Cuba: Regulations on Plan of Subsidies Published by Official Gazette
Cuba’s Official Gazette published on Wednesday the regulations that will soon come into force regarding a plan to subsidize the construction and repair of private homes.
View ArticleCristina Fernandez Undergoes Surgery for Papillary Carcinoma
Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez will be operated on for a papillary carcinoma on the thyroid gland’s right lobe on Wednesday, which was detected on December 22 during a routine medical checkup.
View ArticleNew International Effort for the Release of the Cuban Five
The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five urged activists in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States to send messages or call U.S....
View ArticleVP Esteban Lazo Heads Cuban Delegation to Swearing-In of New Jamaican Prime...
Vice President Esteban Lazo heads the Cuban delegation that traveled to Jamaica to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of Portia Simpson Miller, who on Thursday takes the oath of office as Prime...
View ArticleArgentinean President’s Surgery Successful
The operation carried out on Wednesday on Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez for her thyroid cancer was successful, according to the local Cronica TV television channel.
View ArticleThe March Towards the Abyss
It is not a matter of being optimistic or pessimistic, knowing or not knowing elementary things, of being responsible or not for events. Those who would like to be thought of as politicians should be...
View ArticleOn the 5th for The Five: Italian Association Sends Messages to Obama
The Italy-Cuba National Friendship Association sent on Thursday letters, e-mail messages and a large number of texts by way of social networks to US President Barack Obama, in favor of the five Cuban...
View ArticleCuban Jazz Maestro Chucho Valdes on Tour around the U.S in January
Cuba’s multi-Grammy Award winner Chucho Valdes and his band —the Afro-Cuban Messengers— will begin in January a tour around the United States that includes performances in New York City and Philadelphia.
View ArticleThe Best President for the United States
A well-known European news agency yesterday published from Sydney, Australia that a group of Australian researchers at the University of New South Wales announced the creation of an electrical cable...
View ArticleInt'l Committee Decries WaPo’s Lies on the Cuban Five Case
The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five decried The Washington Post this Monday for publishing an editorial full of lies and inaccuracies regarding the case of the five Cuban...
View ArticleRamiro Valdes Heads Cuban Delegation to Daniel Ortega’s Swearing-In Ceremony...
Commander of the Revolution and vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers Ramiro Valdes Menendez heads the Cuban delegation that traveled to Nicaragua to participate on Tuesday in the...
View ArticleIranian President Begins Official Visit to Cuba
Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday morning in Havana to begin an official visit at the invitation of the Cuban government.
View ArticleChinese Ambassador to Cuba Received Award Granted by University of Havana
The Chinese ambassador to Cuba, Li Yuqin, received on Tuesday the plaque ‘280th Anniversary of the Foundation of the University of Havana’ from the hands of Gustavo Cobreiro, the rector of this higher...
View ArticleThe Seattle Teacher’s Union Sponsors Art Exhibit by Antonio Guerrero
The American Federation of Teachers Local 1789 of Seattle, Washington, is hosting, since January 3, a beautiful exhibition of paintings by Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cubans unfairly incarcerated...
View ArticleMahmoud Ahmadinejad Concluded Official Visit to Cuba
Cuba’s President Raul Castro bid farewell on Thursday morning to his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who concluded a one-day official visit to the Caribbean nation at the invitation of the...
View ArticleSantiago de Cuba Welcomes First Cruise Ship for this Season
The arrival in Santiago de Cuba of the Braemar ship sailing from Jamaica on a Caribbean cruise marked the beginning of the season of this tourism modality in the eastern city of the island this year.
View ArticleJamaican Donation Enriches Cuban Orchid Garden Collection
Orchids coming from Jamaica enrich today the collection of Soroa’s Orchid Garden, the largest of its kind in Cuba, which includes some five hundred native and exotic varieties, confirmed experts.
View ArticleWorld Peace Hanging by a Thread
A Yesterday I had the satisfaction of having a pleasant conversation with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I had not seen him since 2006, more than five years ago, when he visited our country to participate in the...
View ArticleLA PAIX MONDIALE TIENT À UN FIL
J’ai eu le plaisir, hier, de converser calmement avec Mahmoud Ahmadineyad que je n’avais plus vu depuis septembre 2006, voilà plus de cinq ans, quand il était venu à La Havane participer à la...
View ArticleCuba: Eduardo Galeano Inaugurates Casa de las Americas Literary Prize
Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano inaugurated in the Cuban capital on Monday the 53rd Casa de las Americas Literary Prize during a ceremony attended by personalities such as Culture...
View ArticleHavana Ballet Festival 2012 to Be Marked by Both Tradition and Novelties
Being “Tradition and New Paths” the main theme for this year’s International Ballet Festival of Havana, scheduled for October 28 thru November 6, the event is expected to bring a parade of classic and...
View ArticleCuban Delegation Ends Visit to South Africa
The Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC), Gwede Mantashe, bid farewell to a delegation from Cuba that participated in festivities for the South African political party’s centenary.
View ArticlePour le levé de rideau des activités du Prix Casa de las Américas, Galeano...
L’un des auteurs les plus respectés d’Amérique Latine, Eduardo Galeano, a inauguré, le lundi 16 janvier, à La Havane, le début des activités du cinquante-troisième Prix Littéraire Casas de las Américas...
View ArticleBrazilian FM Announces Visit of Dilma Rousseff to Cuba
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil, currently in this capital, announced on Monday that the president of his country, Dilma Rousseff, will soon...
View ArticleCuba to Host Pan American Convention on Engineering
The National Association of Construction Architects and Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC) announced that Havana’s Convention Center will host the 33rd Pan American Convention on Engineering in April 2012.
View ArticleCuba: More than 1,000 Subsidy Requests Taken on First Day
Municipal Housing Administration Offices across Cuba accepted more than 1,300 applications for subsidy, out of nearly 5,000 requests, on the day the measure came into force for people in need of...
View ArticlePresident Abdelaziz Bouteflika Met with Visiting Cuban Health Minister in...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika met on Thursday in Algiers with Cuba’s Public Health Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda, who is visiting that African nation as part of several activities to...
View ArticleOil Drilling Rig in Cuban Territory for Deep-Water Prospecting
A mobile offshore-drilling rig, the Scarabeo 9, arrived in Cuban waters on Thursday with the purpose of resuming deepwater oil prospecting in the coming days some 22 miles off the Cuban coasts, in the...
View ArticleU.S Government Urged to Remove Cuba from State Sponsor of Terrorism List
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg has urged the U.S. Government to remove Cuba from the State Department’s annual State Sponsor of Terrorism List alleging that the Caribbean nation’s inclusion undermines the...
View ArticleUNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education to Visit Cuba in February
Qian Tang, the Assistant Director-General for Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will participate in the International Congress University 2012,...
View ArticleParaguayan President Met with Cuban Ambassador to Asuncion
President Fernando Lugo met on Monday in the seat of the Paraguayan government in Asuncion with the Cuban ambassador to that South American nation, Bernardo Guanche.
View ArticleCuba Denounces Increase of U.S. Radio and Television Aggressions
Cuba denounced on Monday the increase of U.S. radio and television broadcasts against the island at the World Radiocommunications Conference held in Geneva.
View ArticleThe Fruit that Did Not Fall
Cuba found itself forced to fight for its existence against an expansionist power located a few miles off its coast that had declared the annexation of our island and that believed our destiny was to...
View ArticleLargest Cuban Coffee-producing Province Finishes Harvest
Farmers in eastern Santiago de Cuba province harvested 1.6 million 28-pound cans of coffee cherries, thus fulfilling their commitment, though they are still far from its true potential, according to...
View ArticleCuban Academy of Sciences Inducts New Foreign Corresponding Members
A group of foreign personalities were recently inducted as Corresponding Members into the Cuban Academy of Sciences during the latest plenary session of this organization, for their contribution to the...
View ArticleThe Genius of Chavez
Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro Cuba President Chavez presented his annual report on activities carried out in 2011 and his program for 2012 to the Venezuelan Parliament. After thoroughly carrying...
View ArticleNational Conference of the Cuban Communist Party Begins on Saturday
The First National Conference of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) begins on Saturday, January 28, with the purpose of assessing the work of this political organization, as agreed during the Fourth PCC...
View ArticleOldest Piece of Indigenous Christian Art to be Shown in Cuba
Cuba has borrowed from the Vatican’s Missionary Ethnological Museum the oldest piece of indigenous Christian art of the New World to be exhibited for a year at the Museum of the City in Havana.
View ArticleRaul Castro Presides Over National Conference of the Cuban Communist Party
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (CC-PCC), President Raul Castro, presides over the First National Conference of this political organization that began on...
View ArticleALBA Summit Praises Fidel Castro’s Struggle for the Poor
The Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, said on Sunday that the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, “has always fought for poor, for those who do not have a voice.”
View ArticleRaul Castro Arrives in Havana
The Cuban President Raul Castro arrived in Cuba Monday morning, February 6, after attending fruitful working sessions of the 11th ALBA Summit that took place in Caracas, Venzuela.
View ArticleWomen Int’l Federation Asks Obama to Release the Cuban Five
The Women’s International Democratic Federation meeting in Almada (Portugal) asked U.S. President Barack Obama to do justice to the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in his country...
View ArticleFidel Castro Meets with Participants at Book Fair
Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro had a 9-hour long meeting with scholars, writers and intellectuals attending the 21 International Book Fair, underway in Havana.
View ArticleFour Medals for Cuba at World Cups of Judo
The Cuban national judo teams won four medals (one gold, one silver, and two bronze) at the World Cups of the sport held over the weekend in Oberwart, Austria (men’s), and in Budapest, Hungary (women’s).
View ArticleHead of Angolan Parliament Receives Leader of Cuban Workers
The president of the Angolan Parliament, Antonio Paulo Kassoma, met on Sunday in Luanda with Cuban parliamentarian and General Secretary of the Cuban Workers’ Confederation (CTC) Salvador Valdes Mesa,...
View ArticleInternational University Congress Kicks Off in Havana
Education Ministers, heads of multinational organizations and personalities which include a Nobel Peace laureate will participate in the “University 2012” 8th International Congress of Higher Education...
View ArticleRaul Receives Chavez in Havana
After intense days of emotions and visible expressions of support of his people, the Venezuelan head of state, Hugo Chavez, arrived smiling at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport on Friday...
View ArticlePeace Boat to Visit Cuba in March
The Peace Boat cruise ship will arrive in Cuba on March 1st as part of a world tour carrying hundreds of activists against the nuclear threat and for the preservation of the environment.
View ArticlePhotographic Exhibition in Honor of Sandino Inaugurated in Villa Clara
A photographic exhibition to honor Augusto Cesar Sandino on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of his assassination, was inaugurated on Friday at the office of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with...
View ArticleRoberto Gonzalez, one of the Defense Lawyers of The Five, in a Critical...
Roberto Gonzalez, one of the members of the legal team of the five Cubans condemned in the United States, is in a critical condition at a Havana hospital after a hard struggle against cancer, which he...
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