Cuba will host the Pan American Engineering Convention from April 9 to 13 at the Havana Convention Center. The conference will include seminars on the environment, earthquake resistant structures, energy and vulnerability to weather-related disasters.
Read MoreDilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, will travel to Cuba on January 31, which is why the foreign minister of that South American country is currently on the island. The foreign minister is expected to meet today with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, in addition to tour the redevelopment of the western port of Mariel to assess the $800 million Brazil-funded project presently under construction.
Read MoreSpanish entrepreneur Sebastian Martinez Ferrate will be released “on humanitarian grounds” after having been held in Cuba since July 2010. Using a hidden camera in 2008, the businessman produced a report on child prostitution on the island, which was broadcast by on Spanish television.
Read MoreMariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba’s president, hopes the upcoming January 28 conference of the country’s communist party will help end the stalemate around a draft law intended to grant rights to transsexuals and homosexuals on the island.
Read MoreUruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano opened the 53rd annual Casa de las Americas Literary Awards today in the Che Guevara Hall of that Cuban cultural institution in Havana.
Read MoreAlina Fernandez, the recognized daughter of Fidel Castro, wants actor Antonio Banderas to play her father in the autobiographical film Castro’s Daughter, to be directed by Michael Radford.
Read MoreRenowned Cuban jazz composer and pianist Chucho Valdes will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 21 to kick off his latest US tour. Throughout January and February, Chucho will perform on more than 20 stages in New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California.
Read MoreA Panamanian court confirmed in their absence the sentence against Luis Posada Carriles and four other Cubans who threatened that country’s national security.
Read MorePresident Raul Castro said yesterday, after bidding farewell to visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Havana airport, that the Cuban government will comply fully with the economic program approved by the Communist Party Congress held this past April.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Construction of Cuba announced today plans for important infrastructure improvements which will include the construction of new factories for the production of building materials.
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