The New York Philharmonic has put off plans to perform in Cuba between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2 due to US travel restrictions, which affected the travel plans of the company’s sponsors.
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans crammed Havana’s Revolution Square Sunday for the historic “Peace without Borders” concert organized by Colombian singer Juanes, who has received death threats from Miami-based Cuban exiles.
An award-winning Colombian musician, Juanes, is set to play a huge concert in Cuba Sunday, but the concert is seemingly becoming less about music and more about politics. The Cuban community in the US has slammed the musicians taking part.
Cuba's new President Raul Castro has decided to allow Cubans to use mobile phones, until now restricted to foreigners and government officials, in an effort to curb the black-market trade in phones. (Story: R. Martin)
Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone raised the Catholic Church's concern over the fate of Cuban prisoners in a meeting with new President Raul Castro in Havana on Tuesday.