With the start of operations of the XL Airways France airline, flying from Paris to Varadero, the weekly flights between France and Cuba now amount to nine. That company hopes to bring at least 160 tourists on each trip through April 2011.
Read MoreCuba will not have a “small shop economy,” Cuban Minister of Economy and Planning Marino Murillo affirmed. He reiterated the government’s will to maintain the predominant role of the socialist state enterprise, despite the expansion of the private sector. The minister, in statements to parliament, insisted on the need to give greater autonomy to state enterprises and eliminate the subsidies to entities with losses.
Read MoreThe following is a summary of the weather forecast for the week of December 16-22 in Havana. There will be an influence of continental high pressures that will move toward the east, making us expect maximum temperatures to fluctuate between the 19° and 24°C and minimum temperatures between the 12° and the 17°C.
Read MoreCuban President Raúl Castro headed Wednesday the start of sessions of the Cuban parliament, which will discuss the economic reforms proposed to be approved at the next congress of the ruling Communist Party.
Read MoreA total of 31 meteorological stations in Cuba registered record minimum temperatures early Wednesday for the month of December, said the Cuban Meteorology Institute. The marked descent is due to a “continental mass of dry and cold Arctic air” that will extend to the entire island.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and Greece decided to renew official cooperation on political and economic issues, according to an agreement signed in this capital by Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis and his Cuban counterpart Dagoberto Rodríguez, the accredited press on the island reported. Greece is the third European Union country, after Spain and France, to resume these links with the Caribbean nation.
Read MoreExtreme weather conditions and the crew’s mistakes in facing those circumstances were the principal causes of the crash of the ATR-72 aircraft of the Cuban Aerocaribbean Airline last November 4, which caused the death of 68 persons, the Cuban Institute of Civil Aeronautics informed Thursday. The report says the aircraft was in good technical condition.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro backed the work of declassification of documents undertaken by Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks, who morally has made the United States “get down on its knees,” in one of his usual “Reflections” published by the island’s state-run press. Castro held the “Swedish right-wing government and the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) warmongering mafia” accountable if in the end “the truth about the cynical policy of the United States and its allies” is not known.
Read MoreThe director of Hollywood exhibitions and special events, Ellen Harrington, said she was in favor of “continuing to dialogue and opening up ourselves to art” and expressed her hope that “in the future there be more exchanges” between Cuba and the United States, in statements she made at the Havana Film Festival, that concluded Sunday in the island’s capital.
Read MoreThe International Baseball Federation (IBAF) is interested in expanding to 28 the number of countries participating in the World Baseball Classic, an event held every three years and sponsored by the U.S. Major League, affirmed in this capital Ricardo Fraccari, president of that organization. The event, which emerged because of the desire to again include baseball in the Olympic Games, has been attended in its first editions by Cuba.
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