“This group of stars will be coming together for the first time in a project of Cuban music, specifically the son style,” said Joaquín Betancourt, the composer, arranger and 2001 Grammy Award winner who will lead the ensemble.
Read MoreIn a surprise announcement released on Tuesday in Havana, USA Baseball has reported the renewal of a long suspended “international friendship series” between the American national collegiate all-stars and a similar squad composed of top-level Cuban collegiate all-stars.
Read MoreThe Central Bank of Cuba changed the rules governing the import and export of hard currency in whatever monetary units, as well as Cuban pesos (CUPs) and Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUCs).
Read MoreCuban actor Reynaldo Miravalles, 89, who lives in the United States, traveled to Cuba this week to star in the movie Esther en alguna parte, directed by Gerardo Chijona.
Read MoreLobbyists in the United States are pressing Congress to pass a law that will levy a 10 per cent “user fee” on agricultural and telephone companies, remittances and travel transactions involving Cuba.
Read MoreA US federal judge in Miami authorized Rene Gonzalez to travel to Cuba for two weeks for humanitarian reasons to visit his ailing brother. Whether Gonzalez is effectively allowed to travel still depends on permission from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Read MorePope Benedict XVI is to visit Cuba starting next Monday, and while the Vatican stresses the “pastoral” character of the three-day trip, it is also evident that the communist country has unique relations with the Roman Catholic church.
Read MoreOver 70 “Ladies in White” and supporters were arrested over the weekend in Cuba and later released, reported dpa on Monday. The detentions took place as the environment heats up before the March 26-28 visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba, putting the island in the eyeshot of the foreign media in full force.
Read MoreThe US Treasury Department has just denied a permit to Professor Alan S. Hoffman to participate in the 3rd International Course on Biomaterials, which began this past Friday at the Colegio San Geronimo in Havana.
Read MoreAn agreement delimiting maritime boundaries between Cuba and the Bahamas came into force on March 9, read a statement from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday.
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