Cuba has been under US embargo for 60 years. It’s time for that to end

From: The Guardian

By: David Adler

There is no embargo on Cuba.” This bold claim – made by Florida senator Marco Rubio on the floor of the US Senate last July – has quickly hardened into conventional wisdom across aisles of US Congress and among Rubio’s base of support in the Cuban diaspora. The US blockade is a myth, a bogeyman for the Communist party of Cuba. “Cuba is not isolated,” Rubio said. Those who say otherwise either “don’t know what they’re talking about … or they’re liars. Those are the only two options.”

Fallece la artista cubana Carmen Herrera a los 106 años

Artist Carmen Herrera in front of some of her paintings. Credit: Matthew Carasella

(Tomado de: The Independent)

Carmen Herrera, la artista nacida en Cuba cuyas pinturas de colores radiantes y formas geométricas pasaron inadvertidas por décadas antes de que se volviera una sensación en el mundo del arte, ha fallecido. Tenía 106 años.

El artista Antonio Bechara dijo al diario The New York Times que Herrera falleció en su casa en Manhattan el sábado.