The Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Formation Centre and its Cajachica Publishers propose a new way of making books.
Despite the detractors that the Cuban Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Formation Centre could have, by now the renovation it has carried out in the country’s literature in terms of making visible young writers and letting them work is undeniable.
New measures to improve consumers’ purchasing power in one of the tensest areas of commerce in Cuba: the purchase of fresh products in the agricultural markets.
To expand the actions to benefit consumers, the Cuban government announced early this week a group of measures to regulate the prices of agricultural products. This year’s resolutions 157 and 162 of the Finance and Prices Ministry (MFP) came into force starting May 3. They establish retail ceiling prices for more than 20 food products harvested by the country’s agriculture and livestock producers, among other regulations.
Monsignor Juan de la CaridadGarcía, the new archbishop of Havana, will continue the dialogue with the State with his professional, respectful and very straightforward style.
When last April 26 a note from the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba announced the decision of the Holy See to accept the resignation of the Archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino – presented since 2011 – and to appoint in his place Monsignor Juan de la CaridadGarcía, who since 2002 to date was the head of the Camagüey diocese, in the first messages and telephone calls there was a tone of perplexity that almost immediately was tainted by a frank enthusiasm.
The character created by Leonardo Padura is premiering its somersault from literature to TV and cinema.
The first public presentation of the Spanish-German-Cuban miniseries “Las cuatroestaciones” (The Four Seasons) in Havana, whose principal character is the tormented investigator Mario Conde, created by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, took place at the 7th International Series Mania Festival, held in Paris April 15-24.
