A few days ago the new Cuban baseball roster was announced for the Intercontinental Cup to take place starting October 23 in Chinese Taipei. The restructuring of Team Cuba has generated more than a few comments in our country among the followers of the national sport, especially over the exclusion of Sancti Spiritus slugger Frederich Cepeda.
Read MoreBefore Obama took office he gave the impression of his desire to make changes in the hostile US policy towards Cuba and possibly free-up ordinary US citizens to visit the neighboring country.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Cuban opposition described as neoliberal the economic reforms announced by the island’s government, which include the laying off of half a million state workers. “The combination of massive layoffs with the way in which self-employment is being reintroduced and with a new foreign capital project, hidden from Cuban citizens, is the opening to the late, harsh and primary neoliberalism,” states the document presented in this capital by Manuel Cuesta Morúa, of the Arco Progresista social democratic coalition.
Read MoreThe Havana Club Company expects a recovery in its exports this year to reach the 3.6 million boxes of rum sold on the international market, after a three per cent decline in 2009 due to the economic crisis, said Marc Beuve-Mery, director of the association between Cuba Ron S.A. and the French group Pernod Ricard.
Read MoreThe European Union (EU) will not make radical changes to its policy toward Cuba when the foreign affairs representatives of the 27 meet next Monday, although a proposal could be drawn up to explore new options, diplomatic sources in Brussels predicted. Spain’s intention of eliminating the so-called Common Position and establish a new framework of bilateral relations is facing the opposition of countries such as Germany and the Czech Republic.
Read MoreThe expression “self-employed workers who hire workers” is a negation in itself. “Self-employed” doesn’t begin with the word “self” by mere chance; it is work carried out by oneself, for the sustenance of oneself and one’s family. It does not involve the exploitation of other people’s wage labor, as a norm, and nor does it entail working for someone else.
Read MoreOne of the principal acts evidenced by the leaks made public by the NGO —whose most visible member is the organization’s Australian director, Julian Assange— is the policy of the American occupation troops and their allies in systematically covering up the deaths of innocent civilians.
Read MoreThe 14th International Livestock Fair took place in Rancho Boyeros, Havana earlier this month. Representatives of firms from Germany, Argentina, Spain, South Korea, Panama, Switzerland and host Cuba were on hand to see the eight days of exhibits and competitions. The fairgrounds are the oldest in Cuba founded in 1933. Here’s a look at what took place. (26 photos)
Read MoreCuba surpassed for the seventh consecutive year the figure of two million tourists, on this occasion 12 days before as compared to 2009, according to a Ministry of Tourism communiqué. This figure represents a three per cent growth in this sector, considered last decade as the locomotive of the Cuban economy.
Read MoreThe Cuban scientific community is seeking new varieties of agricultural products resistant to extreme conditions such as intense droughts and hurricanes, which could become more frequent due to climate change, Sergio Rodríguez, director of the National Institute of Research on Tropical Tubers, affirmed. According to the specialist, that institution has a world-renowned germ plasm bank
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