Havana street names with poetry

Havana street names with poetry

May 18, 2021 OnCuba Staff 0

It all began with the mess of an unplanned urbanization, letting things turn out as they came along, and “let whoever comes behind fix it.” The irregularity with which the Havana township of San Cristóbal was formed is reflected in the Cabildo (town council), where an alderman screamed out that Read more

NDI’s Cuba projects total $6.6 million

April 15, 2021 Cuba Money Project 0

State-run television on Friday linked Cuban performance artist and dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara to a U.S. government-funded democracy program. TV journalist Humberto López accused Otero of working for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, based in Washington, D.C. López displayed an agreement purportedly showing that NDI had agreed Read more

Caravans of love to end embargo: no walls can resist us

March 31, 2021 OnCuba Staff 0

Tampa! The place where José Martí, surrounded by Cuban émigrés, fertilized the “new pines” and discerned a new dawn for Cuba. Here, where among humble cigar makers and good Cubans, the Apostle conceived that longed-for and still elusive vision of building a nation “with all and for the good of all.” Read more

Havana: new school year to begin on December 7

December 7, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

The 2020-2021 school year, underway in almost all of Cuba since the beginning of November, will begin in Havana on December 7, confirmed the deputy director general of education of the Cuban capital. José Ángel Ordaz said to the Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) news agency that Havana province is “ready to assume the beginning of Read more

Predictions (III)

September 30, 2020 Rafael Hernández of OnCubaNews 0

Let’s imagine for a moment that there were three parties in Cuba, named the Renewed Socialism Party, the Cuban Revolutionary Party and the Fidelista Party. Let’s imagine that the three of them went to elections and governed according to popular vote, with platforms dedicated to the construction of a socialism Read more

Predictions (II)

September 24, 2020 Rafael Hernández of OnCubaNews 0

It seems obvious that you can’t look ahead without noticing where you are, and what is around you. In the Cuban case, this exploration is equivalent, as Rubén Matínez Villena would say, to an “exercise of brave discipline” to overcome the avalanche of perorations, opinions and counter-opinions that saturate the Read more