According to official figures, approximately 800,000 young Cubans are disengaged from both study and work. The information was presented by the Director of the Center for Youth Studies, Keyla Estévez García, during a meeting in which the First Secretary of the Communist Youth Union (UJC), Aylín Álvarez García, participated together with leaders of that organization…
Last October, thousands of people took to the streets of Havana and other Cuban cities as a result of the extensive and annoying daily blackouts. The energy production deficit has affected the country since 2021 and was one of the main causes of the mass demonstrations on July 11 and 12, 2021, along with the…
Who is really Lis Cuesta Peraza, the wife of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel? What does she do? What is her biography? Is it true that she has a tattoo on her back? Why is she often the subject of memes?
This Thursday, October 6, MW Urbanos app was presented by the Ministry of Transportation (Mitrans). The novel APK provides details on the Cuban capital’s public transportation system, bus routes and stops, and interchange points between origins and destinations. The Apklis repository (the “Cuban Google Play”) contains a download link for the application. Móvil Web Urbanos…
Cuba is a country of beautiful landscapes and warm people. Internationally we are also known as a nation blessed by the beauty and diversity of our women. We wanted to create a list – infinitely expandable, we know – of beautiful Cuban girls with a remarkable public projection. No, it’s not just beautiful faces and…
Some believed that the latest figures meant a decline in the number of Cubans arriving in the United States, especially with Nicaragua as the point of departure, but the US Customs and Border Protection Department has just updated the information for the month of July… and it comes with surprises. Last July, 20,496 Cubans were…
The Cuban capital will begin to suffer the terrible blackouts, just like (or almost like) the rest of the country. This was announced this Friday at an economic meeting in Havana. Starting next week, the Cuban capital will begin to suffer scheduled blackouts of 4 hours duration, every three days. The blackouts are scheduled to…
The complaint of mother Maritza Barrios went viral this week. Several social media users shared her despair. Barrios felt desperate and helpless as she saw her son, who is blind and autistic, lying on a stretcher waiting for an ambulance to drive him to the hospital. People who sympathized with the situation contributed to share…
Charade is, in Cuba, a list of 100 numbers whose first 36 meanings were taken from the Chinese charade. The remaining ones are a living body, with meanings that come from the Cuban imaginary and history. Widespread meanings of the “la Bolita” numbers 1. Horse, sun, inkwell, Fidel Castro, camel, small fish. 2. Butterfly, man,…
Omar Quintero Montes de Oca, known in Cuba and the world as the promise payer, is getting closer every day to his destiny at El Cobre Sanctuary, in Santiago de Cuba, and has invited the group Buena Fe to accompany him. According to what the Guantanamo group announced on its Facebook page, Omar contacted them…
Documentary fraud is a phenomenon that alerts the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT), due to the almost half a thousand papers that have been seized from Cuban travelers that turned out not to be legitimate and false. As explained in the Round Table, January 20, the Head of Identification, Immigration and Foreigners Departmen of…
Cuban actor Alejandro Cuervo surprised his girlfriend Arletis Rodriguez and proposed to her during a show he offered on the night of Monday, February 14 at the Tropicana cabaret, on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. After congratulating all those in love, the artist asked his girlfriend to come on stage: “Well, as I am one…