For more than two weeks all detergents for use
Pet stores have disappeared from collecting currency.
As much as walk in your search for the businesses located in streets
crowded city, as Belascoaín, Monte, Diez de Octubre,
Reina Galiano and do not find the product of any brand or price. Up
which was for sale in bulk, which was about the price of a dollar
packet-no sealing, very reliable option but more affordable-
also extinct. Read Article
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The Pediatric Hospital Guantanamo Pedro Agustín Pérez confirmed Radio Martí’s income children infected with dengue. A clinic worker said entry continues.Patients with symptoms of the disease, but insisted on using the official euphemism “for suspected dengue” and did not specify the number of infected, would only say: “more or less”. Read Article
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One in five Cubans drivers driving under the influence of alcohol, infraccción that shot one in the current summer and was the cause of a dramatic accident that left seven people dead and over 40 injured in the Camagüey province, on Sunday. Of the 5.147 practiced breath tests for drivers the summer months throughout the […]
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A dengue outbreak in eastern Cuba has forced the authorities to make a vocational school in a hospital, according to reports from the area. In turn, a city already suffering from a cholera epidemic now facing an increase in the number of dengue-carrying mosquitoes. Medical staff in the city of Camagüey said the vocational school […]
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Experts from Hospital Clínic of Barcelona today launched a warning to travelers going to Cuba to take precautionary measures, such as bottled water, to prevent the spread of cholera, which has entered the Caribbean island decades after the last outbreak. Available vaccines against cholera have limited effectiveness, and usually not recommended, highlights the coordinator of […]
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The Cuban authorities asked their citizens on Friday to support a campaign against the mosquito that transmits dengue and warned that a low perception of risk among the population despite the danger of contracting the disease. Local media these days multiplied short educational and offered expert commentary repeatedly urging people to step up the cleaning […]
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Havana, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) More than 5,000 patients have undergone kidney transplants in Cuba, since the beginning of this kind of surgery in the country in the 70s, an official from the Public Health Ministry said. Read Article
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The state-owned Cubapetroleo, reported the failure to explore for oil companies in Malaysia and Russia, said “On July 31 completed the drilling of offshore exploration Catoche 1x, run by oil companies GULF PC and Gazpromneft, the final depth of 4,666 meters in a water depth of 2,258 meters” He also reported the location of active […]
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A New York man agreed Tuesday to pay a $6,500 fine to settle a long-running dispute with the U.S. Treasury Department over a trip he made to Cuba as an unauthorized tourist 14 years ago. Read Article
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The International Press Center (ICC) today confirmed the death in a traffic accident Oswaldo Paya of the opposition in eastern Cuba. “In the afternoon the day died of a traffic accident Oswaldo Paya,” the source said Sunday, under the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Paya, 60, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), was author […]
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Marco Tulio Alvarado Jimenez (63), Ricardo Luis Ascencio Miguel (34), and Héctor Trujillo Paredes were arrested after police caught them travelling with cocaine hydrochloride by the Cancas toll. The suspects were travelling in two vehicles: a Toyota van and a Toyota station wagon, Diario Correo reports. Alvarado Jimenez had been driving the van, in which […]
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With a delay of a half, finally the National Bureau of Statistics and Information (Onei), through its Center for Population Studies and Development (CEPD) presented a paper Title Studies and Cuban Population Data. Cuba and its Territories 2011. In this study the official projection is provided on the number of Cubans at the end of […]
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The first cargo shipping from Miami to Cuba in more than 50 years sailed on Wednesday from a Miami River terminal, according to a report published by El Nuevo Herald. Port International Corp., an operator of the Miami River terminal will transport humanitarian goods to Cuba once a week. Such items are allowable under exceptions […]
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Cuba has seized 1.44 tons of drugs during the first months of 2012, primarily along its coasts, El Nuevo Herald reports. Most of the drugs are marijuana packets that enter along coastal points, where Caribbean traffickers can easily avoid controls and checkpoints. Between January and May 2012, officials were able to intercept 24 drug operations, […]
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Police injured three suspected members of the drug trafficking organization Los Zetas who were found during an operation that occurred in Constanza, La Vega, the Dominican Republic. The injured suspects were identified as Kelvin Lebrón Furcal (22); Ronny Suero (23); and Ezequiel Tejeda Rosado (24). Various weapons, including a knife, were found on the suspects. […]
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Over 8,000 Cubans have been evacuated from the central province of Sancti Spírtus. While the country has been hit hard by rains, the central provinces have been impacted the hardest. Heavy rains, floods, landslides, and lack of communications are severe. Read Article
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The U.S. government announced today that it has granted visas to Cubans 60 and rejected 11 applications for travel to a conference in San Francisco (California), to be attended by Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro. The State Department spokesman, Victoria Nuland, said the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) invited for XXX Congress […]
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The group of 37 Haitians was sighted on Monday and yesterday repatriated to Cape Haitien, Haiti. The Coast Guard said the Cubans were intercepted in five separate cases since last Saturday and sent to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, on Thursday. The group of 37 Haitians was sighted on Monday and yesterday repatriated to Cape Haitien, […]
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The Navy found thirteen Cuban illegal immigrants traveling on a boat for the Gulf of Uraba. Foreigners occupied a fishing vessel that was intercepted off the coast of Titumate, in Chocó. Coast Guard Commander of the Navy in the Caribbean, Commander Carlos Alberto Serrano, said in a statement that the Cubans had left Turbo, Uraba, […]
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Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban agents convicted of espionage in the United States, returned Friday to leave U.S. soil after a fortnight to visit the island, Cuban state television said. Gonzalez, who has served 13 years in prison and since late 2011 is on probation but required to remain in the U.S., had […]
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A cruise ship departing from Jamaica has rescued 23 Cuban migrants after someone aboard spotted their small boat. A spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. says officials on the Oasis of the Seas brought the Cubans aboard and provided them with food, water and medical treatment after alerting the U.S. Coast Guard. Read Article
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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, will not attend the Sixth Summit of the Americas, to be held in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias from 14 to 15 April next, due to the absence of Cuba, announced today. Read Article
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Last year, 2,193 Cubans were registered on a national scale (1 450 have non-immigrant visas and immigrant visas 743 have). Of the 2 193, 46% are in temporary visits Ecuador for sport, health or science (studies). 26%, however, it is for people who are married to Ecuadorian or have a family member. 8% are professionals […]
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Amnesty International said today Cuban authorities escalated their harassment of human rights activists during Pope Benedict’s visit, increasing arrests, disconnecting activists’ phones and surrounding activists’ houses to prevent them from speaking out about human rights abuses during the Papal tour. Amnesty International urged the Pope to condemn the crackdown and lack of freedom in Cuba. […]
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Authorities in Costa Rica in a week arrested about 160 illegal Cuban migrants who traveled from Ecuador to the United States who sought refuge, said Thursday the Director General of Immigration, Kathya Rodriguez. The Cubans, who entered into several groups, were arrested mostly in areas near the southern border of Costa Rica and Panama, said […]
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“On April 9, will travel to Havana to sign that treaty,” said Foreign Minister referring to the agreement to delimit the maritime borders of the countries in the Caribbean. The negotiations to delimit the maritime boundary are several decades and had announced the signing during the administration of President Manuel Zelaya, deposed in a coup […]
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Cuba police arrested Sunday at fifty activists of the opposition group Ladies in White, in two separate operations, eight days before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to the island, while dissent is increasing its protests. Twenty Ladies in White were arrested as they marched after noon after attending Mass in the parish of Santa […]
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President Hugo Chavez said today that within 6 days of being undergone surgery for removal of an injury, is “open, sustained, progressive, fast” recovery. “There have been met at this time the 6 full days and we are here in a broad recovery so I say: ‘Thank God, thank you to everyone,’” said the president […]
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The hospital Cimeq of Havana, where he will undergo surgery on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is the jewel of Cuba’s health system and has had among his patients leader Fidel Castro, but also to other Cubans who have complex diseases. CIMEQ or Medical Surgical Research Center, is located in western Havana and he was hospitalized […]
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A total of 76 000 327 Mexican tourists visited Cuba in 2011, 14.5 percent from a year earlier, the director of the tourist office on the island here, Alicia Perez. The official, in an interview with Prensa Latina, adding that most of these travelers, many of them family came from Mexico City, Veracruz and Nuevo […]
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A Spanish citizen is in serious condition. The Italian tourist died in Holguin Robert Avelli following an accidental fall vacuum, the newspaper reported Tuesday Corriere della Sera.The young man, a carpenter by trade and natural Mozzanica (Bergamo), had traveled to the island with friends. The Italian newspaper quotes independent journalist Caridad Caballero Batista. Read Article
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A rebate of rates for cell phones in Cuba, including the modality of “calling party pays” and 46% reduction in the charge for text messages, enter into force on February 1, said Sunday the state monopoly Etecsa. The information in the state telecommunications company reaches customers through text messages received on their mobile phones. Read […]
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Cuban President Raul Castro, launched about a year ago and half a profound process of reforms to save the economic model imposed on the island for more than half a century. To that end, has implemented more than 200 reforms to “refresh the exhausted economic model,” explained the president. Read Article
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Cuban Vice President of the Council of Ministries, Ricardo Cabrisas, met with the Chinese Head of Commerce, Chen Deming, to sign 16 agreements for economic cooperation from 2012-2016. According to prensa-latina.cu, these agreements cover cooperation in the areas such as agriculture, health, and biotechnology. Cabrisas sees China as a source of stability in a time […]
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The Center for Promotion of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment in Cuba (CEPEC) encourages foreign investment in tourism and other sectors as part of a process of change in the country. The areas open to foreign capital under Cuban law regulations are tourism, oil, mining and energy. According to the weekly options, citing the aforementioned […]
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According to Cuban state television, the wreck occurred on the east coast. They managed to rescue 87 people. According to a note released by the National Headquarters of Civil Defense of Cuba, border guards on the island found the wreckage on Saturday about 100 meters east of Punta Maisi, at the end of the eastern […]
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Venezuela with the help of medicines manufactured Portugal, Colombia and Cuba. It is expected that between July and August 2012 to start out the first batches of antibiotics. In addition to antibiotics, manufactured generic drugs to treat heart disease, anemia, psoriasis and HIV as well as vaccines to immunize against several diseases. The Minister of […]
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Cuban health authorities in Peru have registered a vaccine for lung cancer that has been tested with positive results in approximately 2,000 patients on the island, as reported by the press in the Caribbean country. CimaVax-EGF vaccine offers the possibility of converting the advanced cancer into a chronic controllable and began marketing in Cuba earlier […]
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The police authorities have alerted the Food and commercial workers on the circulation of counterfeit banknotes from 20.00 cuc.According to the workers themselves counterfeit notes seem real. The only difference detected regardless of the paper is the water seal at its center-left. Read Article
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The young swimmer Rafael Castillo, a member of the Cuban delegation that participated in the IV Parapan Games Guadalajara, Mexico, on Monday sought political asylum in the United States authorities. The Cuban swimmer Rafael Castillo disabled. Castillo, 25 years and amputee arm and left leg, he fled more than a week of the Pan American […]
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The government of Raul Castro accused the United States to collaborate with the expansion in Cuba for crimes related to illegal connections to the Internet and satellite television, supplying equipment and telecommunications equipment that allow secret on the island. In April this year were held in Havana, an unspecified number of people engaged in installing […]
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As announced by Island Travel & Tours company, flights from the international airport Thurgood Marshall Baltimore-Washington DC (BWI) will begin on Wednesday, March 21 weekly, in partnership with the airline Sky King. Read Article
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He hopes to open a new link tourism to the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, opens on Monday when an airline KLM direct from Amsterdam Havana, said Wednesday the Ministry of Tourism of Cuba. “These flights will help to increase visitor arrivals from Scandinavia, Russia, other Eastern European countries, Germany, UK and Holland,” said […]
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Cuba’s President Raul Castro and Vice President of the Central Military Commission of China, Col. Gen. Guo Boxiong, emphasized the excellent state of the relationship between the two nations, state television reported today. Castro received Thursday at the Palace of the Revolution Guo Boxiong, who was accompanied by Ambassador of China in Cuba, Liu yugin […]
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Russian oil exploration drilling will begin next April in Cuba Gazprom Neft oil project involved in Cuba’s economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico Gazpromneft work in offshore Equatorial Guinea and Cuba. The Russian company Gazprom Neft begin exploratory drilling oil field in Cuba next April, said the director of geology and development of the […]
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Bolivian President Evo Morales, said today the unconditional solidarity of Cuba, despite being the country suffering a criminal U.S. blockade for more than five decades. In an act of recognition to the work of the island’s ambassador in La Paz, Rafael Dausa, who concludes his mission here, the officer acknowledged that with the support of […]
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U.S. airlines increase the number of charter flights to Cuba, a country which has diplomatic relations with the United States for 50 years, U.S. media reported Wednesday. According to the source, American Airlines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines Continental and Delta, four of the largest U.S. airlines will provide aircraft charter flights to 25 U.S. companies […]
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The vice president of China’s Central Military Commission, Guo Boxiong, today began a tour that will travel in Cuba, Colombia and Peru, in response to the official visit made to their Latin American counterparts Asian country , the official Xinhua news agency reported. Guo, invited by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba and the Ministries […]
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Like a dream can now see the young Emily Brown, Mercedes Charles, Jack and Ihsan N. Lubke Muhammad received the ability as doctors in Cuba to serve their home communities in the United States. The four freshman in the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) and confessed to Prensa Latina that felt no fear before coming […]
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Cuba has authorised auto sales among individuals easing a 50-year-old ban that has helped make the island a living museum of vintage cars.Until now, Cubans have only been permitted to sell each other vehicles built before the country’s 1959 revolution, which has given long life to the U.S chrome and fin-tail antiques that swarmed pre-revolutionary […]
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A surprise visit by Bill Richardson, New Mexico’s former governor, has revived hope that Cuba may soon free a US government subcontractor whose imprisonment has snarled efforts to improve relations between the two countries, with a senior Cuban official praising the American politician yesterday and describing the jailed Alan Gross as a victim. Read Article
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Epidemiological surveillance in Cuba is on “high alert” in August after an increase in the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue, on Thursday told the local press a Public Health Officer. Although recent figures are not known infestation of dengue, doctors and nurses walk neighborhoods every day, thermometer in hand, to identify residents with possible […]
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A group of 60 Colombians were trapped for 30 hours in Havana because of failure to schedule a Cubana Airlines flight that should come out this Saturday at 5 am from the Jose Marti Airport in Havana. One of the passengers is Juan Pablo Calvo, news director of Radio Nacional de Colombia, who also was […]
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•According to a study by UNESCO, half of the students in Colombia suffer from violence in school, and that it affects more students with poorer performance in reading and mathematics. •The RCN La Radio article states that the violence and abuse is divided into different areas: theft with 39.4% of the violence, verbal abuse with […]
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•Cuban President Raúl Castro announced that the country is to update its migratory policy today during the legislation of the National Assembly of the Popular Power. •The editions to the policy will have to do with Cuban emigrants, and Castro states that they will deal with outdated policies according to prensa-latina.cu. •Castro also addressed Cuban […]
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Somehow I’ve ended up helping to cater a party in Havana, and a burly, jovial architect called Rafael is asking me whether I’ve heard of Radio Bemba. Basically it’s the Cuban grapevine: “Bemba” is a slang word for big lips, and the expression has its origins in the way Fidel Castro communicated with his men […]
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El Salvador-based Taca Airlines will start thrice-weekly flights from San Salvador to Havana, and Taca’s Peruvian subsidiary will increase flights from its hub in Lima to Havana from three to five per week. Read Article
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has delegated some of his duties to his vice president and his planning minister as he prepares to return to Cuba for cancer treatment. Read Article .
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Cuban Fiestas – Recorded interview with author Dr. Roberto González Echevarría. (Recording Time – 01:29.52) Recorded July 14, 2011. PURCHASE BOOK:Cuban Fiestas (See all Cultural Anthropology Books) In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González Echevarría peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta […]
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President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez’s struggle with cancer has severely shaken Cuban society, according to terra.com. A long-lasting friendship between Chavez and Fidel Castro, now carried on with Raul Castro, has been the glue to a strong economic relationship between the 2 nations that has greatly boosted the economy and overall standard of living in […]
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On the other hand, the intelligence sources who have been following closely the situation in Caracas confirmed that Chavez’s daughter, Rosina, together with his mother, Marisabel Rodriguez, Venezuela mysteriously left for Cuba on a plane the Air Force . “A Marisabel and her daughter removed from the urgency,” said another of the sources. “That was […]
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In the midst of a wave of rumors about the health of the Venezuelan president who is undergoing medical treatment in Cuba and was emergency surgery for a pelvic abscess, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro noted that Hugo Chavez is “in charge” of his government, but also conceded that he is giving “a battle for their […]
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•According to El Mercurio, 13 illegal immigrants from Cuba and Africa departed from the Turbo Port and were attempting to travel towards Central America by sea after entering Colombia through Ecuador, and were caught by the authorities. •The two Colombians that aided these immigrants were arrested and charged with the illegal trafficking of migrants. Read […]
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he has his “full faculties” after an operation in Cuba and is managing government affairs, despite being ordered to rest for several days more. Read Article
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Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday from Havana, Cuba, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, had surgery this morning from a pelvic abscess that required emergency surgery. Read Article
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Attracted by the fame of the Habanos cigars, hundreds of tourists tour tobacco plantations and cigar factories in this Cuban province, the birthplace of the best tobacco in the world. While some prefer to visit the fields where the aromatic plant grows – under the sun or soft covers – others admire the dexterity of […]
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Tuesday opened in Santa Cruz de Bolivia, Defense College of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), which will strengthen the bloc’s integration and design strategies to respond to the threats of foreign intervention in the continent. Read Article
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The organization of a right-wing extremist summit on Capitol Hill in Washington to attacking Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba and Nicaragua was denounced on Wednesday. The chair of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, is behind the maneuvers against the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). Read Article
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Cuba has given all small businesses the authority to hire (and fire) labour and will loosen other regulations governing private enterprise as part of the broader measures to reform the island’s economy and boost production, the government said in a statement. Read Article
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Religious liberty is growing in Cuba after a half-century of repression, and the Roman Catholic Church is more able to pursue a humanitarian, public mission than it has been for many years, the archbishop of Havana said Thursday in Omaha. Read Article
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Representatives of Cuba and Iran stressed the interest of both countries to integrate media in international relations between the two countries, according to Iranian PressTV chain. The president of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), Danilo López Sirius, and the speaker of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast held a meeting in Havana […]
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The coffee and cocoa, two lines traditionally props mountain economy in Cuba, have an eye in 2015, the year he expected to recover historical productions. Strategic programs approved by the government and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG) since 2006, received particular impetus from 2010 and aim to achieve in four years the rescue, […]
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The scientific community recognized the medicine again Heberprot Cuban-P, formulated for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. The innovation earned the award for Best Young Inventor at the recent thirty-ninth edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland. Read Articlee
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A Cuban court has sentenced a Chilean businessman who was once a close friend of Fidel Castro to 20 years in prison, state media said Thursday. Max Marambio, whose Rio Zaza company made juices and long-life milk sold across the island, was convicted in absentia of bribery and fraud. Cuba has asked for the extradition […]
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Centralization” has become a bad word in the Cuban lexicon lately, blamed by President Raul Castro as the source of the island’s enervating bureaucracy and economic stagnation. Read Article
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Cuba has become the third largest tourist destination in the Caribbean, Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero said here Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the International Tourism Fair (FIT) Cuba 2011.The minister said the island nation received about 30 million overseas visitors in the last decade. Read Article
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Two obscure Cuban dissidents who sewed their mouths partially shut and launched a hunger strike a month ago said they were prepared to die for their demands, which include freedom for jailed US contractor Alan Gross and improved human rights. Read Article
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Right after Fidel Castro’s first year in power in Cuba, U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower took his first and only trip to Latin America on Feb. 20, 1960. He visited Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. He suffered a surprisingly bitter experience in each of those capitals. He saw threatening crowds waving banners with the images of […]
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Luis Posada Carriles told CNN recently he would “be gentle” with a newspaper reporter who accused him of masterminding decades of violent terrorist attacks in Central America, several to overthrow Fidel Castro. Read Article
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Cuba says it will allow people to buy and sell their homes for the first time since the communist revolution in 1959. For the past 50 years, Cubans have only been allowed to pass on their homes to their children, or to swap them through a complicated and often corrupt system. Read Article
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Mariana García is a child of the 1990s, when Cuba was in the grip of the severe crisis that hit the island after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist bloc. She grew up bombarded by the first video games and surrounded by people who talked more about how to get […]
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In the throes of Cuba’s economic “reorganisation,” young people are walking a tightrope towards an uncertain employment future. They are finding it increasingly difficult to find jobs that meet both their professional aspirations and their salary expectations. Read Article
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The government on Monday accused a reporter for Reuters news agency to establish a meeting between an informant of State Security infiltrated the dissident and an American diplomat to the island’s official television described as a CIA official, reported The Associated Press. Read Article
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Two headless bodies are dumped on a street in suburban Mexico City along with a message sent by a mysterious group called “The Hand with Eyes.” Days later, a severed head shows up in a car abandoned outside an elementary school in the same suburb. Read Article
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The guardians of Cuba’s struggling socialist system seem to have decided that their revolution now needs a dose of evolution. As the island prepares for its first Communist Party Congress for 14 years, to be held in April, changes to the centrally planned, state-run economy are beginning to take effect. Read Article
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Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin a three-day visit to Cuba on Monday for what is described as a “private, non-governmental mission” where the main topic may be the fate of a US aid contractor jailed for setting up illegal Internet service. The timing, coming shortly after contractor Alan Gross was sentenced to 15 […]
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Cuba has an incidence rate of seven tuberculosis (TB) cases per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world, according to figures released by the Public Health Ministry on Thursday, the World Tuberculosis Day. “This achievement is the result of the systematic monitoring and treatment programs developed by the health authorities after the triumph […]
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Port of Tampa says “Si” to Cuba.By: Brendan McLaughlin. TAMPA – The Port of Tampa is saying “si” to the idea of a ferry service from Tampa to Havana. At least two shipping companies are preparing bids to take passengers and their cars on an overnight cruise to Cuba. And though this would revive a […]
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The government of the United States has cleared the airport of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood to make trips to Cuba, which becomes the third terminal of Florida who may make such trips. The authorization was granted by the Customs and Border Protection, which granted it a week early to leave Tampa International Airport. Read Article
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A statement by the Cuban government Saturday night said that during the trial Gross accepted some responsibility but added that he had been “used” and blamed the company that sent him to the island. The fate of Alan Gross, a 61-year-old Maryland native detained for more than a year since being caught bringing communications equipment […]
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More than 50 years of conflict between Cuba and the United States, and in particular Washington’s consistent support for dissidents in this Caribbean island nation, will leave their mark on the trial of U.S. citizen Alan Gross that began this Friday. Gross was arrested Dec. 3, 2009 when he was attempting to return to the […]
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Cuba and Nicaragua have sprung to the defense of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, with Fidel Castro claiming Tuesday that Washington plans to order a NATO invasion of Libya to seize oil interests. Read Article
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Iván Hernández Carrillo, a correspondent for the small independent news agency Pátria, returned to his family home in Matanzas province on 19 February after eight years in jail. Sentenced to 25 years in prison during the March 2003 “Black Spring” crackdown on dissidents, he is the second of the “Black Spring” journalists to be allowed […]
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Two political prisoners who had refused to leave prison were freed against their wishes on Saturday as Cuba released more jailed government opponents. Hector Maseda and Angel Moya were among the last of 52 prisoners President Raul Castro agreed to release in a deal brokered in July by the Roman Catholic Church. Read Article
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Tougher entrance exams for higher education, to be applied in the next academic year in Cuba, are worrying families who see getting into university as a major achievement for their children. “These young people have been raised with the idea that it is important to go to university,” Sandra Álvarez, the mother of 18-year-old Lisandra […]
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The Blue Eye platform, designed by the Cuban software company Desoft S.A. to provide cell phone services, has saved the national economy one million dollars. René Cruz Guerrero, general manager of Procyon Soluciones, Desoft’s telecommunications division, said that amount accounts for the cost of acquiring the program abroad. Read Article
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As an economic crisis began gripping Cuba in early 2009, U.S. diplomats in Havana reported the island was better equipped to withstand the blow than when its Soviet subsidies collapsed in 1989. Read Article
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L to known Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez described on Wednesday as to “ the long night of censorship”that the government suddenly unblocked access to its Web site and 40 other opponents. Read Article
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Venezuela’s Minister of Defense Carlos Mata Figueroa replied to criticisms made by opposition lawmaker William Ojeda concerning the presence of Cuban military in Venezuela by stating that international advisers have always been present in the Armed Forces. Read Article
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A massive submarine fiber optic cable rolled ashore Cuba on Tuesday from Venezuela to bring better Internet connections, though most Cubans will still have only limited access to the Web.The French ship “Ile de Batz” arrived at Siboney beach, Santiago de Cuba province, 870 km (540 miles) southeast of Havana, Deputy Minister of Information and […]
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