Eight Cuban political prisoners will be released in the next few days, seven of whom will travel to Spain according to the agreement between that country, the Catholic Church and the Cuban government, Havana Archbishopric spokesman Orlando Márquez announced. The number of released dissidents since 2010 now amounts to 85.
Read MoreAward winning Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has been chosen to receive yet another prize this week, this time from the US State Department.
Read MoreThe trial of US citizen Alan Gross began behind closed doors in Havana on Friday but you wouldn’t know it by Cuban press coverage. It is expected to continue and possibly conclude on Saturday.
Read MoreFidel Castro published part two on Friday of his warning about an imminent NATO military intervention in Libya. While not openly supporting the actions of Libyan leader Gadaffi he maintains that a foreign intervention would go against the sovereignty of the North African nation.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities expect the number of persons linked to self-employment will soon double, Idalmys Alvarez, director of employment at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, announced. Between October 2010 and last January, 113,618 persons were authorized to carry out activities in the private sector, one fifth of them in food sales.
Read MoreThe lack of sugarcane and the irregularities in the yield of the sugar mills could do away with the plans of the Cuban authorities for the current harvest, the island’s state-run press warned today. The results in 2010 of the former flourishing sugar industry were the worse in more than a century.
Read MoreForest fires in Cuba left considerable losses in 2010, the National Headquarters of the Forest Rangers Corps reported. According to the source, human actions were the principal cause of the burning of 5,000 hectares last year.
Read MoreThe trial of US citizen Alan Gross for “acts against the integrity and independence” of Cuba began Friday morning in Havana. The 61-year-old Maryland resident could face up to 20 years in prison for his part in a US government program to promote regime change in Cuba.
Read MoreHere is the cultural calendar for March 2011 put out by the Cuba Absolutely website. It includes happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, etc. in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro reaffirmed his forecasts about an “inevitable military intervention that will take place in Libya,” in one of his usual Reflections published by the island’s state-run press. Castro criticized U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for sprinkling “a great deal of fuel on the fire” and accused the United States and its European allies of wanting to take advantage of the civil war in that African country.
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