Forty per cent of the available land for agricultural purposes in Cuba is still idle, despite the handing over of plots more than two years ago through Decree-Law 259, stated the Ministry of Agriculture’s National Center for Land Control.
Read MoreThe exhibit by Adonis Ferro, which people will be able to enjoy up to February 20, 2011, features medium and over-sized paintings in which the forms trap the viewer. Amorphous creatures peer out from the canvas, they interrogate, provoking the visitor to think. (9 photos)
Read MoreTaking a stroll through Old Havana is always a good way to break the monotony. We never really get to know the place since every day the most commonplace scene can turn into a surprise. (19 photos)
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch has issued its World Report 2011 discussing what its researchers consider the status of human rights in countries around the world. Cuba and the United States, whose governments routinely criticize each other’s human rights record, are two of the countries where the types of violations are detailed.
Read MoreBoth the United Nations and Amnesty International have criticized Sweden for its latest expulsion of Iraqi migrants who fled their home country to seek shelter in the European nation, citing concerns that violence in Iraq continues to threaten the lives of deported migrants.
Read MoreCorruption is generalized in Cuban society and affects the representatives of the State as well as persons who need to bribe or steal to survive, according to several cables from the U.S. Interests Section dated between 2005 and 2009 released by WikiLeaks. These practices have also spread to getting jobs in emerging sectors such as tourism and even in some medical services.
Read MoreA lack of foresight in the purchase of spare parts for harvesters and problems in the contracting of productions affect the recovery of the rice sector in Cuba, Minister of Agriculture Gustavo Rodríguez recognized in a meeting of cooperatives held in the eastern city of Bayamo.
Read MoreThe Cuban Catholic Church will not challenge the island’s government in order to maintain its spaces for cult, be able to renovate its installations and increase the number of nuns and priests, according to the conclusions of Michael Parmly and Jonathan Farrar, the two heads of the U.S. Interests Section in this capital, revealed by WikiLeaks.
Read MoreNegligence and corruption related charges were alleged to be the leading causes in the death last year of 26 patients at the main Havana Psychiatric Hospital revealed the trial that took place between January 17-22, notes the Cuban press on Monday.
Read MoreCuba is now six months away from considerably faster telecommunications and Internet capability as the undersea cable link from Venezuela began to be laid on Saturday. The long awaited project will provide 3,000 times greater capability, says the Cuban government. It is still unclear what the greater capability will mean for ordinary Cubans who would like to have Internet service. That decision and the cost will be determined at a later date by the Cuban government. Presently only a select number of Cubans are able to surf the web.
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