The Ladies in White, wives and relatives of political prisoners in Cuba, will march next March 18 on the eighth anniversary of the arrest of 75 dissidents if the government does not release before then the three dissidents who are still in prison, announced Laura Pollán, the group’s spokeswoman.
Read MoreWhen Gross was arrested in Cuba in Dec. 2009, he was working for a Maryland firm, Development Alternatives, as a subcontractor on a US Agency for International Development (USAID) program to “promote democracy” in Cuba.
Read MoreThe Travel and Adventure Show has a new participant on its nationwide tour this year: The Cuba/US People-to-People Partnership, whose information booth is supplying eager soon-to-be visitors to the island with the information they need to make their trip fit the new “purposeful travel” opportunities announced by President Obama last month.
Read MoreThe US Dollar buys more as of Monday in Cuba with the 8 percent devaluation of the Cuban hard currency (CUC). The announcement came from the Central Bank of Cuba. See the full HT news article.
Read MoreThe Central Bank of Cuba has devaluated the island’s hard currency, the Cuban Covertible Peso or CUC, by 8 percent as of Monday against all foreign currencies.
Read MoreThe world’s largest person, Sultan Kosen of Turkey is in Havana on a vacation, reported IPS on Monday. Kosen, 28, measures 2.47 meters (8.10 ft.) and also has the largest hands and feet recorded on the planet.
Read MoreA three-day international and interdisciplinary symposium entitled Cuba Futures will begin March 31 at the City University of New York. The event will draw a who’s who from the academic, policymaker, media and business world related to Cuba.
Read MoreUS citizen Alan Gross was just sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison for participating in a US-AID program seeking regime change on the island. Now it’s up to the two countries’ diplomats to come to some sort of mutually beneficial agreement that would allow the 61-year-old Maryland resident to return home.
Read MoreUS citizen Alan Gross was found guilty by a court in Havana, Cuba on Saturday for “Actions against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State.” Gross was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Read MoreCubans will push their clocks ahead an hour on Saturday at midnight as Daylight Savings Time 2011 begins Sunday on the island.
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