The chief of the General Staff of the Cuban Armed Forces, Alvaro López Miera, arrived Sunday in Russia heading a military delegation from the island with the aim of reviewing the state of bilateral cooperation in that area, reported the Cuban press. In September 2009 the two countries signed an agreement to modernize the Cuban army.
Read MoreThe Police in the Cuban capital blocked the weekly march of the Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) on Sunday reported IPS news service. The women are carrying out an ongoing protest demanding the release of their husbands and relatives which they claim are held as political prisoners.
Read MoreMany visitors to Cuba who have long-term Cuban partners (or friends) arrive in Cuba with a tourist visa, and then have it changed to an A2 “family stay” visa once inside the country. This requires going to the immigration office with your boyfriend PLUS the owner of the home where you wish to stay (if the owner is NOT your boyfriend). Be sure to take your passport, visa and return flight ticket. Sometimes the home owner needs to show the propiedad (ownership papers) of the home. You will also need CUC 40 in sellos de timbre (tax stamps).
Read MoreCarlos always tries to participate in the meetings of his CDR (Committee for the Defense of the Revolution) and in the Report-back Assemblies of his community delegate (representative to the city council). He feels these are the appropriate places for raising the problems he suffers as a citizen of this country, as opposed to making simple comments to kill time at a bus stop.
Read MoreWhether one is within or outside Cuba, there are a number of locations, organizations and even websites from which one can either directly purchase wooden handicrafts, or get information on such purchases.
Read MoreFrom their altitude, Silvio and Pablo, with their recent clear and strong calls for fundamental changes in our society, again give strength to the trapped, decimated, troubled, but always faithful and revolutionary, generation of ’68. They, together with the forces of positive change, would be invincible, because they are recognized, trusted voices of our generation.
Read MoreSeveral groups of internationally recognized Cuban musicians will perform at concerts in Havana and Santiago de Cuba at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday in opposition to a string of attacks by the United States against the island’s government on accusations of human rights abuses.
Read MoreUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that Cuba’s leaders Raul and Fidel Castro do not want Washington to lift the economic blockade on the island, in place for a half century. However, the Obama administration and Congress have the power to end the blockade independent of whether the Cuban leaders really want that to occur.
Read MoreWhereas there is regular bus service from Havana to Viñales (see below), there is no longer any bus service from Havana to Cayo Levisa. So you have several options:
Read MoreHow can you achieve change when there is no real dialogue, not even among revolutionaries themselves; or when they don’t give space in the country’s only press to the opinions of communists and revolutionaries who promote a socialist perspective different from the failed official outlook; or when they reject other writings dealing with those issues?
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