Cuban President Raul Castro warned today about threats of “foreign interference” in Latin America and the Caribbean by the “centers of power that are not resigned to losing control of the region.” He spoke at the opening of the Summit of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC) in Havana.
Read MoreFidel Castro met on Monday with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at a meeting in which they discussed the recent expansion of the port of Mariel. Photos of the encounter taken by Fidel’s son Alex Castro appeared in the official cubadebate.cu website.
Read MorePresident Raul Castro and his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff today inaugurated the first part of the container terminal at the port of Mariel, Cuba’s largest current infrastructure project, funded with support from Brazil,
Read MoreFidel Castro hosted a luncheon for Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Sunday at his home on the west side of Havana. No photos have yet to be released of the two leaders.
Read MoreThe presidents of Brazil and Bolivia, Dilma Rousseff and Evo Morales, arrived Sunday in Cuba to take part in the CELAC summit on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Read MoreThe president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner arrived today in Havana to attend the second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). The arrival of Cristina, heading the first top level delegation to arrive, came 72 hours before the start of the event.
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 18 to the 24, 2014. As no progress is made in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, army attacks this week leave two Palestinians killed and dozens more injured.
Read MoreHundreds of people marched in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of Freedom Day. On Jan. 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activists marched around the Forrest County Courthouse in support of black voting rights. The rally was the beginning of a historic year in Mississippi. Months later civil rights groups launched Freedom Summer.
Read MoreJustin Bieber says he is somewhere in Cuba today, possibly getting away from the legal mess created by some eggs splashed on the house of his neighbor in Calabasas, California.
Read MoreOne year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life. Swartz died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology based on the belief that the articles should be freely available online.
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