With the agreement to build power generating plants based on sugarcane biomass, Cuba has taken another important step in its programme to transform the national energy matrix. The works, which will start this year as was announced by the Azcuba Corporation, will be a new change of direction for the country’s traditional sugar agribusiness.

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.

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 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.