The U.S. government will not take any actions that will undermine the chances for the release of Alan Gross, the U.S. contractor sentenced on March 13 to 15 years in prison in Cuba for Acts against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton affirmed in statements to the Telemundo television network. Clinton said that Gross should be released at the very least on humanitarian terms.
Read MoreThe growing demand for bread in Cuba because of the creation of new private food outlets has led to a an increase in production of 58,000 to 89,000 tons a year, for which the island’s authorities will make investments in that sector, said sources from the food industry.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities granted 171,000 new licenses to persons interested in private work on the island, in some of the 178 activities approved since October 2010, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security reported. That figure represents more than double the independent labor force that existed prior to the labor reform.
Read MoreThe regular 90-game Cuban baseball season comes to an end this week and the eight teams to compete in the quarterfinal playoffs are already determined. Industriales, last year’s league champions were eliminated as well as their perennial rival Santiago de Cuba.
Read MoreCrowds have set fire to the courthouse and other buildings on a third straight day of demonstrations in the southern Syrian city of Daraa.
Read MoreThere’s no doubt that Peteco was one of the most colorful characters in Havana’s intellectual life of the 1980s and ‘90s.
Read MoreLittle Susan doesn’t know who Terry Fox was, but ever since she was born she’s watched her family train hard and run in the marathon that carries the Canadian’s name. (42 photos)
Read MoreCuba’s Odlanier Solis took a couple Round One shots from WBC boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, on Saturday night, dropped to the floor, and said no more before a booing crowd of 19,000 in Cologne, Germany.
Read MoreFormer Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide thanked Cuba for its medical aid to his country, which has saved more than 70,000 persons since the start of the cholera epidemic last October. Aristide returned to Port-au-Prince on Friday after seven years in exile in South Africa.
Read MoreThe prosecutor’s office presented a fax allegedly signed by Luis Posada Carriles that relates him to the terrorist attacks on Cuban tourist installations in 1997. The document had been objected to by the defense, but Judge Kathleen Cardone finally accepted its presentation. Posada is accused of lying to the U.S. immigration authorities after he illegally entered the US in 2005. His trial is taking place in El Paso, Texas.
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