Gay rights advocates in Cuba received an unprecedented response from Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, in a meeting held at the ministry itself, after they complained about this country’s support in the United Nations for an amendment seen as a step backwards from the government’s position against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Read MoreAnyone who travels to Cuba first needs a valid passport. In the case of a Cuban-born individual who lives in another country and has another passport, you need a Cuban passport to travel to Cuba as Cuban.
Read MoreSome of the United States’ leading human rights organizations are concerned for the safety of human rights advocates in countries with repressive regimes, where disclosure by Wikileaks could put them in deadly harm.
Read MoreI can’t say that I’ve seen any direct repercussions, but there has indeed been something insinuated: If the decision makers and experts in these areas have opted for this path, we can imagine that our timid hopes for the legal recognition of unions different from heterosexual ones are far from being realized.
Read MoreI owe an excuse to the readers of Havana Times. First for the number of times that I’ve written about the issue of public transportation in Cuba, which I imagine is pretty boring to any outsider. Secondly, because every time I’ve written on the subject up until now, it’s been to complain…the ingrate that I am.
Read MoreCuriously, over the last several months, the positions of the small dissident movement, émigrés and the government concurred in pointing out that no reforms are taking place in the country, only adjustments to the model that has functioned in Cuba for 40 years.
Read MoreAn earthquake of 2.9 degrees on the Richter scale occurred yesterday in Santiago de Cuba, the local press reported today. According to the National Centre of Seismological Research, the quake was felt in that city, the second most important in the country, and in two nearby towns.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and France resumed official cooperation, after more than seven years of rupture because of the imprisonment of dissidents on the island in 2003. Both countries will concentrate their collaboration in areas such as agriculture, health, the environment, scientific research, the teaching of French and culture.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Jewish community in Cuba denied that U.S. agent Alan Gross had collaborated with them before his detention in December 2009, reported IPS on Thursday. The relationship with the Jewish community has been one of the arguments of the defense to justify the presence on the island of Gross, whom the government accuses of distributing illegal electronic devices to dissidents backed by Washington.
Read MoreThe 32nd edition of the New Latin American Film Festival will begin today in the Cuban capital with the projection of the Mexican film Revolución, announced the webpage of the event, in which more than 500 works will be presented.
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