A group of 18 Cubans made it to a Florida beach on Wednesday after navigating for five days on an old boat powered by a Soviet automobile engine. Under the Cuban Adjustment Act the Cubans will receive resettlement assistance and a fast-track to permanent residency.
Read MoreEuropean Parliament Vice President Alejo Vidal-Quadras, of the governing conservative Spanish Popular Party (Partido Popular), on Monday sent a letter of condolence to Ofelia Acevedo, the widow of the recently deceased Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya.
Read MoreAround 59,000 students and 10,000 teachers are set to participate in a training for enumerators and supervisors next month for the eighteenth “Population and Housing Census” in Cuba that will take place next March.
Read MoreWe are in for a period of typical summer weather. The days will be hot and become cloudy in the mid-afternoons, with showers or storms occurring due to daytime heating and the influence of sea breezes.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Finance of Cuba has decided to standardize the prices of 100 basic products — from soap to the chicken — in all stores that sell in hard currency.
Read MoreCuban journalist Daniel Benitez, 30, who came to the United States in late July, is considered part of a generation marked by political skepticism and the search for survival,.
Read MoreA shipment of 66,000 pounds of goods from Miami arrived in Havana on Friday on board the Ana Cecilia, the boat owned by the International Port Corp (CPI) for sending freight to Cuba.
Read MoreCuban Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra met with Indian Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna on Tuesday during the first summit between the Asian country and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (ECLAC).
Read MoreCuban-Americans belonging to the “Democracy Movement” announced on Monday their plan to organize another fleet of private yachts to approach the Cuban coast and launch fireworks on Saturday, August 11.
Read MoreThe Cuban government on Tuesday reiterated its stand in support of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, This occurred during the World Conference against nuclear and hydrogen Bombs in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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