Cuba has over two million people that are more than 60 years of age, 19 percent of the total inhabitants, and it is the first Latin American country with the oldest population, announced an expert in Havana on April 28.
Category Archives: Society
The Cuban Five: Honorary Members of UNEAC
The Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) conferred on Monday the status of honorary members to the five Cuban antiterrorists who suffered unjust imprisonment in the United States. It was conferred during a meeting attended by Miguel Diaz-Canel, member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party and First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers.
Massive Turn-out at Second Round of Municipal Elections
Over 1.2 million Cubans were called to vote at the second round of municipal elections in 1.166 electoral districts, in all 149 Cuban municipalities needing to complete the total of local government representatives.
Over 300 thousand workers of the health will march the first of May
Encouraged by the return to Cuba of the five anti-terrorists who were imprisoned for years in US jails and of the health professionals who fought Ebola in western Africa, nearly 60 thousand health workers will join the May Day march next Friday at Havana´s Revolution Square.
Life experience of Cubans struggling against Ebola: Potó, good friend(I)
Young José Luis Sánchez Pérez is one of the Havana health worker who faced the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leona, where- as the colaborator himself says –an important but atypical mission was accomplished. Many lives had to be saved, with endless love for the fellow people, but without kisses or hugs.