In 2017, the university student Yanay Aguirre Calerín was involved in an argument with a taxi driver in Havana. After receiving racist comments, she was forced to get out of the vehicle. In Cuba, according to the 2012 Census data based on self-identified skin color, Whites represent 64.3% of the total population, Blacks represent 9.3%, and mulattoes 26.6%. …

Interprovincial transportation terminals and stations in Havana will resume operations as of Monday, although airports will not open for now, local newspaper Tribuna de La Habana reported. As part of the measures for phase three of the post-COVID-19 recovery approved in the Cuban capital, urban transportation was reestablished, with limited standing passengers on buses: up …

Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) will meet virtually for the first time on October 28, due to the epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19 on the island. Some 225 deputies will meet at the Havana Convention Center, while the rest will do so in their provinces, through videoconference, reported the official Cubadebate website. The …

Cuba changed its strategy this Monday to face the new coronavirus through a “new normal” that includes open public offices and shops and citizens’ greater mobility, but with the mandatory use of masks and maintaining social distance. In addition, the isolation in special centers of contacts of suspected cases will no longer be compulsory, as …

Help us keep OnCuba alive Cuba identified 17 new infections due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in three provinces, led by the capital, according to this Tuesday morning’s report by the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). The cases correspond to Havana (10 cases in five municipalities), Pinar del Río (six in Guane) and Sancti Spíritus (one …

The main alternative in the 2020 presidential elections, with respect to Cuba, is summarized in the probability of unlocking the asymmetric conflict with candidate Biden and with more uncertainty in a second term with Trump. Biden can start a virtuous cycle, in which the limited changes he envisions acquire momentum and generate in themselves new …

Professor Carlos Lazo, one of the most active defenders of the rapprochement between Cuba and the United States within the Cuban community in the northern country, launched a petition to Democratic candidate Joe Biden to “repeal the sanctions that weigh on the Cuban people” if he were to win the presidency. In the petition, published …

One week after the lifting of a group of restrictions, in force until then to contain the spread of COVID-19, Havana has a different face. It’s not only about increased activity in the streets, which there is, or the return of the buses to the urban landscape, or other opened shops, offices and restaurants and …

Help us keep OnCuba alive Without daily press conferences, Dr. Durán’s informative methodology were missed. The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported today that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has left 6,000 contagions since March with the 22 new cases registered in Cuba yesterday. Of the total, 21 of the new cases correspond to Cubans and one …

For a week now, Havana has been living its “new normal.” After being the epicenter of COVID-19 in Cuba for months, and experiencing an outbreak in August and September that forced the imposition of harsh restrictions, the Cuban capital began October with a de-escalation that seeks, according to its government, “to reactivate production and services,” …