The time has come to begin our Cuba Photo Contest for the year 2012. This is the fourth such contest, one for each year of our publication. The deadline for submitting photos is September 15, 2012. All finalists and semifinalists’ photos will be published and prominently displayed by HT.
Read MoreFidel Castro is scheduled to meet on Wednesday in Havana with Pope Benedict XVI, who already met on Tuesday with President Raul Castro. The Pope will also officiate an open-air mass in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution on Wednesday morning programmed for 9:00 a.m.
Read MoreMarino Murillo, a vice president of Cuba’s Council of Ministers and charged with overseeing the implementation of President Raul Castro’s economic reforms, told the local and foreign press not to expect any political reforms from the government.
Read MoreCuba has begun organizing its first festival dedicated to the protection of sea turtles. The event will be held in mid-May in the La Coloma fishing community in the western province of Pinar del Rio.
Read MoreIn his welcoming remarks to the Pope, the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Dionisio Garcia, rejected foreign interference on the island as well as internal intolerance.
Read MoreDr. Margaret Chan addressed an internal meeting today in Havana of the global policy group of the World Health Organization (WHO), the organization she chairs.
Read MorePope Benedict XVI on Monday called on Cubans “to build a renewed and open society,” on the first day of his much-anticipated visit to the Caribbean nation. An estimated 100,000 people, many of them waving white handkerchiefs, gathered for mass at the Santiago de Cuba Revolution Square.
Read MoreAlready eliminated from qualifying for the London Olympics, the Cuban soccer squad pulled off a major surprise on Monday, managing to tie Canada 1-1 with a goal at minute 91 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Read MoreThe Cubarte network, one of the governmental institutions charged with providing access to the Intranet, Internet and email on the island, reported today that its users are experiencing difficulties with Internet browsing that will continue throughout the visit of Pope Benedict XVI (March 26-28).
Read MoreA spectacle of lights and colors in the Havana Cathedral will add to the welcome for Pope Benedict XVI, said the Office of the Historian of the City.
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