HAVANA (AP) — Legnis Cala Massó carefully removes her necklace and smiles as her coach slides her bright red boxing gloves over her French tip nails. The 31-year-old swings her wiry body into the ring ...

Even before they could climb into the ring, Cuba’s female boxers had to roll with the punches. While the island has long been famed for its top-level male boxers, women were blocked by an official ...

Tattoo Artist, Lili Aguero, saying: “Tattoos in Cuba are no longer taboo, it’s something all young people have. Everyone wants one, everyone wants tattoos.” Erias was founded in 2021 and has nearly ...

HAVANA (AP) – A Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White held its customary weekly protest without incident Sunday on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the island. The lack of any ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba was an early leader in recognizing women’s rights and equality after Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959. Women were put in positions of power and responsibility, and the government ...

The death of one of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has come at an especially difficult time for Cuba's small opposition movement. Laura Pollan, the founder of the Ladies in White, died last Friday ...

Cuban officials say women boxers will be able to compete officially after decades of restrictions, though they didn't yet confirm if that would be... HAVANA — Legnis Cala Massó carefully removes her ...

HAVANA — Legnis Cala Massó carefully removes her necklace and smiles as her coach slides her bright red boxing gloves over her French tip nails. Today is a day she’s been waiting for since she started ...