Six US airlines received authorization today from the US government to begin offering this fall direct commercial flights between several US cities and Cuba, the first in over 50 years. For some unknown reason, Havana isn’t on the initial list of allowed destinations but will be included later this summer.
Read MoreMost Cubans using Internet outside their limited workplace connections take advantage of the new WiFi hotspots located in some public areas of Havana and the provincial capitals. See how they use the service.
Read MoreThe Government of Nicaragua has alternative sources of external funding and “will not die” by the virtual collapse of the Venezuelan aid, which has supported the country’s economy for nearly ten years, said Bayardo Arce, economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega on Thursday.
Read MoreIf everything goes as the script has it, in 2018 Raul Castro will retire as president of Cuba and pass on the baton to his First Vice President, Miguel Diaz Canel, currently on a visit to Russia to meet with President Vladiimir Putin and other top authorities.
Read MoreParamount Pictures will film in Cuba parts of the fifth installment of the film “Transformers”, reported dpa on Thursday.
Read MoreIn an effort “to gradually give more value” to Cuban salaries, the government announced Monday it would drop the price of 0.5 kg of imported milk powder by 9 percent to 2.65 CUC (around 3.00 usd).
Read MoreThe El Trigal wholesale market for farm products, located in the outlying Havana municipality of Boyeros, will be closed as of Friday due to “irregularities”, announced government authorities. The move shuts down an important supply source to the population of the capital, particularly the retail markets, other sales outlets and self-employed street vendors, the main buyers.
Read MoreThe leak of 11.4 million documents kept by the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, popularly known as the Panama Papers, has afforded the public access to thousands of Nicaragua-related files that were reviewed by a Confidencial journalistic team over the course of four months.
Read MoreCuba’s only telecommunications company, ETECSA, signed agreements with T-Mobile that will benefit US customers using voice traffic, texting and data transmission, the two companies announced on Monday.
Read MoreAt the request of the Maduro government, the Venezuelan Supreme Court has overturned virtually every law passed by the legislature, controlled by the opposition. The latest came on Friday when it ruled unconstitutional a law passed by the National Assembly granting property titles to the occupants of government built housing.
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