Cuba will extend in its tobacco plantations a new variety of this plant known as Corojo 2006, more resistant to plagues, created in the Tobacco Experimental Station of the western province of Pinar del Río, reported IPS. That region is known in the world for the quality of its tobacco leafs, used to make the famous Havana cigars.
Read MoreThe prosecutor’s office requested a 20-year prison sentence for Chilean businessman Max Marambio for the crimes of bribery, falsification of banking and commercial documents in the trial against him opened at the Havana Provincial Court, reported IPS. Marambio was tried in absence, since he has refused to appear before the Cuban authorities.
Read MoreIn Cuba, when someone has lost a fight they’ll usually say, “There’s nothing like tomorrow,” The expression is loaded with vengefulness, or perhaps a halo of hope in the face of adversity.
Read MoreWhat is especially needed are changes in the current state relations of wage-labor production and in the bureaucratic regulations that constrain popular creativity and the generation of necessary consumer goods and services.
Read MoreThe landmark golden baseball season has ended in yet another assault on the record books, with both José Dariel Abreu and Yoennis Céspedes achieving a record-busting 33 four baggers and a half dozen other prodigious sluggers (paced by Reutilio Hurtado with 30, Joan Carlos Pedroso with 29, Freddie Cepeda with 28, and Despaigne with 27) trailing close on their heels.
Read MoreLuis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile militant, widely known in Latin America as the leading terrorist in the Americas, has begun his defense in a trial for perjury in El Paso, Texas
Read MoreFresh-faced Salwa El-Hosseiny had joined protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square when a plainclothes officer grabbed her and dragged her to army officers stationed in a nearby museum.
Read MoreWe might think that this is a temporary situation — with political content — directed to complicate the lives of the foreign press corps working in Cuba. However this lack of forewarning occurs much more often than what economists advise.
Read MoreThe moving away of a high pressure system towards the Atlantic will leave an area of weak gradients and pulling in warmer air to give us a week of high temperatures. At the end of the period, rain is expected. Maximum temperatures will fluctuate between 29°C (84°F) and 31°C (87°F), while the minimum temperatures will be around 18°C (64°F).
Read MoreTourist arrivals in Cuba increased by 14.7 per cent in the first two months of 2011 as compared to the previous year, the National Office of Statistics announced. That figure represents a recovery in tourist arrivals, which had decreased a little in January and February 2010.
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