Cuban wrestlers will participate in the Olympic qualifying rounds for the Americas, which will be held from March 23 to 25 in the US city of Orlando, Florida. Fourteen athletes from the island will be competing there.
Read MoreDelays by the Cuban government in assessing international collaboration projects are leaving foreign aid workers in complete limbo, according to a report released this week by Havana correspondents of the IPS news agency.
Read MoreJailed American agent Alan Gross has asked Cuban President Raul Castro for permission to travel to the US for two weeks to visit his mother, 89, who is gravely ill.
Read MoreCuba is promoting itself as a tourist destination in the Caribbean at the World Tourism Exhibition, which is taking place in Paris at the Port de Versailles Exhibition Park.
Read MoreLouis is a man of over 60 who lives on my block. Although he has always looked too sad for words, we got along just fine.
Read MoreCuban police responded to a request from the Catholic Church on Thursday night and dislodged a group of 13 protesters from the Nuestra Señora de la Caridad church in Centro Habana.
Read MoreEcuadorian President Rafael Correa said today that he will be not attend the Americas Summit (April 14-15) in Cartagena, Colombia in protest of the Obama administration’s pressuring to exclude Cuba.
Read MoreCuban baseball player Yoenis Cespedes said recently that he didn’t leave Cuba out of any hatred of Marxism or love for the United States. He said that rather than for political reasons, he left the island due to the malaise that prevails throughout Cuban baseball, the national sport.
Read MoreThree new cave art sites in Cuba were recently discovered at the Imias Nature Reserve in the eastern province of Guantanamo. This set of pictographs created by pre-Columbian groups or populations — most of these painted in red colors — were found during a joint expedition of the “Speleological Society of Cuba” and the “Cuban Cave Art Research Group.”
Read MoreThe musical group “David Calzado y su Charanga Habanera” will mark the 25th year since the band’s formation by beginning a tour of 17 US cities starting on March 23.
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