With Arizona residents still reeling from Saturday’s massacre at a Tucson supermarket, former Cuban President Fidel Castro wrote an op-ed piece from Havana condemning the violence saying “any sane person could ask the question whether the act occurred in Afghanistan or Arizona.”
Read MoreU.S. and Cuban representatives will meet next Jan. 12 in the Cuban capital for the fourth round of bilateral migration talks, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America Arturo Valenzuela announced. The two countries resumed that dialogue after President Barack Obama got to the White House.
Read MoreThe Cuban Cycling Federation decided to call off the Cycling Tour of Cuba this year as part of the “necessary reorganization in the plan of national and international competitions,” announced by the island’s sports authorities, according to the government’s cuts in spending, José Peláez, president of that entity, announced.
Read MoreThe Cohiba Behike BHK 52 cigar brand, produced in the Havana factory of El Laguito, was declared the best in the world by the specialized Cigar Aficionado magazine, which described 2010 as the best year for Cuban cigars because of their excellent quality.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities have received more than 83,000 license applications for self-employment since the opening to the private sector decreed by the government late last October, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced. The measure is an attempt to absorb part of the half million persons who will be laid off until next March.
Read MoreBy Circles Robinson HAVANA TIMES, Jan. 7 — A new shake up has occurred in the key Cuban government ministries
Read MoreHAVANA TIMES, Jan. 6 — A video published on the Youtube platform, which reconstructs the air accident that occurred last
Read MoreCuban critic and essayist Rufo Caballero died Wednesday in the Cuban capital due to a heart attack at the age of 45.. A full professor of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, Caballero dedicated the major part of his work to cinema critique, for which he was given recognitions such as the Ibero-American and Caribbean Cinema Essay Award, and the Cuban National Cinema Critique Prize.
Read MoreCuba joined the activities for the International Year of Afro Descendants, with the opening of the Afro-American Social and Cultural Anthropology Workshop in the historic centre of the island’s capital. The event will continue today with the traditional parade of the Day of the Magi, by the Cabildo Kuisikuaba, the Alacrán Group and the JJ Traditional Dances Company.
Read MoreThe Cuba Ron S.A. company brought out a new brand of rum, Caney 12 years, produced in the factory of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, rum master Tranquilino Placencia announced. According to the expert, all of the production of 2011 is already under contract.
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