Will these supports substitute the traditional ones to the detriment of reading?
Despite Cuba’s backwardness compared to other more developed countries, young people already cling to the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the midst of an evident decrease in the habit of reading and in favour of the audio visual.
The capital’s government adopted control actions in response to the hike which occurred in early July in the prices for private transportation.
Tensions in prices and services have affected private transportation in Havana after the government approved measures to regulate energy consumption. In early July, the Council of Ministers cut the expenses of the electricity programme and the allocation of fuel to the State’s entities for the second semester. A first reaction was the increase in the prices for the taxis known as “boteros” or “almendrones”.
The new forms of business organisation are growing moderately after the boost they got in the first two years.
Cooperatives continue growing in the non-agricultural sector of the Cuban economy, though at a slower pace than at the start. After giving them the green light in November 2012 for their incorporation to economic activities where they previously did not exist, the government is cautiously manoeuvring before favouring the expansion of this form of non-state work. This year, however, they are tending to gain force, coinciding with some measures approved to back them.
Evocación de uno de los más importantes artistas cubanos del siglo XX, un hombre solitario que en apenas un lustro de febril creación dejó un conjunto de cuadros y dibujos excepcionales, además de un puñado de narraciones.
Durante los mediodías de verano remontar una calle habanera puede ser una forma refinada de torturarse. Camino por Trocadero y me decido a buscar sombra y un poco de silencio en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
