Self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles considered that his “knowledge about U.S. interventions in Latin America” will protect him from being sentenced in the trial against him begun yesterday in the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. Posada considers that because of this the White House will prevent his being imprisoned for a long period.
Read MorePope Benedict XVI addressed the Cuban government “so that the dialogue that has happily been established with the Church be strengthened and expanded,” in statements to the diplomatic corps accredited in the Holy See. In 2010, thanks to the mediation of the Catholic Church and the Spanish government, 40 of the 52 political prisoners who still remained imprisoned since 2003 were released.
Read MoreCuba’s health authorities will begin selling a lung cancer therapeutic vaccine produced by the island’s Centre of Molecular Immunology, said Gisela González, head of the team that created this drug capable of controlling the advance of the disease.
Read MoreAlan Gross has been in prison in Cuba for 13 months for allegedly distributing illegal electronic equipment as an employee of Development Alternatives a company that works under contract for the US government in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
Read MoreBy Circles Robinson HAVANA TIMES, Jan. 10 — Luis Posada Carriles, Cuba’s public enemy number one, goes on trial in
Read MoreCuba will import black and blond tobacco, as well as rice, from Ecuador, among other products that traditionally did not form part of the bilateral trade exchange, the Foreign Ministry of the Andean nation reported. Both countries signed an economic protocol that establishes tariff preferences for hundreds of products.
Read MorePosada, a hero of the militant Miami based Cuban exile groups, is not being charged with his acknowledged role in blowing up a Cuban passenger plane that killed all 73 on board in 1976 or explosions at Havana hotels in the 1990s, only for providing false information to US immigration authorities when he snuck into the country in 2005 following his release from a Panamanian prison.
Read MoreThe tendency towards a decrease in Cuba of the fertility (children per woman) and reproduction (daughters per woman) global rates continued in 2010, according to last year’s Economic and Social Panorama, published by the National Office of Statistics. Those indicators are essential in evaluating the process of population aging on the island.
Read MoreAgricultural products with the greatest demand in Cuba suffered a notable drop in 2010, especially potatoes, beans and rice, regulars in meals of families on the island, notes last year’s Economic and Social Panorama, published by the National Office of Statistics. Although in general fruit, tubers and cereal production grew, the balance compared to 2009 was unfavorable in garden vegetables, leguminous plants and citrus.
Read MoreHere is the cultural calendar for January 2011. The calendar put out by the Cuba Absolutely website includes happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts in the Cuban capital.
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