The top story today in Cuba’s official newspaper Granma is that Segundo Frente, a community in eastern Cuba, elected Raul Castro as one of their representatives to attend the VII Communist Party this coming April.
Read MoreThe Costa Rican and Mexican governments agreed today to facilitate direct flights for Cuban migrants from the Central American country to Mexico. The flights will cost $790 USD, double the average round trip fare.
Read MoreHigh temperatures will range between 24 and 29° C (75 to 84 F) and the low temperatures will be between 19 and 21° C (66 and 70 F). The sea surface temperature is 25° C (77 F).
Read MoreToday, a group of UN independent jurists described the situation faced by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – who has resided in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as a refugee since June of 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden – as a case of “arbitrary detention.”
Read MorePope Francis returns briefly to Cuba on February 12 for a meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, announced the Vatican on Friday. His last trip to the island was for an official four day visit back in September 2015.
Read MoreA second group of Cuban migrants, this time comprised of 184 persons, left on Thursday night by air from Costa Rica for El Salvador, from where they will continue en route to the United States, their final destination.
Read MoreThe alarm was set off by Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura: The panorama of the 2015-2016 sugar harvest is unfavorable and there doesn’t seem to be any hope for a recovery that would make possible meeting the government’s production plan.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador announced that several institutions have made the arrangements needed to transport seven flights of Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica en route to the United States over the month of February.
Read MoreFrench President Francois Hollande hosted talks today with Cuba’s Raul Castro in a visit that highlights the rapprochement between the two countries. “We appreciate the leadership of France at the time of the construction of a new stage in relations between the EU and Cuba,” said Castro.
Read MoreCuban authorities will begin testing later this year in two neighborhoods of Old Havana to allow Internet access from homes, something previously prohibited for ordinary Cubans. A start up date and the prices to be charged were not announced.
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