The outstanding Cuban dancer, singer and percussionist Gregorio “El Goyo” Hernandez, one of the most popular rumberos (rumba performers) on the island, died here on Sunday at the age of 75 as a result of heart disease.
Read MoreUS inspectors gave a clean bill of health to the offshore drill rig that will be seeking to find significant Cuban oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico north of the island. The US Geological Survey sees vast oil reserves located in Cuban waters, estimated as high as 9 billion barrels.
Read MoreThe Grand Valley State Michigan University baseball squad is back in the USA after a weeklong stay in Cuba where they played three exhibition games with a Cuban university team.
Read MorePope Benedict XVI called on the Catholic Church in Cuba to “renew its evangelizing dynamism” to allow Cubans to “cope with their daily vicissitudes with strength and love.”
Read MoreManagers acknowledged that these subsidies — whose ceiling is 80,000 Cuban pesos (about $3,200 USD) — will offer some limited help but is not seen as the complete solution to the housing problems of the country.
Read MoreThe foreign ministers of Chile, Cuba and Venezuela will have their first meeting of the “troika” today in Santiago de Chile that make up the coordinating committee of the newly formed Community of Latin American and the Caribbean (CELAC).
Read MoreCesar Evora, a popular film and television actor in Cuba and a major star in Mexican telenovelas, is currently visiting the island. This past Friday, Evora met with teachers, administrators and students from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), where he graduated from its Theater Arts College in 1986.
Read MoreCuban singer-songwriter Pedro Luis Ferrer will offer a single concert at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium on March 31 as a part of a tour of the United States promoted by Somos Entertainment.
Read MoreRousseff’s trip to Havana is designed to seek an increase in bilateral exchange at a time when Cuba implements reforms that signify an opening in its economy for investment.
Read MoreAs the current Cuban Baseball League season got back underway this week, the teams that were heading their respective divisions as 2011 came to a close continued their course despite the changeover from the Mizuno 150 to the Mizuno 200 baseball.
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