Invited to participate in the Poetry International Festival, Yevgeniy Yevtushenkotravelled to Cuba. Seductive, congenial and mischievous like an 83-year-old adolescent, the Russian poet “performed” in Havana two months after The Rolling Stones did so, and though his myth is as old and sustained as the British band, and his charisma is not inferior to that of Mick Jagger, his readings did not fill a plaza or a space – as he did so many times in Russia decades ago – but his presence and his voice magnetised the places through which he passed, inscribing a new event on the island this 2016.
Despite the stigmas on the island about corporal design, tattoos are making way as a sign of a generation.
It is said that seamen introduced them in Cuba and that it was a religious sect, that of the ñañigos, who first assimilated them. The truth is that tattoos are today a usual practice among Cuban young people despite the fact that their parents or grandparents continue seeing them as characteristic of a marginal world.
The Kamaz truck industry aims to open an assembly plant on Cuban territory, in addition to supplying parts, equipment and machinery.
The news aroused strong reaction in the media: a few days ago the Russian Kamaz Corporation announced investments to assemble heavy trucks in Cuba. It aims to do this with this country’s Gesime firm. With this novelty, it gives continuity to the contract it signed a month before in Havana with the Tecnoimport import enterprise for the supply of trucks, tow trucks and spare parts to the Caribbean nation.
The banks and government have implemented measures to encourage self-employment in Cuba.
This year self-employed workers again surpassed the figure of half a million, in a reaction that coincides with the facilities of previous months for the access to credits for this sector of the economy, among other measures.
