Cuba will resume the sending of mail to the United States starting tomorrow in response “to the easing of the safety measures announced by the Transportation Security Administration” of the U.S., according to a note released today by the island’s state-run press. However, the restrictions on postal packages will be maintained, the text specified.
Read MoreCuba expects the arrival this coming summer of an oil platform from China, which will confirm the existence of crude in under the waters of the island’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico, announced Rafael Tenreyro, director of exploration of Cuba Petróleo (CUPET).
Read MoreHere is the cultural calendar for March 2011 put out by the Cuba Absolutely website. It includes happenings in music, dance, and theater and the visual arts, etc. in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreThe Cuban capital’s historic center will receive on April 13 dance professionals from 13 countries, who will participate in the 16th International Meeting of Dance in Urban Countries, reported IPS. The event, organized by Cuba’s Retazos Company, the Office of the City Historian and this city’s Theatre Center, will be take place in parks and squares in Old Havana.
Read MoreThe fourth Cuban Convention of Earth Sciences, Geosciences 2011, will start today and will be attended by specialists from a dozen countries to debate issues such as oil prospecting, mining and seismology.
Read MoreThe changes proposed by the Cuban government are “few, limited and belated,” opposition economist Oscar Espinosa Chepe affirmed in a book on the economic situation on the island, published on the Internet. According to Espinosa, the solutions presented by President Raúl Castro “are not integral” and in the majority are left halfway or are blocked by obstacles and all types of prohibitions.
Read MoreThe export of vegetable coal to Europe will increase this year to 20,000 tons from the central province of Ciego de Avila, the largest amount in the last five years, reported IPS. That non-traditional production also favors the cleaning of the fields infested with the marabou bush weed.
Read MoreEx-president James Carter said he would report to the Obama administration on his recent three day trip to Cuba. Now he issued a public report on his time in Havana as a guest of the Cuban government. The following is the complete report as published on the Carter Center website.
Read MoreAt least two government officials in the central province of Sancti Spíritus will be tried for abuse of power and embezzlement of state resources, which made Diana María Companioni resign from her post as president of the province’s government.
Read MoreThe final arguments in the trial against self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Cariiles are expected to be presented in the next few days, before the jury begins its deliberations on the case, reported IPS. This stage of the proceedings has already lasted 13 weeks, during which more than 30 persons have testified.
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