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☆ Cuba's 'Ironman' beats himself with a sledge hammer ... and survives unscathed
  + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Anett Rios Alexander Frometa | Anett Rios | Alexander Frometa | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
What shocks the crowd is not the apparent self-mutilation, but rather the fact that he appears to come away unscathed. Then he returned to beating himself with his sledgehammer, studiously pounding every joint in his arm to the winces of onlookers. "It's all real, nothing fabricated," said Edward Carbonell, who watched Tomasen in awe. "I want to be remembered as someone who pushed the limits of what was possible," he said. Reporting by Anett Rios and Alexander Frometa; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Lino Tomasen, Mike Tyson, Tomasen, Edward Carbonell, Anett Rios, Alexander Frometa, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: HAVANA, Havana, Cuban, Mexico City, Cuba
☆ Cubans, waylaid by weather and fuel shortage, march for May Day five days late
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] People gather at the seafront Malecon to watch the International Worker's Day celebration in Havana, Cuba May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandre MeneghiniHAVANA, May 5 (Reuters) - Cubans rallied on Havana's Malecon waterfront boulevard to celebrate International Worker's Day on Friday, five days after the planned May 1 event was called off due to foul weather and a fuel crisis that has crippled public transport on the island. "This year it was not possible, due to the fuel situation," said university professor Javier Sanchez, 24, as he cheered during the morning celebration. Though May 1 dawned clear in Havana, a wind and rain storm the previous day hindered preparations, leading Cuban officials to postpone the event until Friday. Cuban state-run media estimated that 100,000 Cubans had gathered on the Malecon by early Friday morning.
☆ Cubans head to the polls, all eyes on voter turnout
  + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Cuba´s government, saddled by shortages, inflation and growing social unrest, has encouraged unity in Sunday´s vote, calling on citizens to vote together in a broad show of support for the communist leadership. Ana Lydia Velazquez, a 78-year old retired Havana resident, told Reuters that message resonated with her. "I believe all Cubans should go to vote, to help our country improve, and advance," she said. Anti-government forces, primarily off-island in a country that restricts dissident political speech, have encouraged the opposite, calling on Cubans to abstain and labeling the election a "farce." The winning 470 candidates, who serve for five years, will choose the next president of Cuba from among their ranks, further raising the stakes of Sunday's vote.
☆ As Cuba election day nears, some voters ask, 'why bother?'
  + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Dave Sherwood | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
HAVANA, March 22 (Reuters) - Like a growing number of Cubans, 77-year-old Havana resident Humberto Avila says he will likely sit out Sunday's legislative elections. The retired university professor says he's done the math - 470 candidates, 470 open seats - and sees no point in voting. Abstention has spiked in recent elections, rising to a four-decade high of 31% of eligible voters in municipal elections in November. "This vote is for the Revolution ... and to continue to defend our socialist system," Diaz-Canel told textile workers in Santa Clara. Rey Lazaro Blanco, a 19-year old geography student at the University of Havana, told Reuters he will vote on Sunday.
☆ Award-winning U.S. saxophonist heads to Cuba for rare collaborative performance
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Anett Rios Alexander Frometa | Anett Rios | Alexander Frometa | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Nash - one of the United States´ best-known contemporary jazz performers, will lead a project called Jazz X. He and several Cuban musicians will compose new works inspired by visual art in Cuba´s National Museum of Fine Arts, then present them together to the public in several sessions. Well-known Cuban musicians Alejandro Falcón, Arnulfo Guerra y Ruy López Nussa will perform alongside Nash. The project, Nash said, brings together musicians from the two countries, and art of different forms, in a fusion of creativity across cultures and mediums. The U.S. economic embargo on Cuba has for decades restricted most travel and official collaboration between the two countries.
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