When Gross was arrested in Cuba in Dec. 2009, he was working for a Maryland firm, Development Alternatives, as a subcontractor on a US Agency for International Development (USAID) program to “promote democracy” in Cuba.
Read MoreAnti-nuclear campaigners in India see the earthquake that hit Japan last week, which threatens the meltdown of the Fukushima atomic power facility there, as a wakeup call for this country’s ambitious nuclear power program.
Read MoreThe Travel and Adventure Show has a new participant on its nationwide tour this year: The Cuba/US People-to-People Partnership, whose information booth is supplying eager soon-to-be visitors to the island with the information they need to make their trip fit the new “purposeful travel” opportunities announced by President Obama last month.
Read MoreThe US Dollar buys more as of Monday in Cuba with the 8 percent devaluation of the Cuban hard currency (CUC). The announcement came from the Central Bank of Cuba. See the full HT news article.
Read MoreThe Central Bank of Cuba has devaluated the island’s hard currency, the Cuban Covertible Peso or CUC, by 8 percent as of Monday against all foreign currencies.
Read MoreThe world’s largest person, Sultan Kosen of Turkey is in Havana on a vacation, reported IPS on Monday. Kosen, 28, measures 2.47 meters (8.10 ft.) and also has the largest hands and feet recorded on the planet.
Read MoreA three-day international and interdisciplinary symposium entitled Cuba Futures will begin March 31 at the City University of New York. The event will draw a who’s who from the academic, policymaker, media and business world related to Cuba.
Read MoreUS citizen Alan Gross was just sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison for participating in a US-AID program seeking regime change on the island. Now it’s up to the two countries’ diplomats to come to some sort of mutually beneficial agreement that would allow the 61-year-old Maryland resident to return home.
Read MoreLibyan leader Muammar Gaddafi claims Al-Qaeda and other Muslim extremists are behind the recent rebellion to oust him from power. Salem Geber, the most well-known cleric in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city, says this explanation is not only wrong, but a vintage Gaddafi tactic to inspire fear.
Read MoreThis was the tenth annual “Fiesta of the Drum,” which during each of its years has presented an opportunity to listen to quality live percussionists. (14 photos)
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