An actor always in Cuba’s headlines.
A joke, which is already several decades old, says that in Cuba there are only three problems: breakfast, lunch and dinner, as if food were the only daily anguish. Transportation is also a long-time headache in the morning, afternoon and evening, as stressing as the power cuts and the fear that they could return, as if they were dark swallows.
From that now peaceful German city, the author of “La novela de mi vida” takes us back to important figures and moments in History that no human being should forget.
A congress of German and Latin American Hispanicists have allowed me to visit for the first time the city of Weimar and the hours I spent walking through its now peaceful streets. Contemplating its buildings and going to museums and prodigious libraries have left in my retina and my mind, like few times in my stays in other parts of the world, the tenacious aftertaste of having been in History.
Ever since it was founded in 1938 in Mexico City, the International Institute of Iberian-American Literature (IILI) has continuously dedicated itself to the international study and spread of literature, culture and literary criticism of this geographic zone, a task consolidated through its Congresses and the renowned magazine Revista Iberoamericana.
Cuban Leonardo Padura was the writer invited to give the inaugural lecture of the 41st Congress of the IILI, following an already established tradition in which a contemporary author of renowned prestige is always chosen for the opening of the event.
With the upcoming opening of a cooperation office in Havana and a 231-million-euro fund, France aims to increases its investments in Cuba.
France agreed to create in Havana an office to increase its investments in Cuba as part of another sign of the mutual interest in speeding up the economic rapprochement between both countries. The agreement to open the representation of the French Development Agency (AFD) was signed on Friday July 29 in Havana by Cuban Foreign Trade and Investments Minister Rodrigo Malmierca and officials from the agency.
