By carrying out a more organized plan, our country would recoup great benefits thanks to the recovery of waste. The media undertakes campaigns in support of creating an environmental awareness among the public, but there is still a lot to be done. (25 photos)
Read MoreI live in Denmark and want to know if my Danske Bank credit card (which is not a MasterCard or Visa or Visa Gold) can be used in Cuba.
Read MoreWe heard a little girl say, “Look, mom; they’re doing volunteer labor…” Her phrase sent chills down our spines since that expression is often used in Cuba for labor that is far from being voluntary. However, ours was indeed just that. (14 photos)
Read MoreChinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is arriving this Friday to Cuba in reply to an official invitation. During his stay he will hold talks with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, according to official sources, reported IPS. China is Cuba’s second leading trade partner after Venezuela.
Read MoreThe abundant rains in July in Cuba are still insufficient to compensate for the deficit accumulated in the country’s aquiferous reserves, and the drought continues affecting economic and social sectors, warned Jorge Garcia Fernandez, director of Hydrographic Basins of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources. In statements published today by the official press, García said the contraction of the reservoirs and underwater sources is not only due to the shortage of rain last May and June, but rather that it had begun previously.
Read MoreCuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament) will protest “to the world” the “inhuman” treatment being received in prison by Gerardo Hernández, one of the five Cuban agents serving long sentences in U.S. prisons. Parliament leader Ricardo Alarcón said that Hernández is suffering from hypertension and bacteria that has damaged his health. Despite that condition he is kept under punishment for no reason at all.
Read MoreCuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas was discharged on Thursday from the hospital in his hometown of Santa Clara, where he spent the major part of a hunger strike he had begun on February 24. Fariñas stopped his fast on July 8, after 52 dissident prisoners began being released.
Read MoreAs this week began, a training ship from Brazil arrived in the port of Havana on a four-day official visit in Cuba. The Havana public enjoyed visiting the craft on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. (30 photos)
Read MoreIn reality, the labor imbalance seems to have been introduced by official propaganda that overvalued the role of professionals in society. Finally, life has demonstrated that it is impossible to construct buildings relying only on architects.
Read MoreCuba maintains a close watch on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and is foreseeing the measures in case of an impact by the spill, affirmed Cuban Minister of Basic Industry Yadira García to MPs from the energy and environment commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power. García said it is necessary to remain alert in face of this risk, for which a working group was created made up by the Civil Defense and high-level specialists.
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