The first seven townships founded by the Spanish colonizers in Cuba will work jointly to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Baracoa, the island’s first township, which will be commemorated in August 2011, announced Alejandro Hartmann, historian of that eastern city.
Read MoreThe United States half-century economic blockade on Cuba got another resounding rebuff on Tuesday at the United Nations by a record 187-2 vote. Only Israel supported Washington’s position with all other US allies telling the Obama administration that enough’s enough on its attempted stranglehold on Cuba.
Read MoreCuba has just shut out host Chinese Taipei 2-0 in the Intercontinental Baseball Cup Play after a similar feat on Tuesday 3-0 over South Korea. After the win over Taipei, Cuba’s pitchers have not allowed a run in the team’s first three games while the batters have produced 23.
Read MoreCuba will begin before this year closes the marketing of Vidatox, a medicine produced based on the blue scorpion (Rophalorous Junceus) venom, which has analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties, sources from the Biological Pharmaceutical Laboratories (LABIOFAM) announced. This therapy against cancer has been already used with positive results on around 14,000 persons.
Read MoreCuba’s work in natural disaster mitigation and its experiences in the conservation of human lives and material goods is a regional referent, María de Jesús Izquierdo, specialist in disaster reduction for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said in statements during the Workshop of the Project for the Strengthening of Local Capacity in the Management for Risk Reduction, held in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
Read MoreThe UN General Assembly will vote Wednesday on the resolution “Need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba,” presented by the island for the 19th time. In 2009, the vote passed 187-3 with only Israel and Palau supporting the United States in its half century attempt to bring down the Cuban government through imposing economic suffering on its country’s people.
Read MoreJuly Gross, wife of US agent Alan Gross, asked Cuban President Raúl Castro to release her husband, detained on the island since December 2009, to care for their daughter diagnosed with cancer last August. Gross also criticized President Barack Obama for not having shown an interest in the case. The employee of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is accused by the Cuban authorities of carrying out espionage work.
Read MoreCuba began the experimental application of irrigation with central pivot in rice cultivation, a technique that would imply saving more than 60 per cent water, in addition to using less seeds, specialists from the Rice Agro-Industrial Group and the Grain Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture announced. That experience has been successfully used in countries such as Brazil, Panama and Spain. Rice is a basic dish in the diet of Cuban families.
Read MoreVenezuela’s programme for the general care of diabetic patients will start applying the Cuban medicine Heberprot-P, of proven effectiveness in the cure of diabetic foot ulcers, the local press reported. That medicine, which has already benefitted more than 18,000 patients on the island, was created by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre (CIGB).
Read MoreThe European Union (EU) should give a sign to the Cuban government about its will to establish a new relationship with the island, even if it maintains the Common Position in force since 1996, Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez affirmed in statements to the press in Luxembourg, where this regional bloc’s ties with the Caribbean island nation will be assessed. Jiménez was of the opinion that this gesture by the EU could strengthen the present reforms in the socialist system nation.
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