Cuba and Angola will strengthen their economic ties, affirmed Fernando Da Piedade Dias, vice president of the African country, where the island has a contingent of more than 2,600 specialists in diverse areas, the local press reported. More than 8,000 young Angolans have studied in the Caribbean nation since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1975.
Read MoreThis post is about a walking trip on the outskirts of the city as we took Bruno an old Doberman pinscher to the vet. Read on to see the surprises we found along the way. (18 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuban baseball league continues with a full schedule on Tuesday. Cienfuegos leads in a tough battle with Pinar del Rio and La Habana atop the Western Division, while Ciego de Avila continues on top of the Eastern Division with Granma and Santiago de Cuba on its heels.
Read MoreThe cholera epidemic ravaging Haiti has affected even this small southern border town, which lived primarily from the trade with its neighbor even though it counts for less than five percent of the cross-border market trade.
Read MoreThe Cuban government welcomed the latest U.S. measures to ease restrictions on travel and remittances to this country, but said they had a “limited reach.”
Read More“As a policy, everyone who has a telephone should have the right to a connection” to the Internet in Cuba, First Deputy Minister of Informatics and Communications Ramón Linares affirmed. Nevertheless, the authorities will still have to overcome technical and financial difficulties before providing access to the World Wide Web, Boris Moreno, the sector’s deputy minister, noted. The island will be connected next July to an underwater fiber optic cable that will multiply by 3,000 its capacity for the transference of data, images and voice.
Read MoreThe lifting of restrictions on travel and sending of remittances to Cuba announced by the Barack Obama administration “confirm there is no will to change the policy of blockade and destabilization against Cuba,” affirmed the island’s Foreign Ministry in a statement released in this capital. The Cuban Foreign Ministry insisted on the need to eliminate the embargo as the only way to normalize bilateral relations.
Read MoreThe trial against the persons involved in the death of 26 patients in the Havana Psychiatric Hospital began Monday in this capital, the official Granma daily reported. According to the source, “once the judicial process concludes its results will be made public,” noted IPS. For more on the case read: Cuba Hospital Deaths Remain Mystery
Read MoreCoinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Casa de Africa museum and gallery, this event (see accompanying photos) was held from January 5-9. It had been anxiously awaited not only by its presenters, but also by the whole community in which the facility is located: the historic district of Old Havana. (29 photos)
Read MoreLong lines were everywhere during this past Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema. Though Cuban movies attracted large audiences, Lester Hamlet’s Casa Vieja (Old House) was a magnet that drew the young and not-so-young alike. In fact, more than a month later it is still packing in crowds in Havana’s premiere cinemas. Why is this happening?
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