The current hurricane season could intensify due to the start of La Niña, the cooling of the waters of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, reported the Climate Centre of the Cuban Institute of Meteorology. Although the forecasts were that this would be a more active season than 2009, up to now the island has not been affected by a hurricane.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro met with Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba, who is the leader of the Colombians for Peace Movement, Cuba’s state-run press reported. During the meeting they dealt with issues related to the peace process in the South American country. Castro agreed to meet again with Córdoba and other Colombian leaders next Sunday.
Read MoreAfter four years of convalescence the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution is back in the limelight as the government’s leading voice on international affairs.
Read More“Even today, despite the apparent freedom, women are also caught between two alternatives: either I’m a feminist and I fight against men, or I’m a lesbian. These are the only two possibilities for escape, at least if you don’t realize that there’s another possibility – not one of escape, but of liberation,” says Ruben Lombida.
Read MoreSenator Piedad Córdoba, president of the Colombian Congress’ Peace Commission, will talk with former President Fidel Castro on the possibilities of achieving peace in that South American country, the legislator announced through the Twitter social network. Córdoba hopes to present to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) an initiative in that sense, which would include the guerrillas and the paramilitary.
Read MoreThe U.S. couple of trapeze artists made up by Sylvia Friedman and Samuel Sion performed at the inauguration of the Circuba 2010 international festival at the Cuban capital’s Karl Marx Theatre. Friedman and Sion are the first circus artists from the United States to perform on the island since 1959.
Read MoreMassachusetts Democratic Representative Bill Delahunt asked U.S. President Barack Obama to allow the operation of flights to and from Cuba in the airport in Tampa, south of Florida, with the aim of facilitating access of Cuban-American families to trips to the island, the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald reported. Until now the authorized airports are in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.
Read MoreAn exhibition of the art work by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the US for nearly 12 years charged with espionage, will be inaugurated in New York on September 3, announced Benjamin Lamas, member of the solidarity with Cuba committee, which will also organize starting September 12 a month dedicated to giving information about the case.
Read MoreThe good thing for the prisoners on both sides is that their governments have not ceased in their efforts to rescue them. For 10 years Havana has been orchestrating campaign after campaign, while in Washington people have remained quite concerned since Gross was captured last year.
Read MoreCuban pianist Alexis Bosch and his Cuban Jazz project will participate starting today and until August 18 in the Oslo Jazz Festival and the Sildajazz, Haugesund and Varanger Festivalen, all in Norway. Bosch is considered an heir to important Cuban jazz musicians such as Felipe Dulzaides, Emiliano Salvador and Chucho Valdés.
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