Representatives of popular movements from Latin America, Europe and Australia will debate until tomorrow alternatives to give a boost to their demands in the midst of the international economic crisis, as part of the 9th International Workshop on emancipating paradigms being held in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreThe National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) issued a new announcement for university students interested in being trained in the promotion of sex education, according to a communiqué released in this capital. The persons who enroll will receive, starting next February, classes related to gender, sexual diversity, gender identity and sexual rights, among other subjects.
Read MoreThe Alianza Martiana, a group of Cuban émigrés who live in Florida, placed a billboard in a centrally located street in the city of Miami to demand the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States charged with espionage, whom the island considers heroes of the struggle against terrorism.
Read MoreCuban ballerina Loipa Araujo, one of the so-called four jewels of the National Ballet of Cuba, was awarded the Legion of Honor granted by the French Republic, for having given the “best of herself, of her knowledge, of her philosophy of life in favor of the splendor of French ballet, with her experience and vision to the formation of young dancers,” affirmed Jean Mendelson, ambassador of that European nation to the island.
Read MoreBy clamping down on the Facebook.com social networking service, Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party is revealing its discomfort with the rapidly expanding avenue for free expression even as it pushes to transform the once poor agrarian nation into a modern industrial society by 2020.
Read MoreCuban born Guillermo Vidal, 59, was sworn in Tuesday as the new mayor of Denver, Colorado. He came to the US as an eight-year-old along with two brothers, but without their parents, as part of “Operation Peter Pan” that sent children out of Cuba to avoid supposed indoctrination by the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro.
Read MorePeople have been encouraged to speak freely about the economic guidelines of the Sixth Party Congress set for April, so with all due respect I am expressing my point of view.
A real discussion about the meaning of socialism should be at the center of debate in the upcoming party congress. However, the method being used for meetings at workplaces and among party members only call for discussion on specific, limited, prefabricated economic guidelines.
Read MoreThe strongest La Niña weather system in 50 years has brought historic flooding to Australia and drought to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, driving up food prices.
Read MoreSelf-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles considered that his “knowledge about U.S. interventions in Latin America” will protect him from being sentenced in the trial against him begun yesterday in the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. Posada considers that because of this the White House will prevent his being imprisoned for a long period.
Read MorePope Benedict XVI addressed the Cuban government “so that the dialogue that has happily been established with the Church be strengthened and expanded,” in statements to the diplomatic corps accredited in the Holy See. In 2010, thanks to the mediation of the Catholic Church and the Spanish government, 40 of the 52 political prisoners who still remained imprisoned since 2003 were released.
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