One should always keep it in mind that the shoe repairer is not the criminal but the victim of an economic model that has made the trafficking of influence and stolen goods the main source of income for its own bureaucracy.
Read MoreCuban President Raúl Castro headed Wednesday the start of sessions of the Cuban parliament, which will discuss the economic reforms proposed to be approved at the next congress of the ruling Communist Party.
Read MoreA total of 31 meteorological stations in Cuba registered record minimum temperatures early Wednesday for the month of December, said the Cuban Meteorology Institute. The marked descent is due to a “continental mass of dry and cold Arctic air” that will extend to the entire island.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and Greece decided to renew official cooperation on political and economic issues, according to an agreement signed in this capital by Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis and his Cuban counterpart Dagoberto Rodríguez, the accredited press on the island reported. Greece is the third European Union country, after Spain and France, to resume these links with the Caribbean nation.
Read MoreExtreme weather conditions and the crew’s mistakes in facing those circumstances were the principal causes of the crash of the ATR-72 aircraft of the Cuban Aerocaribbean Airline last November 4, which caused the death of 68 persons, the Cuban Institute of Civil Aeronautics informed Thursday. The report says the aircraft was in good technical condition.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro backed the work of declassification of documents undertaken by Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks, who morally has made the United States “get down on its knees,” in one of his usual “Reflections” published by the island’s state-run press. Castro held the “Swedish right-wing government and the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) warmongering mafia” accountable if in the end “the truth about the cynical policy of the United States and its allies” is not known.
Read MoreAfter exhausting the legal appeals process in the United States, family members and human rights groups in Cuba are calling for a solidarity campaign to convince President Barack Obama to pardon the five Cuban agents who have spent the last 12 years in U.S. prisons.
Read MoreMauricio Ortega, 57, is a native of Guanabacoa, a municipality of the city of Havana. With a ninth grade education, among the jobs he’s held are street sweeper, security guard and ambulance driver. HT interviews Mauricio (not his real name) who is currently working for AGESP,the Security and Protection Agency.
Read MoreI’m travelling soon to Cuba and would like to know the norm for tipping at hotels or restaurants. Is it legal to tip with gifts such as certain hygiene products (toothpaste, shaving product, makeup) or school supplies (pencils, notebooks)? Is this appreciated or insulting? What constitutes an appropriate gift?
Read MoreRubén González, a 51-year-old welder who is the secretary general of the Sintraferrominera ironworkers union, has spent over a year in prison in Venezuela for leading a strike by hundreds of workers outside the San Isidro mine in Ciudad Piar, 550 kilometers southeast of the capital.
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