The mayor of Managua, Daysi Torres, thanked Cuba for its medical cooperation in the area of ophthalmology, which enabled more than 75,000 surgical operations since the start of Operation Miracle in 2007, in a ceremony held in that city. That initiative, coordinated by Cuba and Venezuela, provides free ophthalmological care to low-income persons.
Read MoreCuban dissident Oscar Elías Biscet demanded the resignation of President Raúl Castro with the aim of establishing a transition government, in his first press conference after being released last Friday. Biscet, who rejected travelling to Spain, also asked for the release of another three dissidents of the Group of 75 sentenced in 2003.
Read MoreIt is inadmissible that there are still idle lands in cities and towns in Cuba, 14 years after the start of the urban agriculture program, Adolfo Rodríguez Nodals, head of the Urban and Suburban Agriculture Movement on the island, affirmed. The Cuban authorities are trying to increase the production of food, 80 per cent of which has to be imported.
Read MoreIf prices remain steady, the move will increase the buying power of tourists visiting Cuba as well as that of Cubans receiving remittances from abroad.
Read MoreThe general director of the European Commission for the Americas, Christian Leffler, will meet next Friday in Madrid with released Cuban opposition members, with the aim of consulting them on the renewal of the European Union (EU) policy toward the island. It is expected that the dissidents will be against any relaxation of the policy until the Raúl Castro government carries out political and legal reforms.
Read MoreThe 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.
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