Five former Cuban political prisoners left Spain for the United States, which will offer them legal residence in the country, the press in Madrid reported. With this group eight are the number of released dissidents who have decided on a different destination to that agreed by the island’s authorities, the Spanish government and the Catholic Church.
Read MoreCuba’s famed jazz pianist Chucho Valdes won his fifth Grammy Award on Sunday night in Los Angeles, California. Valdes and his band The Afro-Cuban Messengers competed in the Best Latin Jazz Album category with the CD Chucho’s Steps.
Read MoreChucho Valdes, Alex Cuba and Edesio Alejandro are the three Cuban artists nominated for Grammy Awards to be announced at the gala ceremony on Sunday, February 13 in Los Angeles, California.
Read MoreThe Cuban baseball league continues this weekend with a full schedule of play. Cienfuegos remains on top of the Western Division with Pinar del Rio three games back. In the East, Ciego de Avila has a slim one game lead over Granma with Guantanamo only 1.5 games out of first.
Read MoreThe more than 8,000 computers in the University of Computer Science (UCI) will soon migrate to the open-code Nova Linux 3.0 operating system, with which it will become the first educational center in Cuba to begin using exclusively free software, Abel Firvida, chief of the Nova project, affirmed.
Read MoreUruguayan writer living in Cuba Daniel Chavarría received the 2010 National Literature Prize at the International Book Fair of Cuba, being held in this capital. Chavarría, 77, is “one of those beings born to make others happy, because although I am convinced that Chavarría will perhaps not be the greatest of Cuban novelists, he is the most congenial of all,” writer Eduardo Heras León affirmed.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will soon release six political prisoners, out of which four accepted the proposal to leave the country and travel to Spain, according to the agreement with the Catholic Church and the European nation, Orlando Márquez, spokesman for the Havana Archbishopric, announced. With this group the number of prisoners released since 2010 amounts to 64.
Read MoreEduardo Diaz is the latest in a stream of political prisoners to be released in Cuba, after a major round up of 75 “dissidents” alleged to be on the US payroll back in 2003.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities seized 3,023 kilograms of drugs in 2010, less than in 2009, the majority coming from drops on the island’s coasts, the General Department of the National Revolutionary Police reported. The detection of forbidden substances also decreased on the domestic market due to the control of marijuana plantations and the illegal marketing of psychotropics, controlled drugs and LSD.
Read MoreCuba and China increased the volume of their bilateral trade in 2010, which amounted to 1.8 billion dollars, Liu Yuquin, Chinese ambassador to the island, announced. However, that figure is still below the 2.2 billion registered in 2008. The Asian country sells automobiles, buses and electric appliances to its Caribbean trade partner, which exports rum, sugar and biotechnological products.
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