During one of the activities of Cuba’s “Day Against Homophobia,” Mariela Castro said on Saturday that Raul Castro supports gay rights, including the legalization of same-sex marriages. Mariela has praised US President Obama for his public stand favoring homosexual marriage.
Read MoreThe US Coast Guard repatriated 55 Cubans and 37 Haitians who were intercepted at sea on their way to South Florida, said US authorities over the weekend.
Read MoreThe Cuban Men’s Volleyball team continues to struggle in its bid to return to the Olympic Games. After finishing third in the NORCECA event, the Cubans have one more chance to try to qualify for London 2012 if they attend a qualifying tournament in Germany on June 8-10.
Read MorePresident Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela on Friday night after concluding the last in a series of radiotherapy treatments in Cuba in his fight against cancer. He had traveled to Havana on April 30th.
Read MoreAlan Gross’s chances of returning to the United States from Cuba before 2024, took another backslide on Friday with the US State Dept. saying it refuses to negotiate with Havana for the release of the Maryland resident and five Cubans imprisoned for over 13 years in the US.
Read MoreNearly 200 Cuban emigrants who tried to reach the US through Mexico began a hunger strike inside the detention facility in Chiapas, which is near the border with Guatemala, CNN-Mexico reported yesterday.
Read MoreThe Sixth International Meeting on Justice and Law, being held at the Havana Convention Center, will host more than 500 delegates from 14 nations from May 23 to 25.
Read MoreMusicians with the New York Youth Symphony and the Spivakov Foundation in Moscow gave a concert in Havana as part of the artistic and educational initiative of the visiting “Ship of Tolerance.”
Read MoreThe political opposition figure Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, 41, was released by authorities on Thursday after being held for more than 24 hours without his whereabouts being made known, according to a Twitter report by Luis Enrique, the brother of the former political prisoner from the 2003 roundup of 75 dissidents.
Read MoreCuba’s “Critical Observatory Network” announced that it will join in the global mobilization called by social movements around the world set for this coming Saturday, May 12 to mark the first anniversary of catalytic “15-M” protests in Spain.
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