The maximum temperatures in Havana will fluctuate between 26°C (79°F) and 29°C (84°F), and the minimum temperatures will drop to around 18°C (64°F). Occasional rainfall is predicted for Thursday and Friday and then again on Monday.
Read MoreIn March there will be rains close to or below the historic average in Cuba, which could intensify the crisis in the distribution of water in the island’s capital, notes the Climate Center of the Institute of Meteorology. The lack of precipitation is due to the presence of the La Niña or Aenos phenomenon, which cools the surface water of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Read MoreCuba’s government again increased the price of gasoline and diesel by between four and eight per cent. This is the second hike in six months, after last September the Ministry of Finance and Prices responded to the rise in oil prices on the international market with another increase.
Read MoreThe objective of the lifting of restrictions on travel to Cuba and the sending of remittances to the island is not to please the Raul Castro government, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton affirmed in a hearing of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Relations Committee. Clinton reiterated Washington’s commitment to back the Cuban dissidence with some 20 million dollars.
Read MoreFive members of the National Ballet of Cuba left the company after a performance in the city of Montreal, Canada, The Montreal Gazette daily reported. One of the dancers, young Elier Bourzac, said to the press that he wished to incursion into other dance styles and work with international choreographers.
Read MoreCuba categorically opposes any foreign military intervention in Libya said Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on Tuesday at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Read MoreCuban dissident Diosdado González affirmed that he will continue his political activities against the island’s government, after having been released from prison by an agreement between the authorities and the Catholic Church. González refused to leave the Caribbean country to travel to Spain, like the majority of the dissidents released since 2010.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that the program to lay off 500,000 public sector workers by the end of March was not progressing on schedule.
Read MoreCuban President Raúl Castro met with Miguel Angel Moratinos, former Spanish foreign minister and deputy of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE). Moratinos and Castro analyzed issues about the international situation, especially the food crisis. The former Spanish foreign minister was one of the principal promoters of the normalization of European Union-Cuban relations.
Read MoreAround a hundred persons harassed the Ladies in White, a group of wives and relatives of political prisoners in Cuba, after a documentary on the infiltration by state security agents in the ranks of the opposition was broadcast last Saturday on the state-run television.
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