was a phrase oft spoken by Compay Segundo, the veteran Cuban musician who rose to international fame six years ago as one of the stars of the album ”Buena Vista Social Club”. He died Monday at his home in Cuba, aged 95.CUBA: Beach Recovery to Benefit Tourism, Environment
The restoration plan for Cuba's tourism hot spot, Varadero beach, has proved resoundingly successful, achieving the retention of its famed fine white sands, expansion of beach width and preservation of the coastal platform.CUBA: US Broadcasts a ‘Provocation’ in Already-Tense Relations
While U.S. President George W. Bush avoided announcing new sanctions against Cuba in a recent message to the Cuban exile community, a special airplane sent by the Pentagon flew within range of the island to broadcast Radio and TV Martí signals - which apparently had limited reception.TOURISM-CARIBBEAN: Marketing a Zone Free of SARS, Terrorism
In today's hard-hit global tourism industry, it is becoming more important to be able to advertise a destination as an area free of problems like the SARS epidemic or terrorism threats than to promote natural and architectural attractions.CUBA: Emigrants Lose Their Homes, Their Country – ‘And We Lose Them’
Marlene Guzmán and her uncles, aunts, siblings and cousins used to meet every Sunday at her grandmother's house in Havana. But the reunions are much smaller now, because so much of her family has emigrated to Miami since 1990./ARTS WEEKLY/THEATRE-CUBA: Naked Celestina
The months go by and the long queues continue outside the Trianón cinema-theatre in the Cuban capital, where 'El Público' troupe is staging a controversial interpretation of the Spanish masterpiece "La Celestina".CUBA-US: The Vicious Circle
Gradual progress towards an easing, and eventual lifting, of the four-decade U.S. embargo against Cuba was cut short this month by the stiff sentences handed down to 75 dissidents and the execution of three men who hijacked a ferry and took hostages in a frustrated bid to sail to Florida.RIGHTS-CUBA: Broad Reaction Against Executions of Hijackers
Last week's execution of three men who orchestrated the hijacking of a passenger ferry in a frustrated attempt to defect to the United States has been widely criticised in Cuba, although the death penalty itself was not called into question./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-CUBA: A Festival for Those Low on Cash
Cuba is preparing to receive a selection of films from outside the major international movie industry, the aim being to give the best of the bunch prizes that are much more useful than the traditional statues or plaques.HEALTH-LATAM: Tens of Thousands Lack Access to AIDS Drugs
Tens of thousands of people living with HIV, the AIDS virus, in Latin America and the Caribbean lack access to the anti-retroviral medication needed to delay the onset of full-blown AIDS.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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