The Cuban government revealed the identity of two state security agents infiltrated inside dissident groups, to demonstrate the links between the dissidence, the United States and the Cuban exile in the U.S., in a documentary premiered on the island’s state-run television. The Caribbean nation’s authorities refuse to recognize the political opposition, since they consider its members as mercenaries in the pay of Washington.
Read MoreWith four teams qualifying for the post season, Industriales, which lost all six of its games last week, finds itself in fifth place 11.5 games out of first and 5.5 behind Sancti Spiritus.
Read MoreThe XIII Habano Cigar Festival came to a close late Friday with an auction of custom made humidors and top grade cigars that brought in US $1.1 million for Cuba’s Public Health system.
Read MoreThe Canadian corporation Sherritt International expects a reduction in its productions of oil, nickel, cobalt and electricity in Cuba in 2011, despite the increase in its profits in 2010, when it registered a net income of 222.4 million dollars, according to the U.S. news site Cuba Standard.
Read MoreThe Cuban government is against a military humanitarian intervention in Libya “because, instead of resolving the situation, it would further complicate it and could have other serious implications,” affirmed Rodolfo Reyes, the island’s permanent representative to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro and Brazilian theologian and author Frei Betto met in Havana for several hours on Friday afternoon. A short press note states that Castro and Betto, discussed “international topics of mutual interest including the situation in Libya.”
Read MoreA new group of 30 doctors, nurses and technicians arrived in Haiti this week as part of the Cuba’s medical aid mission to the neighboring Caribbean country that is already over 1,300 strong.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities will extend to the entire country a study carried out in the province of Mayabeque, southeast of Havana, to control the distribution of milk, affected by problems in the quality of the product, transportation and conservation. More than 70 per cent of the milk in the country comes from the cooperative and farmer sector.
Read MoreThe U.S. government expects that agent Alan Gross will get a fair trial in Cuba and that he will be allowed to return home, since he has not committed any crime, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley affirmed on Thursday.
Read MoreThe Maryland resident faces up to 20 years in prison for “acts against the independence and territorial integrity” of Cuba.
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