Cuban president Raul Castro said today that his offer to talk with the United States still stands, including topics such as human rights and freedom of the press, if the dialogue takes place “under equal conditions.”
Read MoreDozens arrested on Tuesday during the funeral Mass for the dissident Oswaldo Paya were released by Cuban police by Wednesday. The citizens were arrested after shouting Freedom, Freedom!, which is taken by the authorities as a counterrevolutionary slogan.
Read MoreCuban president Raul Castro spoke on Monday at the closing of the first of two brief annual sessions of the Cuban legislature. His main theme was the advance of the economic reforms on the island. We present you an official translation of the complete speech.
Read MoreGuillermo Farinas and other Cuban dissidents were detained Tuesday in Havana, at the end of the funeral mass for Oswaldo Paya. Paya, 60, regarded by Cuban authorities as a key opposition figure, was killed in a car accident late Sunday.
Read MoreThe bi-annual meeting of Cuba’s National Assembly of Popular Power (parliament) concluded on Sunday without the body taking up the issue of immigration reform, despite Cuban President Raul Castro having announced such an action on two separate occasions.
Read MoreThe funeral and burial of Oswaldo Paya, the leader of the opposition group Christian Liberation Movement, will take place in Havana on Tuesday at the Colon cemetery, while his death on Sunday remains surrounded by the questioning voices among other Cuban dissidents.
Read MoreThe vice president of the Cuba’s Council of Ministers, Marino Murillo, advocated before parliament on Monday the creation of new non-agricultural cooperatives as part of the process of “updating” the country’s economic system.
Read MoreEmblematic sports broadcaster Hector Rodriguez died on Monday at the age of 66, a victim of cancer.
Read MoreCuba’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 2.1 percent in the first half of 2012, reported Adel Yzquiero, the Minister of Economy and Planning, when speaking before parliament at the Havana Convention Center on Monday.
Read MoreA caravan of buses brought to Cuba in the past by the US interfaith organization Pastors for Peace, toured several major arteries of the Cuban capital on Sunday.
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