The US State Department wants to send at least 15 Cubans to graduate school in the United States so they can “more effectively establish, lead, manage, and grow independent organizations in Cuba.”
Read MoreCuba and China will sign an agreement today on a joint venture involving the construction of a large building complex to accompany an 18-hole golf course east of Havana, the goverment’s ACN news reported.
Read MoreElaina Faulner, an English tourist visiting Cuba, was the 4-millionth visitor to the Che memorial. Minutes after being informed of this, she told the press she was surprised and overjoyed at the news.
Read MoreSpain’s minister of the Economy and Competitiveness, Luis de Guindos Jurado (shown in photo above), will travel to Cuba in the second week of July to meet with high-ranking government officials, the EFE news agency reported.
Read MoreCuban authorities said today that the island has no plans to open up to the controversial use of transgenic seeds, despite the possibilities offered by them to increase agricultural production, reported dpa news.
Read MoreTo mark its official launch, Engage Cuba began airing a new television ad highlighting the outdated restrictions on Americans that deny them the right to travel to and conduct business in Cuba.
Read MoreA total of 18 homes for the elderly in Cuba are operated by religious institutions and fraternal organizations, both of which are maintained by private donations and tax-payer’s money, in addition to the 12 million Cuban pesos (US $600,000) they receive from the State budget every year.
Read MoreRecent press and financial institutions reports indicate that Venezuela has substantially cut back petroleum deliveries to Cuba under the terms and conditions of the October 2000 Convenio Integral de Cooperación Venezuela-Cuba CIC barter agreement.
Read MoreThe production of cow’s milk in Cuba fell once again (by 10.5 million liters) in the early months of the year, keeping the downward trend since 2013. The production decline in the first quarter of 2015 (around 12%) compared to the same period of the previous year seems to be influenced by an elementary factor: 19.000 fewer milking cows.
Read MoreLast February, when 83-year-old veteran military leader Ramiro Valdés Menéndez visited the urban cooperative La Esperanza [The Hope] in the city of Fomento, the 11 partners had great expectations.
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