Despite the Soccer World Cup, news that the Cuban government will release 52 prisoners of conscious has traveled the world. Negotiations between President Raul Castro, Cardinal Jaime Ortega & Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos have panned out.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will release in the next few weeks all the political prisoners that remain of the 75 opposition members arrested in 2003, a press release by the Archbishopric of Havana reported today. The decision was notified to Cardinal Jaime Ortega during a meeting with the foreign ministers of Cuba and Spain, Bruno Rodríguez and Miguel Angel Moratinos, respectively. The released dissidents will be able to leave the country in a process that will be completed in the next three or four months.
Read MoreThe government of Venezuela will deport to Cuba Salvadoran Francisco Chávez Abarca, accused in the island of preparing the attacks against hotel installations in 1997 which caused the death of Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo.
Read MoreSpanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Miguel Angel Moratinos said he was confident that his visit to Cuba will contribute to the definitive lifting of the Common Position of the European Union (EU) toward the island, a policy in force since 1996, in statements during his talks with his counterpart Bruno Rodríguez, reported the press accredited in the Caribbean country.
Read More“In terms of what to do, there’s promoting freedom; increasing the spaces for study, debate and non-policed criticism of social behavior; increasing educational activities around obligations and duties that relate to citizens before the law, as well as generating and “making” more social justice,” said Victor Fowler in an interview with HT.
Read MoreFor more than a decade in Cuba, it’s been very difficult to eat fruit. In the State-run markets they are rarely found. We can only discover a little in privately-run markets, though in quantities insufficient to satisfy the general demand and at sky-high prices.
Read MoreSpanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will meet today with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez, during the first day of his official visit to the island, the third since he took over his post. Moratinos has been one of the strongest supporters of a change of policy toward Cuba within the European Union (EU). It is expected that his visit will bring changes in the situation of the political prisoners in the Caribbean country.
Read MoreOn this occasion a group from Santiago from Cuba —Vudu Haitiano, musicians who maintain the traditions of their ancestors— was enjoyed along with the modeling of clothes and swimsuits along a small runway. Though everything was quite modest, it was appreciated by the Old Havana public. (21 photos)
Read MoreA 4.7 Richter scale earthquake was reported on Monday afternoon in Cuba’s eastern most province of Guantanamo, reported IPS citing the US Geological Survey. The tremor is the latest in a series of telluric movements felt in this part of the island since the devastating January 12 earthquake in neighboring Haiti.
Read MoreThe 21st U.S.-Cuba Friendship Caravan, organized by the inter-religious foundation Pastors for Peace, began this weekend its annual tour of cities in Canada and the United States. On this occasion the donations collected by the initiative will back the recovery in the areas in Cuba affected by the 2008 hurricanes and the development of children.
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