The US government will process the emigration applications of the ex Cuban political prisoners established in Spain through the program of significant public interest benefits, which will allow them to establish themselves in the United States as an exceptional manner, a State Department official cited by the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald daily said.
Read MoreThe suburban agriculture programme was extended to 57 of Cuba’s 169 municipalities, Adolfo Rodríguez Nodals, head of the National Urban Agriculture Group who directs that initiative, said. The programme’s aim is to create a green belt around the population settlements to meet their inhabitants’ food needs. According to the specialist, by March 2011 almost all the island’s municipalities should be incorporated into this plan.
Read MoreThe earthquake of 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale registered yesterday by the Stations Network of the National Seismological Service in the eastern Cuban provinces of Holguín, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo was the 40th of the year.
Read MoreIrish Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire was deported from Israel Tuesday after spending more than a week in detention at Tel Aviv Airport as she attempted to fight the deportation order.
Read MoreNicaragua held Cuba to four hits and no runs while mounting a 1-0 lead going into the seventh inning of their game in the World Cup/Pan American Games qualifying tournament on Monday night. As preoccupation reined among Cuba’s fans their team turned the tables in the seventh with Nicaraguan starter Elvin Orozco no longer on the mound.
Read MoreThe Fish Ark that you and your colleagues, and especially its founder Ivan Dibble, have set up in Mexico to help save rare fish from extinction is truly an inspiration and a model of what can be done in other countries to help conserve threatened and often largely unknown endemic fish species.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has now begun the process of expelling hundreds of thousands of workers from the labor market and is organizing the country in agreement with the rules of the private marketplace.
Read MoreIn a phone consultation with Hotel Cayo Levisa, located in Pinar del Rio, they said that the name comes from a small-to medium-sized fish known as the levisa, which is common in the waters surrounding Cayo Levisa as well as in other parts of Cuba. The fish is not eaten.
Read MoreBrazil’s presidential elections, which will be decided in an Oct. 31 runoff, have once against reflected the confrontation of the two parties that have dominated national politics since 1994. However, the unexpectedly strong performance of Green Party candidate Marina Silva points to a weakening of that dichotomy.
Read MoreWe applaud the fact that actions are being taken to free us from stagnation and that at least basic issues are being addressed. However, contrary to the official line, the content, form and order of what has begun demonstrate signs of improvisation, a lack of foresight, the absence of transparency, contempt for revolutionary theory, pressuring and imposition.
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