Cuban Economic Reform Czar Visits China
Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo arrived in China on Tuesday, where he was received by Vice Premier Hui Liangyu of that country.
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Cuba Chosen by Chavez for New Surgery
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is set to undergo additional surgery this weekend in Cuba. “Everything is set there, it’s safer, because they’re the same doctors who operated on me before. They’re even familiar with the incision from that operation,” said the president.
Read MoreCuban Badminton Tournament Valid for Olympic Ranking
The National Federation of Badminton is preparing for 13th edition of the Giraldilla International Tournament of that discipline, to be held from March 21 to 25 in Pinar del Rio Province.
Read MoreRocky Road for Cubans in Ecuador
The lack of guarantees for Cubans who came to Ecuador following that country’s elimination of visa requirements for 130 nationalities in 2008 were reported this past weekend by the website Café Fuerte.
Read MoreHow Can I Get on Raul’s Cuba Train?
I cannot offer the Cuban political elite anything of what they seek in “updating” their battered model or helping it to function. To top it all off, though I think they have to be negotiated with, at the same time I think they are a major part of the problem.
Read MoreCivility Threatened in Cuba
I saw a Cuban documentary about elementary school education here. To teach the pronunciation of the letter “f,” the teacher used the word “firearm” – not flower, or fiesta or fun…words that are closer to children. With an emphatic pause, she pronounced: FIRE-ARM, and proceeded to make those innocent students repeat those same syllables.
Read MoreGaza hunger-strikers send Khader Adnan’s victory as a gift to Honduran prisoners
Gaza today celebrated the news that Khader Adnan had ended his hunger strike following an agreement that his administrative detention will not be renewed, and he will be released by Israeli authorities on 17 April.
Read MoreCuba Tests Show Chavez Needs New Surgery
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Tuesday that he would need more surgery in the area where he had a cancerous tumor removed last summer. He was in Havana, Cuba over the weekend for tests that revealed a “small lesion.”
Read MoreCuba Rap Festival Returns to Alamar
Announced on short notice, the Cuban Rap Festival returns to Alamar, a heavily populated city on the eastern outskirts of Havana, this coming weekend February 24-26. The event’s promoter, Rodolfo Rensoli, told HT that on this occasion the program will be including more than 50 groups.
Read MoreCuban Jurists Congress Ends Today
The seventh congress of the Union of Jurists of Cuba, being held since yesterday, concludes today at the Havana Convention Center. The meeting was attended by the heads of the Attorney General’s Office and the Supreme Court.
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