The Cuban government hopes to be able to transport 52 per cent of domestic trade by railroad by 2011, Minister of Transportation César Arocha affirmed. To achieve this, the island is working on the repair of 6,000 kilometers of railways, in addition to investing five billion dollars in the purchase of locomotives and cars.
Read MoreCuba will be the venue of a golf tournament sponsored by former Mexican athlete Ana Guevara on October 13-17, the Athens 2004 Olympic silver medal winner announced in a press conference held in Varadero beach resort, some 120 kilometers east of the island’s capital. The Cuban authorities are planning the construction of 16 new golf courses in the Caribbean island nation as part of a program to boost tourism.
Read MoreSalvadoran President Mauricio Funes confirmed he will make a state visit to Cuba in early September, during which he will meet with his counterpart Raúl Castro and will sign several agreements, one of which will allow TACA Airlines to have direct flights between the two nations. Funes re-established diplomatic relations with the island when he took power on June 1, 2009.
Read MoreA secret in hushed voices is not the same thing as a truth stated in public. The novelty was not the information in and of itself, but in the fact of hearing it directly, in public and from the mouth of someone who was involved in the event.
Read MoreThe documentary 1912, Breaking the Silence employs images, quotes, and music to trace the history of Afro-Cubans— their beginnings, leaders, adaptation to the environment and inclusion in the Creole society, their thinkers, their courage, and the discrimination and marginalization that led to the massacre of 1912, the famous “Race War.”
Read MoreAs I live on an island, what I’ve visited is each one of its provinces. Sometimes I’ve traveled in Chinese Yutong buses, sometimes in some not-so-uncomfortable car; or sometimes in a Russian Moskovich – into which water gets in when it rains, or smoke from the exhaust, or only the smell of gasoline. (25 photos)
Read MoreRio Zaza had a virtual monopoly on selling packaged fruit juices within Cuba. After the mysterious death of its general manager Roberto Baudrand, the product suddenly disappeared from Cuban supermarkets, bars and restaurants. No explanation was forthcoming.
Read MoreMexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs rejected the statements by former Cuban President Fidel Castro in his last two Reflections dedicated to reviewing the book “La mafia que se adueñó de México… y el 2012,” by former presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In the text, the Mexican Secretariat sincerely hoped that the Cuban population “can have free elections to vote for their representatives and that human rights be fully respected in the island.”
Read MoreSpecialists from the University of Computer Sciences (UCI) are working on a third version of the NOVA operation system, which it expects to present in early 2011 and which functions on GNU/Linux distributions, as part of a national program to change to free software, sources from that center of higher learning announced.
Read MoreAnother six imprisoned dissidents will be released “soon” and accepted the proposal of traveling to Spain after leaving prison, the Archbishopric of Havana announced Friday evening in a press release signed by spokesman Orlando Márquez.
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