Russia’s state-run United Grains Company will send 100,000 tons of wheat as humanitarian aid to Cuba starting next February, announced Sergei Levin, the company’s executive president. Tropical Cuba is not a wheat producing nation but bread is a staple in the islanders’ diet.
Read MoreMore than 450 Cubans residing in 42 countries will participate starting next Wednesday in the “Meeting against the U.S. Blockade on Cuba and in Defense of National Sovereignty”, convened by the Cuban government, announced Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez.
Read MoreThe Norwegian embassy in Cuba and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment signed an agreement through which the European nation gave some US $885,000 to the island for the purchase and sending of medicines and other necessary supplies for the work of the Cuban medical brigade in Haiti.
Read MoreThe Pan American Health Organization praised Cuba’s medical collaboration in Haiti during a visit by its director Mirta Roses to one of three hospitals in the capital where the Cuban doctors are attending the population. Referring to Cuba’s longstanding medical aid program in Haiti, Roses said “since the Cubans were already in Haiti before the earthquake they have an advantage.”
Read MoreSituated on Old Havana’s main pedestrian boulevard, the Ilé Bata House of Drums is a community-based initiative in which children and teens of both sexes can develop their abilities in dance, painting, percussion, and theater. Presentations such as the one featured here —in which other artists were invited to participate— sooth the soul while filling the artists with pride.
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Read MoreI spent the first evening aboard the Giorita pestering the first and second mates for data about our cargo and route. We were carrying a light load: only 1,158 tons of merchandise. Counting the ship’s own weight, fuel, fresh water and ballast sea water, the crew’s weight and its food, it weighed 12,000 tons, 6,000 tons under capacity—a sign of the rough economic times for Cuba.
Read MoreAre we Cubans now divided between those who are “prepared politically” and those who are not? Are we in the presence of a new type of elite, a new class, a new form of exclusion? Is it that we no longer exclude people on the basis of race, gender, age, sexual orientation or social origin, but on the basis of political preparation? And what does having a good political preparation consist of exactly? Who determines which person has adequate preparation in this sphere?
Read MoreThe US government’s Voice of America acknowledged Friday the efforts of more than 400 Cuban doctors and health workers in Haiti. The move could lead to a collaboration with medicines needed at several field hospitals set up by the Cubans for treating the earthquake victims.
Read More“Visiting unhappy Cuba is especially thought-provoking for anyone familiar with its unhappy neighbors,” writes Stephen Kinzer for guardian.co.uk.
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