With conservatives likely to be the biggest winners in Tuesday’s U.S. congressional elections, efforts to achieve a more compassionate national immigration policy may be one of the biggest losers.
Read MoreBy early Sunday morning the capital’s residents were outside beating on pans, yelling and forming spontaneous conga lines that snaked through the streets. Why, you ask?
Read More“It’s painful to build an altar of offerings to your dead child,” Abraham Fraijo, one of the leading activists in a citizens’ movement against violence and impunity in Mexico, wrote in his Twitter account while taking part in a series of protests during the celebrations of the Day of the Dead.
Read MoreA year after Havana Times began publishing a Spanish language version and two years from the website’s beginning the percentage of readers from Cuba, Spain and Latin America is on the rise.
Read MoreDilma Rousseff is the sixth woman in Latin America to reach the presidency. Argentina and Costa Rica are currently governed by women — Cristina Fernández and Laura Chinchilla — and Michelle Bachelet completed her term in March in Chile.
Read MoreThe 28th International Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV), the island’s principal commercial mart, will begin today in Expocuba fairgrounds on the outskirts of the Cuban capital, the local press reported. The event is being attended by representatives from more than 400 Cuban entities and from the business sector in 58 countries.
Read MoreThe underwater fibre-optic cable that will join Cuba to Venezuela will finally start being laid next January and will be operational in July 2011, Waldo Reboredo, vice president of the Gran Caribe Telecommunications joint venture, affirmed. This link will allow the island to increase by 3,000 the current speed of data, image and voice broadcasting.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Cuban opposition expect the island’s government will keep its promise and release the 13 dissidents who remain in prison, out of the 75 who were arrested in 2003, IPS reported. Out of this group at least six have expressed their wish to remain in the country and continue their political activities, instead of travelling to Spain, according to the agreement with Madrid and the Catholic Church.
Read MorePeople who visit Cuba are fascinated when they witness our “rolling museum” consisting essentially of automobiles manufactured in the United States that date back to the distant decades of the 1940s and ‘50s. In other words, these are cars that have been rolling up and down our streets for between 50 and 70 years. (24 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuban women’s volleyball team won their first match after two losses at the World Championships by edging Kazakhstan three sets to two (25-20 15-25 25-27 25-23 10-15) on Sunday.
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