Cuba, like many underdeveloped nations, loses a number of professionals and athletes each year. Many emigrate in search of improving their economic situation or for family or emotional reasons. Some leave legally while others take the illegal route.
Read MoreForty-three per cent of Cubans are obese or overweight, Jorge Pablo Alfonso Guerra, president of the Cuban Society of Nephrology, said when presenting his book on obesity in the central city of Sancti Spíritus.
Read MoreBaseballdecuba.com has published the full calendar for the upcoming Cuban baseball season that gets underway on November 28th with a game between last season’s champ Industriales and runner-up Villa Clara.
Read MoreRussia could become a major market for Cuban cigars, Gonzalo Fernández, assistant director of Marketing Operations of the Habanos S.A. company, said in statements to the press in Moscow, during the Havana Cigar Festival held in the Russian capital.
Read MoreCuba expects to produce five million nine-liter rum boxes by 2015, said Ernesto Castresana, director of the San José de las Lajas Rum Factory, located south of the Cuban capital. This factory produces several lines of Havana Club, considered one of the best light rums in the world.
Read MoreThe defence of self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles asked judge Kathleen Cardone to reject the presentation of evidence linking the accused with the attacks against hotel installations in Cuba in 1997, causing the death of Italian Fabio di Celmo. Posada will appear before court in the United States next January 10 to answer for migration crimes.
Read MoreFidel Castro lectured Cuban university students on Wednesday. The former president and still leader of the Cuban Communist Party supported the economic measures being taken by the government of his brother President Raul Castro. He also continued to warn on the international front of the need to eliminate nuclear weapons, the challenges posed by world population growth and what he called the United States attempts “to ruin China.”
Read MoreThe ability of most Cubans to buy building materials at market prices and whether the government stores can meet demand are two of the big questions posed by the wage earning population.
Read MoreCuba “deserves the backing of Latin America and of the entire region so that by respecting its culture, its political system, its people can move forward,” Juan Carlos Varela, vice president and foreign minister of Panama, affirmed in statements to the press at the start of the talks with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez. Varela travelled to the island to strengthen bilateral cooperation and explore possibilities in areas such as tourism, health and the hotel and pharmaceutical industries.
Read MoreCuban agricultural authorities are creating farms throughout the island to recover the production of fruit, a crop that has been depressed for many years due to neglect, lack of incentives for producers and lack of seed banks.
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