The defence of self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles asked judge Kathleen Cardone to reject the presentation of evidence linking the accused with the attacks against hotel installations in Cuba in 1997, causing the death of Italian Fabio di Celmo. Posada will appear before court in the United States next January 10 to answer for migration crimes.
Read MoreFidel Castro lectured Cuban university students on Wednesday. The former president and still leader of the Cuban Communist Party supported the economic measures being taken by the government of his brother President Raul Castro. He also continued to warn on the international front of the need to eliminate nuclear weapons, the challenges posed by world population growth and what he called the United States attempts “to ruin China.”
Read MoreThe ability of most Cubans to buy building materials at market prices and whether the government stores can meet demand are two of the big questions posed by the wage earning population.
Read MoreCuba “deserves the backing of Latin America and of the entire region so that by respecting its culture, its political system, its people can move forward,” Juan Carlos Varela, vice president and foreign minister of Panama, affirmed in statements to the press at the start of the talks with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez. Varela travelled to the island to strengthen bilateral cooperation and explore possibilities in areas such as tourism, health and the hotel and pharmaceutical industries.
Read MoreCuban agricultural authorities are creating farms throughout the island to recover the production of fruit, a crop that has been depressed for many years due to neglect, lack of incentives for producers and lack of seed banks.
Read MoreRussia’s Gazprom Neft Oil Company acquired 30 per cent of a project operated by Malaysia’s Petronas Oil Company for the exploration in four blocks of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cuba in the Gulf of Mexico, announced Alexander Dyukov, director of that state-run entity.
Read MoreThe Cuban government began the second stage of the National Seminar to prepare cadres and specialists on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines proposed for the next Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), to be held in the second half of April 2011, reported IPS. The island’s authorities say they will later call for debates in grassroots organizations of the Party and the Young Communist League (UJC), as well as in the communities.
Read MoreJurists from around 20 countries will analyze the case of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States charged with conspiracy to commit espionage, during the 10th International Meeting of Penal Sciences, which will begin next November 23 in the Cuban capital, Miguel Angel García, coordinator of the event’s Organizing Committee, announced. The island’s authorities consider the Cuban Five as heroes of the fight against terrorism and demand that US President Barack Obama order their release.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro will speak today to university students in a message that will be broadcast on the Mesa Redonda program of the island’s state-run television. The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution spoke last September 3 to a crowd of students on the steps of the University of Havana, whom he lectured on the need to avoid a nuclear war,
Read MoreCuban blogger Yoani Sanchez is back in the news after winning another award, this time the 40,000 Euros Freedom Award from the conservative Danish think tank CEPOS.
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