“Cuba’s hour is not for revolutions…rather for gradual and peaceful reforms,” Arturo López-Levy, a Cuban academic resident in the United States, affirmed in response to an opinion panel organized by the Cubaencuentro digital magazine.
Read MoreThe coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), Juan José Rabilero, was dismissed from his post in a Plenum of the National Leadership. The CDRs, the island’s largest mass organization, are made up by all virtually all persons older than 14 who contribute to sanitation, vigilance, health promotion and ideological preparation activities in the barrios, reported IPS. The new coordinator is 46-year-old Carlos Rafael Miranda Martínez.
Read MoreCuba and India will strengthen their collaboration in the area of natural medicine, as a result of the visit to that Asian country by Concepción Campa, director of the Finlay Institute, who toured several research centers related to practices such as yoga and homeopathy. In a lecture at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India, Campa highlighted the advances made by the island in biotechnology, especially in the production of vaccines.
Read MoreCuba saved more than 10 million dollars in 2010 from the retreading of tires, Iris Carrazana González, economic director of the National Tire Company, announced. According to the specialist, the island hopes to increase this year its industrial capacities in this sector, to reach some 135,000 tires.
Read MoreWe will be able to enjoy good weather with little chance of rain this whole week. This is due to the presence of high pressures, which will remain over this period.
Read MoreThe Cuban tax office know as the ONAT, is carrying out a campaign to get taxpayers to pay up on time instead of falling behind and risking penalties. Ana Evora a specialist at ONAT said that as in previous years, personal income taxes should be paid up by March 1. She noted that those persons who became self-employed in the last four months of 2010 will have a one-time exemption from filing.
Read MoreCuban-American senators Bob Menendez and Marc Rubio presented an amendment that would block any flight from the United States to the island or any other country considered a sponsor of terrorism, according to the list drawn up by Washington. In January, President Barack Obama lifted a group of restrictions to facilitate “people-to-people” contacts between the two countries.
Read MoreThe policy of dialogue toward Cuba is the only one that works in the European Union’s relations with the island, contrary to blockade and isolation, Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez said in statements before the Spanish Congress of Deputies. Jiménez underlined the importance of “being present in the process of reforms” begun in the Caribbean country.
Read MoreThe United States should take Cuba off the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, while the island’s authorities could release contractor Alan Gross, to facilitate the rapprochement between the two nations, former governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson affirmed in statements at the Brookings Institute in Washington.
Read MoreThe Young Filmmakers Exhibit of the Cuban Institute of Cinema Arts and Industry (ICAIC) will take place February 22-27 in the Cuban capital, announced filmmaker Fernando Pérez, president of the event, in which 17 works of fiction, 24 documentaries and 21 animated cartoons will compete. Perez said: “Not only do we wish to give each one the voice and the opportunity to exhibit their works, but also that they be the ones who participate in each of the details of the organization and holding of the event.”
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