A 3.5 degrees magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale was registered yesterday in the south of the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the Central Station of the National Seismological Service of Cuba reported. The quake was the second this year on the island. Since the earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, the Cuban authorities decided to increase the information coverage and preparation for a possible earthquake.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro questioned the policy of the United States and the European Union toward Libya, after on previous years President Muammar al-Gaddafi accepted disarmament and several European heads of government visited Tripoli. In one of his usual Reflections, Castro reiterated his opposition to a war in the African country and the intervention of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Read MoreCuba should increase the energy saving measures to face the oil price hike, Rafael Tenreiro, assistant director of the state-run Cuba Petróleo (CUPET) oil company, affirmed. “The international situation is of much uncertainty,” and “it is impossible to predict how much more the prices will go up,” the official said. The island produces half of the fuel it needs and the rest is imported from Venezuela at preferential prices.
Read MoreCuban immigration authorities gave exit permits to 13 relatives of Orlando Zapata, the dissident who died in February 2010 after a hunger strike, so they can travel to the United States as political refugees, announced Reina Tamayo, the dissident’s mother.
Read More“In any part of the world, such as in Cuba today and in “Our America,” the struggle against capitalist, bureaucratic and patriarchal domination will only culminate with the expansion of a radically free society under the principles of solidarity, self-management and autonomy.”
Read MoreEarlier, in his second televised speech in as many days, Gaddafi once again alleged involvement of foreigners in the rebellion against his more than 41-year-old rule.
Read MoreThe US government authorized eight airports to offer charter flights to and from Cuba, the US Customs and Border Protection services reported. Before that, only Miami, New York and Los Angeles had air links with the island. Those benefitting by the new exceptions in the travel ban include Cuban Americans in general as well as academics, students, artists and organized groups with educational and religious ends.
Read MoreForty-three per cent of the places set aside by the Ministry of Higher Education for the next school year will be for pedagogy careers, announced René Sánchez, director of the ministry’s enrolment and labor placement. Meanwhile, according to the official, the careers in humanities will decrease due to a lesser demand for labor force in that area.
Read More“I’ve never believed in competitions as definers of talent. In that sense I don’t believe they define anything. In art, the races are about long distance, not speed. No one finishes first or last because the goals are always on the horizon.”
Read MoreMarwa Sharaf el-Din, an Egyptian law PhD candidate at Oxford University, spent part of International Women’s Day in Tahrir Square this afternoon to perform Zajal, a popular traditional form of Arabic poetry.
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