The Ministry of Finances and Prices of Cuba announced an increase in the price of the fuel sold at the island’s service stations due to the 25 per cent rise in the price of oil on the international market and the forecasted further hike in the coming months.
Read MoreCuba hopes to conclude this year the modernization of its seismological system with the installation of 18 high sensibility seismometers and the publication on the Internet of all the information on the occurrence of telluric movements on the island, Bladimir Moreno, director of the National Centre for Seismological Research, affirmed.
Read MoreHugo Chavez’s United Socialist Party retained a majority of seats in the Venezuelan parliament on Sunday but lost the 2/3 majority that allowed the president to implement policies virtually by decree.
Read MoreCuba’s thrashing of visiting Nicaragua appears to indicate the island’s baseball team is ready for the upcoming Pan American Games and World Cup qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico on October 1-13.
Read MoreThe opposition is getting ready for a comeback in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Venezuela, although President Hugo Chávez’s allies seem set to win a comfortable majority, perhaps as much as two-thirds of the seats.
Read MoreThe opening to the private sector in Cuba, with the authorization of greater possibilities for self-employment, is approaching the island to the socialist model Venezuela is building, Hugo Chávez, president of the South American country, affirmed. Chávez rejected that he was copying what the opposition calls “Cuban communism.”
Read MoreThe European Union (EU) should respond to Cuba’s gestures regarding the release of political prisoners and change its policy toward the island, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos affirmed. “I believe we will have the occasion, I’m convinced, to change what was a common position that has become obsolete for a new bilateral relation between Cuba and the European Union,” the official said when referring to the review of the issue next October.
Read MoreAn earthquake of 3.0 degrees on the Richter scale was registered yesterday at noon in the mountainous area of the eastern province of Granma, over 700 kilometers east of the Cuban capital, the Network of National Seismological Service Stations reported.
Read MoreTwelve persons died and 35 were injured in a traffic accident in the central province of Villa Clara, when a truck’s trailer hit a passenger bus, the local press reported. Traffic accidents are one of the first causes of death in Cuba.
Read More“I don’t understand why we should celebrate [Independence]. There will be no freedom in Mexico until repression against indigenous peoples is eliminated,” says Sadhana, whose name means “moon” in the indigenous Mazahua language.
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