China could extend to other regions of Cuba cooperation in rice cultivation, which has been effective in the eastern province of Ganma, Liu Yuqin, ambassador of the Asian country on the island, affirmed during a tour of the country’s central region. The diplomat also mentioned the possibility of attracting Chinese tourists to the hotels on the keys on the northern coast of Cuba.
Read MoreThe contradiction between abandoning one’s children today so that they might live in a better country tomorrow stirs a host of emotions, and much sadness and regret.
Read MoreAs pro and anti-Wikileaks forces draw their battle lines, and Wikileaks’ impresario Julian Assange marks time in storied, overcrowded and very Victorian Wandsworth Prison in southwest London, a group of his supporters are taking a different tack.
Read MoreAlthough the Brazilian economy is now one of the fastest growing in the world, it cannot claim an entirely clean bill of health. Declining industrial output threatens to put the country’s development into reverse, and no short term remedy is in sight.
Read MoreBack in February or March, Venezuelans still looked to the clouds anxiously hoping to get from them the water they needed so desperately. The lack of this precious resource had led to power outages, forest fires and shortages of water in homes. At that time no one imagined that in less than eight months things would radically change. (26 photos)
Read MoreA rousing battle between former Under-Secretary-General Inga- Britt Ahlenius, who once headed the U.N.’s powerful investigating arm, and her boss Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is threatening to get ugly.
Read MoreCuban actor Jazz Vila’s career has been associated with the group Teatro El Publico. During the recent period he has been developing his professional talent in Spain, however for the moment he is back on the island to act in the first terror movie ever made by Cuban cinema. He was selected to play one of the leading parts in the production “Juan of the Dead.”
Read MoreCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez considered that “the industrialized countries have to assume the obligations that link, quantify and are most ambitious in the reduction of their emissions” of greenhouse gases to face climate change, when speaking at the Conference on this subject being held in Cancun, Mexico.
Read MoreThe U.S. House of Representatives rejected the handing over of funds for the transfer of prisoners at the Guantánamo detention center to the United States, where they would be tried for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the Washington media reported. This vote represents, in fact, the prohibition of shutting down the prison installed on Cuban soil, one of President Barack Obama’s promises.
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