- Ana Betancourt de Mora: An Example of Patriotism
- Miles de funcionarios españoles se manifiestan contra los nuevos recortes
- La complicada situación que vive Obama por la crisis de Oriente Medio
- Syrian President Receives Russian Foreign Minister
- Holguin drops three-run lead and loses
- The Signing of 64 Letters of Intent Wraps Up Expo Camagüey 2012
- Holguin Water Reservoirs Diminish
- Cuba Ready to Join Latin American Network of Hospital Pedagogy
- Struggle for the Release of the Cuban Five Reaches the Antarctic
- Top Cuban Boxers to Hungarian Tournament
- Pinar del Rio Shows Good Results in Blood Donations Plan
- Tobacco Experiment Station Keeps Steady Pace after 75 Years
- Land Molluscs, Small Inhabitants of Viñales
- Poems by Prize-Winning Cuban Writer Nersys Felipe in Literary Fair
- Charles Dickens a los 200
- Camagüey busca elevar la producción de biogás
- Premios y destinos del XXII Salón de la Ciudad
- Convocados CDR de Villa Clara a fortalecer el trabajo político-ideológico
- Estados Unidos se quita la careta: «nuestra política hacia Cuba sigue igual» (+ Video)
- Premios Fernandina de Jagua en Feria del Libro Cuba 2012
- Estados Unidos recrudece sanciones contra Irán
- En Cuba delegación sindical noruega de alto nivel
- Tai Chi: salud y vida
- Entre dos siglos, la cerámica de Martha
- Conserveros camagüeyanos alistan nueva campaña
- Eligen a cubano La Cruz mejor púgil de América en 2011
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- Lleva tu móvil al Concierto por el Amor en el Pabellón Cuba, este viernes
- Abril por la ventana de la Feria del Libro
- Invierno atípico
Antonio Jorge, a respected and prolific Cuban economist who also served in several top administrative posts at Florida International University and St. Thomas University, died Monday at the age of 80.
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Continuing the foray of Cuban state companies abroad, a Venezuelan joint venture of Havana-based Quality Couriers International S.E.A. agreed to build a resort in coastal Venezuela.
Socivireca C.A. signed a $5.3 million agreement with Venezuelan state company Venetur to build the Venetur Gran Caribe resort in 18 months, Venezuelan government news agency AVN reported.
The unusual project, [...] Continue reading
Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Tuesday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center at the... Continue reading
I’ve discovered something important in other to keep writing in my blog. I am not political. I am simply a deeply religious woman. It’s not the gang of mobsters who work for State Security who would say that. No, it’s a warning for me alone. Because I am counting on, one day, the prayer to [...] Continue reading
The US trade embargo with Cuba is 50 years old and Washington shows no sign of ending it. In Havana, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford asks how Cubans… Continue reading
The mother waits in the hospital lobby. Outside, it is very cold- very unusual considering the accustomed high temperatures which whip through the Cuban East. The young man is barely 22 years old, he jumped in to separate two of his friends in a street brawl, and when the police arrived they began to hit [...] Continue reading
South Africa: Cuban Bailout - Minister Davies Must Account to Parliament6 February 2012press releaseThe South African government has wasted R600 million on sustaining the failed Cuban state, including what government has called a "solidarity grant... Continue reading
It weighs more than a “bad marriage,” my grandmother used to say about that enormous black telephone in the neighbor’s house. It had a very short cord and after making a call my index finger was covered with the dust from under the dial. Still, I waited anxiously for the shout that announced my mother [...] Continue reading
The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The U.S. economic embargo on communist-run Cuba, a near-total trade ban that turned 50 on ... Continue reading
Geneva, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Cuba ratified on Tuesday the importance of nuclear disarmament to the international community. Speaking at the Conference on Disarmament, the Cuban delegate Yusnier ... Continue reading
Havana, Feb 7 (PL) The economic, commercial and financial U.S. blockade against Cuba has now been in force for 50 years, and its harrasment and siege mechanisms are being strengthened, the cuban ... Continue reading
Washington's 50-year-old economic embargo of Cuba, which the island's leaders refer to as a "blockade," has its supporters and detractors. Here's what some people have said about it:
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When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents.
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Cuba Elementary will hold Family Literacy Night from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13. The theme for the event is "For the Love of Reading." There will be treats, games, prizes, and other fun ... Continue reading
Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes has been granted a visitor's visa to travel from the Dominican Republic to the United States and is likely to meet with ... Continue reading
Six Cuban nationals have been rescued from a raft found floating off the coast of Mexico. They were found near the island of Isla de Mujeres according to authorities. The men said that they were ... Continue reading
A conflict brewing over the exclusion of Cuba has thrown a wrench into the preparations for the 6th Summit of the Americas, to be held April 9-15 in Cartagena, Colombia.
In an initiative coming from an unexpected actor, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa proposed at a summit of the 11-member ALBA bloc in Caracas last weekend to [...] Continue reading
A European friend who recently visited Havana asked me what my greatest wish for this year 2012 was. Of course, she expected me to express to her the same old litany: the end of the dictatorship, democracy, peace, freedom, etc. The wishes that tens of thousands of Cubans have made each New Year’s and that, [...] Continue reading
As would-be golf resort developers in Cuba are entering the third year in a waiting loop, one of them, Britain-based Esencia Group, announced its fourth annual golf tournament in Varadero.
The Montecristo Cup & Esencia Cup Golf Tournaments 2012 will be held April 19-21 at the Varadero Golf Club.
Plans for four golf resorts collectively worth more than $1 [...] Continue reading
The former Cuban leader has painted a bleak picture of the world in a two-hour broadcast during which he ranted about Britain's claim to the Falklands, the security situation in Syria, ... Continue reading
Havana, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Six works by the renowned Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera (1912-1979) will be released during the International Book Fair 2012, which will be held here from 9 ... Continue reading
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MEXICO (AP) — Q.E.P.D. la Serie del Caribe.
Quizás todavía no hay que ser tan lapidario, pero la 54ta edición de la Serie que concluye el martes en Santo Domingo dejó en evidencia las reformas urgentes que necesita el t... Continue reading
The Cuban government must reform an arbitrary exit permit scheme that affects all Cubans and is used to punish , Amnesty International said yesterday (6 February) after a prominent blogger was again blocked Continue reading
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 - 1963) Speed-read of Mimi Alford's revealing, intimate memoir of her year-and-a-half-long affair with President John F. Kennedy, begun when she was a 19-year-old intern Continue reading
Vietnamese stand in Sri Lanka attracts a large number of visitors The Vietnamese Embassy joins other countries and international organizations from India, Russia, the US, Japan, Malaysia and the UN in Continue reading
El respetado economista cubano Antonio Jorge falleció este lunes en Miami a los 80 años.
Jorge se desempeñó en varios altos puestos administrativos de la Universidad Internacional de la Florida (FIU) y de la Universidad St. Thomas, fue autor o edi... Continue reading
El respetado economista cubano Antonio Jorge falleció este lunes en Miami a los 80 años.
Jorge se desempeñó en varios altos puestos administrativos de la Universidad Internacional de la Florida (FIU) y de la Universidad St. Thomas, fue autor o edi... Continue reading
Fifty top ballet dancers from around the world and SA will compete in the 3rd Cape Town International Ballet Competition at Artscape later this month. Dirk Badenhorst, the CEO of the Cape Town International Continue reading
is inviting people to enjoy on 8th, 10th and 11th Feb. The restaurant will invite two beautiful Russian chefs to cook for you and offer free flow of Vodka to warm you up. All you can eat and drink for Continue reading
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