US visa requirements for Cuban citizens will remain “unchanged,” meaning they will “still need a visa or valid permission to enter this country,” said US State Department spokesman William Ostick.
Read MoreThis year’s coveted National Award for Arts was awarded on Thursday to Havana painter, sculptor and ceramist Ever Fonseca. “Only death will stop me,” said Fonseca, a member of the International Association of Artists.
Read MoreThe Municipal Court in Guantanamo Province sentenced political opposition figure Rafael Matos Montes de Oca to two years and six months in prison on charges of “predisposition for social dangerousness,” according to the independent Hablemos Press agency.
Read MoreCubans go to the polls on Sunday October 21 to elect neighborhood delegates. The Cuban president isn’t elected by the citizens, nor do they elect the vice president, or the presidents of the municipal or provincial assemblies, which would be the counterparts to mayors and governors.
Read MoreComing out of the theater, my friend informed me of his dissatisfaction with the play. He was unable to capture the essence of what was being represented in the hall, blinded by the nasty, sickening, outrageous, disgusting and pornographic episodes that unfolded before the frightened eyes of the spectators.
Read MoreI imagine that some Cubans readers are going to criticize me for trying to dig up flaws in this latest reform, and they might have a point. Despite its limitations, the fact is that never in more than 50 years have the people of the island had greater freedom to travel.
Read MoreThe Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos, funded by the controversial US National Endowment for Democracy and based in Madrid, warned on Wednesday about the “wide margin of discretion” maintained in the hands of Cuban authorities with respect to the new immigration reform on the island.
Read MoreThe British government applauded the reform of Cuban immigration policy announced on Wednesday by the Cuban government, considering it a “positive step” toward “freedom of movement by Cubans.”
Read MoreThe leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on Wednesday sent written congratulations to all graduates of the Victory at Giron Institute of Basic and Pre-Clinical Medical Sciences in Havana.
Read MorePanamanian authorities are investigating the disappearance of a Cuban couple linked to the US Embassy in Panama, as well as their two children, reported a police source on Wednesday in that country.
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