Cuba will continue into the future as a one-party socialist system, according to the address by President Raul Castro at the closing of the Cuban Communist Party’s (PCC) National Conference held this weekend in Havana.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro on Sunday ratified the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) monopoly as the only legal political organization on the island. The idea of a single party is a concept that the current Cuban leadership will never give up, he said at the close of a two-day party conference.
Read MoreArgentinean writers picked up three literary laurels and two honorable mentions yesterday, while awards were also presented to authors from Haiti, Cuba, Brazil and the United States at the Casa de las Americas in Havana.
Read MoreHigh level authorities from Cuba and Belarus met in Havana this month to increase cooperation in information technology, transmission and communications to apply tighter controls on the Internet.
Read MorePedro Anibal Riera Escalante, who is former diplomat and a retired Cuban intelligence officer, managed to travel to Spain this past December, reported the Café Fuerte website today.
Read MoreThe Vatican Museum has brought to Havana a lectern or missal which belonged to the chaplain of Christopher Columbus. The item constitutes the oldest example of indigenous Christian art in the New World.
Read MoreCuban 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.
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