The Cuban writer returns to Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia, for a festival that promotes not just literature, but also cinema, visual arts, music, journalism, geopolitics and the environment.
Leonardo Padura was one of the writers invited to the 20th edition of the Hay Festival held this year in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, considered one of the most important cultural events of the language in the Latin American sphere.
Dozens of companies came to the 2017 Cuba Oil & Gas Summit to investigate the country’s oil potential and investment alternatives.
Oil production and prospecting was confirmed last week as one of the activities in which Cuba is most interested in the participation of foreign capital. Scores of companies from 15 countries came to the 2017 Cuba Oil & Gas Summit in Havana attracted by the geological studies pinning hopes on new discoveries in oil areas of Cuban northern coast.
Two Cuban awardwinners in 2017 in Poetry and Studies on the Black Presence in Contemporary America and the Caribbean.
Every year in January hundreds of Latin American writers answer Cuba’s Casa de las Américas’ summons with the hope of being awarded in the perhaps most important Spanish language literary contest.
The Cuban baseball championship and its instability.
Cuban baseball has a new champion: the team of the Alazanes of Granma won the 56th National Series and got the first crown for this province after 40 years in the championship (they made their debut in 1977). With that victory they also became the island’s representatives in the Caribbean Series, which concludes today in Culiacán, Mexico.
