Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos gave an interview to The Browser.com website where he selects his favorite five books by Cuban authors. Leonardo Padura, Carlos Eire, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carlos Fuentes and Jose Lezama Lima.
Read MoreEcuadorian President Rafael Correa will travel to Cuba on Thursday to visit with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who is in Havana for chemotherapy treatment to fight cancer, reported cubadebate.cu
Read MoreCuba received more than 1.5 million tourists during the first half of 2011. The goal for the industry is to reach 2.7 million by the end of the year.
Read MoreThe fourteen-vehicle 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan with humanitarian aid for Cuba is now on the Mexican highway in route to the port city of Tampico. The group is being escorted by the Mexican Federal Police to avoid any incidents along the way.
Read MoreThroughout the entire period we will be under the influence of an anti-cyclonic zone with weak pressure gradients and whose center will be in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Due to the heating produced during the day, isolated rains could occur at the end of the afternoons, which will be more likely starting Saturday.
Read MoreThe 22nd Pastors for Peace caravan of humanitarian aid for Cuba crossed into Mexico from Texas early Wednesday afternoon, but US Customs officials “seized seven computers that were to be donated to Cuban hospitals and a veterinary clinic.”
Read MoreLuis Posada Carriles, a self confessed terrorist crusader and Cuba’s public enemy number one, is the subject of a radio documentary to be broadcast by the BBC World Service on Thursday July 21.
Read MoreBefore leaving Cuba, Humala said he hopes to see strengthened economic and cultural relations with island. He showed special interest in applying Cuba’s “Yo Si Puedo” (Yes I Can) literacy program in his country, noting “that it has shown great success in Venezuela, Bolivia and other nations.”
Read MoreA large caravan of humanitarian aid for Cuba crosses over the US-Mexico border at Reynosa on Wednesday en route to the Gulf Port City of Tampico and a boat loading for destination Havana.
Read MorePeruvian president-elect Ollanta Humala, arrived early Tuesday to Cuba for a working visit that includes meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro.
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