Cuban dance company debuts act with American influence

Brown was in Havana to create a work for the independent dance company MalPaso, or Misstep. One of its founding dancers and resident choreographer, Osnel Delgado, produced another. The two works debuted last weekend in the capital city's Mella Theater Read More

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US, CUBA boxers renew old rivalry in Havana

Boxers from the U.S. and Cuba have gone glove-to-glove on Cuban soil for the first time in 27 years in a semipro World Series of Boxing clash that in many ways resembled a big-time Las Vegas bout Read More

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U.S. government built ‘Cuban Twitter’ to spur unrest

The plan was to develop a bare-bones "Cuban Twitter," using cellphone text messaging to evade Cuba's strict control of information and its stranglehold restrictions over the Internet. In a play on Twitter, it was called ZunZuneo — slang for a Cuban hummingbird's tweet. Read More

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Cuba Fights Contraband of Natural Species

Cuban authorities are deploying a multi-sector strategy to counter the contraband of birds and other natural species Read More

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Cuba's athletes get pay raises

Cuba reported on Monday the entry into force of the announced salary hikes for athletes, coaches and specialists in the sector, whose incomes will depend on the results and awards they obtain Read More

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Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez says her digital newspaper is launching soon

Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez says her planned digital newspaper is just weeks away from its debut Read More

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Law will let Cubans abroad invest on the island

Cuba’s new foreign investment law cuts taxes, opens new sectors to foreigners and allows investments by Cubans living abroad as part of ruler Raúl Castro’s efforts to lure fresh capital to his long-stagnant economy Read More

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At least 41 injured in bus crash in western Cuba

At least 41 people were injured on Tuesday when a bus flipped over on a highway in the tourist zone of Soroa, in Cuba's western Pinar del Rio province, government media reported Read More

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Vidatox, A Cuban Medicine Designed to Restore Quality of Life

Vidatox, a compound produced by the Cuban laboratory LABIOFAM, is a medicine that restores quality of life to patients with cancer and other diseases, where the main difficulty is pain, Doctor Mariela Guevara said here. Read More

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Low Fertility in Cuba, a Health Problem

The main demographic problem Cuba currently faces is fertility, with a continually declining birthrate. Statistics offered by Grissell Rodriguez, a researcher from the Center for Demographic Studies (Cedem), show that as of 1990, the fertility rate for teenagers began to decrease, becoming quite stable and with a slight continued decline until 2006. Read More

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