By Zahrah HAVANA TIMES – Today’s featured artists are percussionists Jose Luis Quintana “Changuito” (Cuba) and Giovanni Hidalgo (Puerto Rico) with a Conga Masters Duet recorded in 1995. [embedded content] Share your favorite songs with readers of Havana Times: The only requirement is that it be a Latin American or Caribbean artist, but the musician’s …

Havin Bank LTD, the London-based Cuban bank now under US Treasury Department sanctions. HAVANA TIMES – The United States announced sanctions on Thursday against Havin Bank LTD, a London-based Cuban entity also known as Havana International Bank, dealing a blow to the Cuban financial system, reported mercopress.com The Treasury Department said it had placed the …

Eusebio Leal took Barack Obama on a tour of Old Havana during his visit to Cuba in March, 2016. Photo: Nestor Marti HAVANA TIMES (dpa) – Cuban historian Eusebio Leal, who restored the colonial beauty of portions of old Havana and helped to turn the city into a tourist attraction, died Friday at the age …

By IPS-Cuba While increasing productivity has been a pressing matter for a long time in Cuba, some population groups and members of the scientific community have expressed their concern with regard to environmental and human health risks associated with using GM crops. Photo: todoelcampo.com.uy HAVANA TIMES – Afectada por la crisis internacional que trajo la …

Help us keep OnCuba alive A French bank has decided to comply with an order from the U.S. Treasury Department and suspend the transfer of remittances to the island originating in the United States. The decision came after the Trump administration decided to include in the list of Cuban assets a London-based banking entity, Havana …

Help us keep OnCuba alive A synthetic peptides production plant, in which a drug used successfully in Cuba against COVID-19 will be manufactured, was inaugurated this Thursday at Havana’s Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB). President Miguel Diaz-Canel opened the plant. At the plant, identified with number 14 in the CIGB, the active pharmaceutical …

Help us keep OnCuba alive The data on COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Cuba continue as follows: 11 new infections as a result of the 3,696 tests carried out in the country, the number of active patients increased to 164 and, as in 19 days ago, no deaths from the disease were reported. …

By Ricardo Torres  (Progreso Weekly) Photo: pixabay HAVANA TIMES – The “Economic and Social Strategy for the Strengthening of the Economy” announcement has generated a far-reaching debate among experts and citizens, inside and outside Cuba. The moment for the new economic policy appears in the midst of a dire situation comparable to the deep recession …