Human Rights Watch has issued its World Report 2011 discussing what its researchers consider the status of human rights in countries around the world. Cuba and the United States, whose governments routinely criticize each other’s human rights record, are two of the countries where the types of violations are detailed.
Read MoreCorruption is generalized in Cuban society and affects the representatives of the State as well as persons who need to bribe or steal to survive, according to several cables from the U.S. Interests Section dated between 2005 and 2009 released by WikiLeaks. These practices have also spread to getting jobs in emerging sectors such as tourism and even in some medical services.
Read MoreA lack of foresight in the purchase of spare parts for harvesters and problems in the contracting of productions affect the recovery of the rice sector in Cuba, Minister of Agriculture Gustavo Rodríguez recognized in a meeting of cooperatives held in the eastern city of Bayamo.
Read MoreThe Cuban Catholic Church will not challenge the island’s government in order to maintain its spaces for cult, be able to renovate its installations and increase the number of nuns and priests, according to the conclusions of Michael Parmly and Jonathan Farrar, the two heads of the U.S. Interests Section in this capital, revealed by WikiLeaks.
Read MoreNegligence and corruption related charges were alleged to be the leading causes in the death last year of 26 patients at the main Havana Psychiatric Hospital revealed the trial that took place between January 17-22, notes the Cuban press on Monday.
Read MoreCuba is now six months away from considerably faster telecommunications and Internet capability as the undersea cable link from Venezuela began to be laid on Saturday. The long awaited project will provide 3,000 times greater capability, says the Cuban government. It is still unclear what the greater capability will mean for ordinary Cubans who would like to have Internet service. That decision and the cost will be determined at a later date by the Cuban government. Presently only a select number of Cubans are able to surf the web.
Read MoreCuban students who aspire to enroll in universities will have to pass the exams with a minimum of 60 points, double the amount previously accepted, René Sánchez, Ministry of Higher Education director of enrollment and job placements, announced. Spanish, mathematics and history tests are required to have access to university careers on the island.
Read MoreMail service from Cuba to the United States has returned to the old icy Cold War status after a brief lapse of exchange over the last year. Once again, it is Cuban families with relatives on both sides of the Florida Straits that will most suffer the consequences.
Read MoreCuba will present more than 2,000 titles during the next Book Fair, which will begin Feb. 10 in this capital. The new books include the ALBA Bicentennial collection, dedicated to commemorating two centuries of Latin American independence.
Read MoreThe Cuban government increased the temporary detentions of dissidents in 2010 to face up to the political opposition on the island, instead of carrying out prolonged detentions and trials, according to the annual report of the opposition Council of Human Rights Rapporteurs in Cuba.
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