The social worker Andres Carrion Alvarez, who was detained and roughed up just before the Mass of Benedict XVI in Santiago de Cuba on March 26, was released late Friday, reported the website of the Miami-based “Radio Marti.”
Read MoreVenezuelan president Hugo Chavez made his sixth trip to Cuba in two months on Saturday, to continue his radiotherapy treatment against cancer. On this occasion, Chavez plans to stay for over a week in Havana, unlike the last three visits when he arrived on Saturday and returned home on Wednesday evening.
Read MoreThe Summit of the Americas ended without a final declaration, with Cuba and the Malvinas Islands being the chief apples of discord.
Read MoreA half century of attempts from Washington to bring down the Castro government in Cuba through an economic embargo, travel ban and diplomatic isolation is under attack from friends and foes alike at the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.
Read MoreVenezuelan president Hugo Chavez decided today not to attend the Summit of the Americas in Cartegena, Colombia (April 14-15) for medical reasons.
Read MoreThe VI Summit of the Americas officially begins today in Cartagena, Colombia and as of last night the presence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was still undecided on making a stopover en route to Cuba for a fourth round of radiotherapy treatment.
Read MoreRene Gonzalez, one of the Cuban Five, returned to the United States on Friday, after spending two weeks in Havana to visit his seriously ill brother. The trip took place under total discretion after Gonzalez received special permission for the trip from Judge Joan Lenard in Miami.
Read MoreUS President Barack Obama today laid the blame for poor US-Cuba relations squarely on Havana for its not acquiescing to Washington’s demands on how the island should be governed.
Read MoreUS yacht owners are still waiting permission from their government to travel to Havana to participate in the race sponsored by the Hemingway International Yacht Club of Cuba.
Read MoreDetails concerning the life of Dalia Soto del Valle Jorge, the current wife of Fidel Castro, will be revealed at the end of this year in the book La compañera (Comrade), written by US-based journalist Nancy Perez Crespo.
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