Charada China in English: The 36 Original Cuban Bolita Numbers
The 36 original figures of the charada china in English, from horse (1) to pipe (36), how Cuban bankers hung the animal and paid 30 to 1, and how the list grew into the Cuban charada.
Author: Rosa Elena Machado
Graduate in Sociocultural Studies. She has worked as a researcher and journalist in various media in Cuba, Mexico and the United States.
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Cuba Customs Rules 2026: What You Can Bring and What You Pay
From October 12, 2026, Cuba lets travelers keep goods over the import limits by paying a 15% to 30% duty in US dollars. Here are the item limits, duty brackets, fees and the gaps the rules leave open.
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Landslides, Collapsed Buildings, and Downed Power Poles: The Initial Impact of the Earthquakes in Cuba
At dawn on Sunday, November 10, 2024, eastern Cuba was rocked by two earthquakes measuring 6 and 6.7 on the Richter scale, alarming the population. According to the National Center for Seismological Research (Cenais), the epicenters were located in the Caribbean Sea, 32 kilometers from Pilón in Granma Province. These quakes, among the strongest in…
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“The Havana Syndrome, a Sonic Attack and a Movie”
In 2016, a baffling phenomenon emerged in Havana, Cuba, affecting American and Canadian diplomats. This phenomenon, known as the “Havana Syndrome,” has intrigued the international medical and intelligence communities. Those affected reported a series of unexplainable neurological and auditory symptoms, creating a mystery that remains largely unsolved to this day. The first cases of the…
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Cuba will host the 69th World Cocktail Championship
Cuba will host the 69th World Cocktail Championship, to be held from November 4 to 9, 2022, at the Meliá Internacional Hotel in Varadero, as announced Tuesday by José Rafa Malém, president of the Cuban Bartenders Association (ACC). At a press conference, Rafa Malém informed that members of the International Bartenders Association (IBA) are supervising…
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Buying or eating beef in Cuba
In Cuba, eating beef has always been a problem. Although people with health vulnerabilities or children, receive through the supply book a diet of just under 1 kg of beef per month, access to this fiber has always been difficult. In fact, Cubans prefer not to mention the word “beef” because they know that they…
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Scientists from Cuba and Russia discuss material tests
Scientists from the Cienfuegos Center for Environmental Studies (CEAC) and the Moscow Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM) discussed climate testing of materials. The talks revolved around the Cuban-Russian station for climatic testing of materials and structural elements in the tropical conditions of the Caribbean, the 5 de Septiembre newspaper reported in its digital edition….
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Cuban singer Suylen Milanés, daughter of Pablo Milanés, has died
Cuban singer Suylen Milanés, daughter of Pablo Milanés, died this Sunday, January 30, at 5:20 a.m., in Havana, at the age of 50, due to a cerebral edema. Suylen had been in the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery for several days and was reported serious and brain dead, after suffering a stroke last Thursday,…
