The United States today told Cuba to withdraw 15 diplomats from Washington to ensure “fairness” between the two countries, after the State Department ordered more than half of its officials to leave the island until the mysterious attacks on their health is clarified.
Read MoreCuba sent on Friday a brigade of 37 doctors and paramedics to the Mexican state of Oaxaca to attend the victims of the earthquake that left nearly 100 people dead on September 7. On September 19, a new earthquake of magnitude 7.1 left 330 people dead and hundreds of buildings destroyed, especially in Mexico City.
Read MoreThis Saturday, it’ll be two months without pictures of opposition protests against Nicolas Maduro’s government which were appearing in newspapers worldwide every day. Nonetheless, the country’s crisis is still alive and kicking and is moving forward like a steamroller.
Read MoreHurricane Maria, which caused massive damage and casualties in numerous Caribbean countries is now moving into the open Atlantic, away from the region.
Read MoreWearing improvised masks, motorcycle helmets and using picks and shovels, hundreds of people in Mexico City formed human chains along buildings that had crumbled down after the earthquake, in an attempt to try and help remove rubble and rescue victims, even during the night.
Read MoreThe African palm production company, Agrodesarrollo S.A. has violated environmental norms intended to protect Nicaragua’s natural resources according to an investigation carried out by the online environmental magazine “Mongabay Latam”*. The company, which maintains plantations of African Palm over a vast extension of land in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region, has been linked to Jorge Granera Sacasa, brother of Aminta Granera, chief of the National Police. The probe yielding this information included examination of official documents, a visit to the affected zone, and interviews with functionaries of the regional governments.
Read MoreHurricane Maria continues its path of devastation tonight to the Virgin Islands and should cross Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Incredibly the system now packs winds of 175 mph (280 km/h) and is expected to pass over land with full force.
Read MoreThe Cuban weather service (Insmet) reported this morning that Hurricane Maria remains a highly dangerous system with maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h as it heads for the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. A chilling report from the Dominica Prime Minister indicates disaster was widespread on that island as Maria passed over it on Monday night.
Read MoreHurricane Maria is now a maximum Cateogry 5 storm with sustained winds of 160 mph (260 kph), after having intensified greatly in the course of the day. At 8:00 PM Cuba time (EDT) the eye of the potentially catastrophic storm is approaching the island of Dominica, reports the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Read MoreSeveral hurricane warnings and watches are in effect for the Eastern Caribbean as hurricane Maria churns west and is expected to pass over or near several island countries starting Monday afternoon. Whether Maria will effect Cuba and possibly Florida will be the subject of reports in the coming days.
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