The schedule for Cuba’s baseball semifinal playoff games was announced on Tuesday. The action kicks off on Wednesday when Granma opens its best-of-seven series in Ciego de Avila in the Eastern Division and Pinar del Rio travels to Cienfuegos to light the Western Division fireworks.
Read MoreThe Ecuadorean government declared U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges “persona non grata” and expelled her from the country in response to a cable released by the Wikileaks whistleblower web site.
Read MoreCuba will resume the sending of mail to the United States starting tomorrow in response “to the easing of the safety measures announced by the Transportation Security Administration” of the U.S., according to a note released today by the island’s state-run press. However, the restrictions on postal packages will be maintained, the text specified.
Read MoreCuba expects the arrival this coming summer of an oil platform from China, which will confirm the existence of crude in under the waters of the island’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico, announced Rafael Tenreyro, director of exploration of Cuba Petróleo (CUPET).
Read MoreHere is the cultural calendar for March 2011 put out by the Cuba Absolutely website. It includes happenings in music, dance, and theater and the visual arts, etc. in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreRather belatedly, Latin America is beginning to test products imported from Japan to check that they are not contaminated with radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear power station that was severely damaged by the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Read MoreHT interviewed the visual artist Fabian Fernandez Gonzalez, the creator of an interesting pictorial work that has been exhibited in the circuit of galleries extending across the island, as well as in shows in other countries.
Read MoreThe Cuban capital’s historic center will receive on April 13 dance professionals from 13 countries, who will participate in the 16th International Meeting of Dance in Urban Countries, reported IPS. The event, organized by Cuba’s Retazos Company, the Office of the City Historian and this city’s Theatre Center, will be take place in parks and squares in Old Havana.
Read MoreThe fourth Cuban Convention of Earth Sciences, Geosciences 2011, will start today and will be attended by specialists from a dozen countries to debate issues such as oil prospecting, mining and seismology.
Read MoreThe changes proposed by the Cuban government are “few, limited and belated,” opposition economist Oscar Espinosa Chepe affirmed in a book on the economic situation on the island, published on the Internet. According to Espinosa, the solutions presented by President Raúl Castro “are not integral” and in the majority are left halfway or are blocked by obstacles and all types of prohibitions.
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