The governments of Cuba and France resumed official cooperation, after more than seven years of rupture because of the imprisonment of dissidents on the island in 2003. Both countries will concentrate their collaboration in areas such as agriculture, health, the environment, scientific research, the teaching of French and culture.
Read MoreRepresentatives of the Jewish community in Cuba denied that U.S. agent Alan Gross had collaborated with them before his detention in December 2009, reported IPS on Thursday. The relationship with the Jewish community has been one of the arguments of the defense to justify the presence on the island of Gross, whom the government accuses of distributing illegal electronic devices to dissidents backed by Washington.
Read MoreThe 32nd edition of the New Latin American Film Festival will begin today in the Cuban capital with the projection of the Mexican film Revolución, announced the webpage of the event, in which more than 500 works will be presented.
Read MoreThe Communist Party opened debate Wednesday on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and the Revolution , a process to conclude on February 28. Meetings will be held at workplaces and communities around the country, announced an editorial in the official Granma daily. “No one should be left without giving an opinion and much less prevented from expressing it,” affirms the text titled “The people are who decides.”
Read MoreThe Cuban medical services have benefited 25,000 persons from Venezuela during the last 10 years, the Cuban media affirmed after yesterday’s commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the integral health agreement between both countries. According to Pedro Llerena, director of La Pradera international healthcare centre and who heads the health program, during that time 9,500 operations and more than 300 organ transplants have been carried out.
Read MoreRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov affirmed today in the Russian capital of Moscow that inter-parliamentary cooperation between his country and Cuba surpassed the simple stage of exchange of delegations. In the new stage of contacts by specific departments, the economic issue will have top-notch attention, Riabkov said.
Read More“The Day Diplomacy Died” written and directed by Dwyer and Ruiz covers events of Spring 2003 with the dramatic story unfolding in Cuba about “Fidel Castro’s Crackdown: Jailing of 75 journalists.”
Read MoreThe process of readjustment and improvement of the Cuban economic model will impose a penal reorganization to respond to the impact of the changes in the social life of the island, Secretary of the Council of State Homero Acosta affirmed, according to press versions published today. Acosta spoke at the closing session of the 10th International Meeting of Penal Sciences, held last week in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreCuba maintains a 0.1 per cent rate of prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, which causes AIDS), the lowest in the Caribbean. Nevertheless, the epidemic continues advancing, especially among men who have sex with men, said Rosaida Ochoa, director of the National Centre for the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS.
Read MoreThe archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, held a “frank and cordial” meeting Monday in Madrid with ex-Cuban prisoners who are in Spain, a source from the Catholic Church confirmed. In a note sent by email, the Secretariat of the Archbishopric added that during the meeting Ortega reiterated that the inmates who have still not been released and wish to remain in the country “will be released in short.”
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