The world’s largest person, Sultan Kosen of Turkey is in Havana on a vacation, reported IPS on Monday. Kosen, 28, measures 2.47 meters (8.10 ft.) and also has the largest hands and feet recorded on the planet.
Read MoreA three-day international and interdisciplinary symposium entitled Cuba Futures will begin March 31 at the City University of New York. The event will draw a who’s who from the academic, policymaker, media and business world related to Cuba.
Read MoreUS citizen Alan Gross was just sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison for participating in a US-AID program seeking regime change on the island. Now it’s up to the two countries’ diplomats to come to some sort of mutually beneficial agreement that would allow the 61-year-old Maryland resident to return home.
Read MoreUS citizen Alan Gross was found guilty by a court in Havana, Cuba on Saturday for “Actions against the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the State.” Gross was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Read MoreCubans will push their clocks ahead an hour on Saturday at midnight as Daylight Savings Time 2011 begins Sunday on the island.
Read MoreCuba 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.”
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