Cuba and the European Union (EU) officially renewed cooperation, according to a joint statement signed Thursday by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and European Commissioner Louis Michel. The two parties coincided in the need to continue contacts to carry forward the agreement.
Read MoreBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will travel to Cuba on October 30, on an official two-day visit, stated the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. Lula visited the island last January to sign several cooperation agreements.
Read MoreCuba and the European Union (EU) will be discussing a framework cooperation agreement during the 3-day visit to Havana by Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, which began on Wednesday. Such an agreement would be the first step to establish a working program that defines concrete projects, five years after cooperation relations were broken off.
Read MoreThe Delirio Habanero Piano Bar reopens its doors on Thursday, October 23. The announcement comes as good news for music lovers who went months without this popular venue located at the Teatro Nacional (Paseo and Avenida 39, Vedado).
Read MoreVietnamese Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan is in Cuba for an official visit during which she will meet with her counterpart Carlos Lage and other government and Communist Party leaders.
Vietnam has a long-standing special relationship with Cuba, magnified during the Vietnam War when Fidel Castro visited the Southeast Asian nation. Later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vietnam showed its solidarity with Cuba when the Caribbean nation saw its economy hit rock bottom in the early 1990s.
Read MoreIf you are a woman and have also had the dubious good luck of being pretty, sensual and charming, which is very much the same thing as being flypaper in a candy store, then you will have to wait for retirement age to enjoy the enormous pleasure, of looking around on your own terms, calmly and freely, without anyone looking at you.
Read MoreThe corporate media never covers us; the New York Times has never mentioned Project Censored; the Los Angeles Times did a book review once, but they really do not want to talk about us, they just wish we would go away.
Read MoreMexico and Cuba’s Foreign Ministers Patricia Espinosa and Felipe Perez Roque noted at a press conference Monday that the “standoff” in bilateral relations had been overcome, with dialogue and mutual confidence recovered. The two officials signed an agreement on migratory affairs during Perez Roque’s visit to Mexico City. The document affirms that the “U.S. migratory policy toward Cuba encourages illegal migration and human trafficking,” reported IPS.
Read MoreThe 2008 Guillermo Barreto in Memoria Drum Festival gets underway in Havana on Tuesday, October 21, taking place at several theaters and cultural venues in the capital through Saturday.
Read MoreWhat can I say that doesn’t seem deaf or blind? What path can I take where I don’t feel like an invalid? I hesitate to affirm anything because I have a negligible access to information.On the other hand, I can say without a doubt, that all of the Cuban media pass on the same discourse with the same take.
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