Cuba demanded that the United States release more than 4.2 million dollars from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and Tuberculosis dedicated to the island, which were blocked by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of that country’s Department of the Treasury, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investments Orlando Hernández affirmed.
Read MoreThe latest commentary by Fidel Castro, written on Friday night, talks about the devastating earthquake in Japan and the continuing battle in Libya. The following is the full text of the article.
Read MoreThe renovation of the port of Mariel, to the west of the Cuban capital, will be ready in 2014, Marco Aurelio García, special advisor to the Brazilian presidency, announced. The South American nation is financing the construction of new installations and communications infrastructure in this port, with a credit of 800 million dollars. Moreover, Brazilian cooperation also includes a project for the cultivation of soya in the central province of Ciego de Avila.
Read MoreBrazil’s Petrobras oil company will not continue the search for oil in Cuban waters, Marco Aurelio García, special advisor to the Brazilian presidency, announced in statements to the press accredited on the island. However, the official pointed out, there are possibilities of cooperation in the area of lubricants.
Read MorePersonalities from 35 countries signed the Call for Peace and against foreign intervention in Libya, issued simultaneously in this capital, Caracas and Buenos Aires by the Network in Defense of Humanity, the local press reported. The document is opposed to “the mobilization of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) troops and the interventionist statements of the U.S. government and armed forces.”
Read MoreThe Cuban government will release another 10 political prisoners, among them Oscar Elías Bicet, who decided to remain on the island, the Havana Archbishopric announced. With the release of Bicet, only three of the 75 dissidents tried in 2003 remain in prison.
Read MoreThe arrival of a cold front on Friday afternoon will result in rains that are expected to continue until dawn on Saturday the 12th. The rest of the week we’ll experience good weather due to the influence of high pressures.
Read MoreA 3.5 degrees magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale was registered yesterday in the south of the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the Central Station of the National Seismological Service of Cuba reported. The quake was the second this year on the island. Since the earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, the Cuban authorities decided to increase the information coverage and preparation for a possible earthquake.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro questioned the policy of the United States and the European Union toward Libya, after on previous years President Muammar al-Gaddafi accepted disarmament and several European heads of government visited Tripoli. In one of his usual Reflections, Castro reiterated his opposition to a war in the African country and the intervention of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Read MoreCuba should increase the energy saving measures to face the oil price hike, Rafael Tenreiro, assistant director of the state-run Cuba Petróleo (CUPET) oil company, affirmed. “The international situation is of much uncertainty,” and “it is impossible to predict how much more the prices will go up,” the official said. The island produces half of the fuel it needs and the rest is imported from Venezuela at preferential prices.
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