The experimental cultivation of sponges has increased from two to 12 hectares in the area of Carahatas, on the northern coast of the province of Villa Clara, barely two years after the start of a project as part of the Program of Small Donations of the UN Environment Fund.
Read MoreThe U.S. Interests Section in Cuba summoned today the relatives of Cuban political prisoners who have rejected the possibility of traveling to Spain after their upcoming release, Laura Pollán, spokeswoman for the Ladies in White and wife of dissident Héctor Maseda, told the press. Representatives from the Spanish embassy in the island are also invited to the meeting.
Read MoreThe latest Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba is set to once again break the US Blockade on Cuba and “cross the border with 100 tons of humanitarian aid for the Cuban people.”
Read MoreKuwaiti Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is currently on an official visit to Cuba. On Monday, he met with Cuban President Raul Castro to discuss cooperation projects between the two nations.
Read MoreCarlo Sanchez is from Manzanillo and has devoted himself to restoration for more than 10 years. He’s worked in places under worse conditions, with much higher roofs than this one and with much shakier scaffolds. “If someone is afraid they cannot work in this trade,” he assured me. (15 photos)
Read More“For some time in Cuba, we have seen the development of a national debate geared towards shaping, renovating, and re-establishing —as I prefer to say— our community and national efforts. This debate has limits, but it also has vitality,” says Roberto Veiga Gonzalez in an interview with HT.
Read MoreChilean President Sebastián Piñera said in statements to that South American country’s El Mercurio daily that the United States should review its embargo policy against Cuba “because it has not had results.” Piñera also reiterated his government’s willingness to “receive a reasonable number of dissidents or political prisoners” from Cuba.
Read MoreRepresentatives of several European countries expressed their skepticism about the changes in Cuba after the release of the political prisoners, and the need to change the Common Position toward the island next September. Spain, the principal promoter of a modification of that position in force since 1996, is facing the opposition of the Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden and France, which prefer to maintain a more closed approach to Cuba.
Read MoreCuban specialists obtained a new formulation of the Heberpenta pentavalent vaccine, used to immunize children against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B, announced Luis Herrera, director of the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre (CIGB). From now on all the medicine’s components will come in one bottle, which reduces storage costs and manipulation.
Read MoreCuban Vice President and Minister of Communications, Ramiro Valdes Menendez traveled to Managua to participate Monday at the official celebration for the 31st anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution.
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