Two of the lead actors in the Cuban Film “Una Noche” abandoned their planned tour in the US as soon as they landed for a stopover in Miami. Cubans who touch US soil have an automatic fast track to permanent residency under the Cuban Adjustment Act.
Read MoreHans Zehetmair, the president of the Hans Seidel German Political Foundation, is on the island to diversify that organization’s ties of cooperation with the island, reported the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry this weekend.
Read MoreActor and director Hassane Kouyate of Burkino Faso will be in Havana starting today for the international “Owners of the Word” festival, which will also include oral storytellers from Haiti and Cuba.
Read MoreThe Eighth International Conference on Agricultural Law begins today in Havana and is dedicated to “cooperatives as an engine of social development.”
Read MoreCuba and Honduras are negotiating a new date for the signing of a maritime delimitation agreement between the two countries, it was revealed on Sunday after statements by the undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Mireya Aguero.
Read MoreThe first playoff game of the 2011-2012 Cuban Baseball League will be held today in Havana’s Latin American Stadium with the clash between the host Industriales and Cienfuegos teams.
Read MoreOpposition activist and former political prisoner Jose Daniel Ferrer began a hunger strike on Monday after having spent three weeks in custody without the Cuban authorities formally charging him.
Read MoreBetween 40 and 45 percent of economic activity in Cuba will shift to the non-state sector in the next five years, predicted Esteban Lazo, a vice president of the Cuban Council of State.
Read MoreVenezuelan president Hugo Chavez came out of 10 days of seclusion on Monday for a press conference in Havana that refuted some media claims of his possible death.
Read MoreGranma’s Alfredo Despaigne took back sole position of the league record with his 36th smash of the campaign, on an inside-the-park homer Sunday afternoon in his second-to-last at-bat of the season.
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