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      Cuba’s Role in Preventing Iran War

      Cuba’s Fidel Castro continued on Friday morning his campaign of alert of an imminent new war in the Middle East. He spoke to students and professors on the steps of the University of Havana and centered his speech on a call for US President Obama to avoid setting off a war against Iran with nuclear consequences.

    featuredimage Cuba Has a Nationality Conflict

    It turns out that the “law of laws” —with which compliance is mandatory by all Cubans— says that “dual citizenship will not be admitted. As a consequence, when foreign citizenship is acquired, Cuban citizenship will be annulled.”


    featuredimage Flying on a Caiman

    How can the scales of the Cuban caiman be turned into feathers? In Amerindian mythology, such a transformation is indispensable for the crocodile to fly. GECNA (the Our America Cultural Studies Group) aspires to defy not the gravity on the island, but something that is even more restricting: the individual ego.


    rightcolimage I’m God When I Give Life

    I am God when I give life to a character in the flesh of an actor and when I make that character have conflicts, confront them and either resolve them or not. I am God when I decide on the environment that surrounds the character and how it influences them.

    rightcolimage The Criminalization of Trades in Cuba

    Marcos is also a businessman. He’s able to provide constant and quality service six days a week. He fixed my Russian fan while he gave direction to an 18 year-old pupil who was checking the coil on a Korean fan. Marco’s porch is a veritable educational institution.

    rightcolimage Invoking Rights…for Human Beings

    After a prolonged break imposed by one of those terrible “occupational diseases” (tendinitis), I am now returning to this column with Havana Times and am filled with the desire to share my ideas and experiences.

    rightcolimage Giving Birth in Cuba

    My niece Isabela was just born. As occurs with all Cuban babies, she had to come into the world in one of our “vigilant” hospital institutions. In this case it was the renowned Maternidad Obrera hospital in Havana.