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The Cobre Steel Band

Steel Band

With a fruitful, 30-year career under its belt, the Cobre Steel Band has won a spot in the musical tastes of Cubans, and particularly among the country’s most outstanding performers, who recognize the uniqueness of the finely tuned timbre its members extract from their instruments created from metal barrels.

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The socialist state enterprise is the key link in Cuba’s economic model

Cuba economia

Deficiencies persist in central enterprise management, noted Marino Murillo Jorge, head of the Policy Implementation and Development Commission, during a recent meeting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez and government leaders

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The heroism of Cuban workers

primero de mayo cuba

Cuban trade unions began the month of April with the convocation of May Day marches and the recognition of workers at the Comprehensive Automotive Services Enterprise (EISA) for their contribution to the recovery in Havana following the January 27 tornado.

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The honor of helping Mozambique

medicos mozambique

Damage caused by Hurricane Idai in Mozambique has once again mobilized Cuban solidarity, with a medical brigade from the Henry Reeve Contingent, specialized in disaster situations and serious epidemics, providing help in the city of Beira, Sofala province. The extreme weather left 468 dead, while another 259 perished in neighboring Zimbabwe and at least 56 in Malawi.

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Only global support and solidarity can secure Lula’s release

Lula y Dilma

There are, from the legal point of view, recourses that can be used to secure Lula’s release, but international pressure is needed. “It is necessary that the honest people of the world demand an end to this injustice,” stated Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh, lawyer of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in a meeting held in José Garcerán Hall of the University of Havana’s Law School.

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The Caribbean, a crucible of sovereign nations

Caribe Nicaragua

The peoples who live in the Caribbean have been at the mercy of hegemonic powers since the beginning of the modern era, creating riches with the blood and sweat under slavery. This is a history some wish to erase via mechanisms of cultural colonization – the same forces that attack any efforts toward regional integration.

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The Association of Caribbean States must continue to be the mainstay of Greater Caribbean unity

Diaz AEC

Speech by Miguel M. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, at the VIII Meeting of the Association of Caribbean States, in Managua, Nicaragua, March 29, 2019, Year 61 of the Revolution

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May Day: another resounding demonstration of our unity

primero mayo

The Federation of Cuban Workers (CTC) and all national trade unions convoke our entire people to a massive march to celebrate International Workers day, May 1, under the banner of Unity, Commitment, and Victory.

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Regulating the fishing industry

Pesca

The proposed Fisheries Law seeks to perfect the legal framework that regulates this activity, under the principles of conservation, sustainable use, a preventive approach, implementation of scientific-technological criteria, and protection of ecosystems.

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XIII Havana Biennial: The reality of what is possible

Bienal Habana

The confirmation of the international artists from 52 nations set to participate in the 12th Havana Biennial, April 12 through May 12, is an unequivocal sign of the interest aroused in the most important visual arts event organized by Cuba, and of the clear cultural policy committed to its continuity.