Cuban writer, playwright and theater director Humberto Arenal died yesterday in Havana at the age of 85. The author of El sol a plomo (1959), Los animales sagrados (1967) and Quien mato a Ivan Ivanovich? (1995), Arenal won the National Prize for Literature in 2007.
Read MoreA National Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba will begin Saturday morning and run through Sunday at the Havana Convention Center with the participation of 811 delegates. The delegates will focus discussion on the reorganization of the party in the wake of the approval of the “Guidelines” for economic “updating” at the 6th Party Congress last April.
Read MoreWhen Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff arrives in Cuba for an official visit next Tuesday a meeting with dissidents of the Castro government is not on her agenda.
Read MoreCuba will hold an unprecedented conference this weekend of its political leadership, immersed in a deep economic reform program. Though generally viewed with skepticism and indifference, the meeting is also generating certain hopes for political reforms on the island.
Read MoreTwo Cuban soccer players absconded from their team on Tuesday during continental women’s Olympic qualifying matches taking place in Vancouver, Canada.
Read MoreThe exhibition “Traveling Without a Map: Cuban Art from the ‘80s,” with works by 53 artists from the island, was opened yesterday in a Mexican gallery, according to information from the Yucatan newspaper.
Read MoreCuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino was honored on Tuesday in the island’s capital city with the “Order of the Grand Cross of Isabel the Catholic,” awarded by the Spanish government.
Read MoreThe Fourth International Montecristo Cup Golf Tournament will take place from April 19–21 at Cuba’s Varadero beach resort, announced the organizers yesterday at a news conference.
Read MoreThe tiny Spanish political party Union Progreso y Democracia (UPyD) on Tuesday sent letters to the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace requesting Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Paya and Yoani Sanchez be included as official candidates for the award.
Read MoreFormer All-Star pitcher Norge Luis Vera was discharged from the hospital today after having been admitted there a month ago in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. He continues to recuperate from an automobile accident.
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