Cuba’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.
Read MoreCuban citizen Enrique Arias has been confined to the Juan Santamaria International Airport for the past 50 days, awaiting the settlement of a refugee claim.
Read MoreAustrian Hermann Nitsch will present his work “135 Aktion” on May 14 in the Cuban capital during the 11th Bienal de La Habana arts festival, according to an announcement made yesterday at a press conference hosted by the artist at the Superior Institute of Art.
Read MoreA delegation of the Cuban government led by Noel Vazquez Perez, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment. This is an unprecedented event ever since the Asian country severed ties with the island after the island’s revolutionary victory in 1959.
Read MoreCuba’s top diplomat in Washington, Jorge Bolaños, proposed an exchange of the “Cuban Five,” who are imprisoned in the United States, for the freedom of US citizen Alan Gross, who is being held in Cuba.
Read MoreSome rain is expected for Thursday and Friday due to the passage of a frontal system to the north of the island. In addition, there will be some showers on Tuesday and Wednesday due to daytime heating. The remainder of the period we will have partly cloudy skies.
Read MoreThe large Dutch bank ING is reportedly ready to come to an arrangement with the US authorities over its alleged breach of the half century US trade embargo against Cuba.
Read MoreThe fifth annual “Cuban Day Against Homophobia” began on Tuesday with a press conference at the offices of Havana’s National Center for Sex Education (CENSEX), which is directed by Mariela Castro, the daughter of the country’s president.
Read MoreThe eleventh “Bienal de La Habana” arts festival, which opens on Friday and will run through June 11, is involving 180 artists from 43 countries. In addition, hundreds of thousands of art lovers are expected to turn out – including more than 1,000 US citizens.
Read MoreThe 32nd international tourism fair — “FITCuba 2012” — opened on Tuesday on the Santa Maria Key beach resort located in the center-north of the island.
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