Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centers, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents.
Read MoreCuban jurists stated their support for the promulgation of a gender law, which typifies domestic violence, the director of Training and Development of the People’s Supreme Court, Rufina Hernández Rodríguez, announced. According to Hernández, the persistence of the phenomenon “is partly due to the many roles women still carry out, the double work load: the professional and that of the home.”
Read MoreCardinal Jaime Ortega said a mass for Christmas in Cuba’s principal prison, the Combinado del Este, on the outskirts of the island’s capital, reported IPS. The ceremony was considered a sign of hope by the Ladies in White, who are still waiting for the release of 11 dissidents arrested in 2003.
Read MoreNoah Flug, head of the International Association of Holocaust Survivors, told IPS he was shocked by the content of the rabbis’ letter, saying it recalled the Nazis banning of Jews from living alongside other Germans.
Read MoreThe year 2010 is coming to a close, one more year that slips through our fingers like sand. For believers and non-believers Christmas is apparent in the two currencies, the “dollar” stores with more fancy decorations and the shops that sell in regular pesos with less color and sparkle. Nonetheless, the “kitsch” is apparent everywhere. (20 photos)
Read MoreA very serious issue that should not be ignored because of the negative impact it exerts on thousands of elderly and low income Cuban-Americans, who are denied the opportunity to visit their country, because of the onerous processing fee for their Cuban Passport and Visa and for having to purchase one the most expensive airline tickets in the world.
Read MoreA new group of 60 Cuban doctors and support personnel arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday to reinforce the Cuban medical brigade fighting the cholera epidemic in the neighboring Caribbean nation.
Read MoreTwo different generations of Cubans confront the same social phenomenon though neither have a voice or a vote. The revolution is seen through the lens of those who helped to make it and another of those who were born within it.
Read MorePresident Barack Obama’s hopes of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility appear as far from being realized as ever in the wake of new legislation approved by Congress this week.
Read MoreThe Cuban-Venezuelan Cuvenpetrol joint venture will carry out modernization and expansion works in 2011 on the refinery in Cienfuegos, 250 km east of the Cuban capital, affirmed Ramón Curapiaca, the Venezuelan representative in that industry, which hopes to increase its processing capacity from 65,000 to 150,000 barrels a day of crude. The new works will make it possible to produce diesel with low sulphur content, improving the reliability of the electric power system and advancing in the construction of the liquefied gas factory.
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