President Raul Castro met in Havana on Saturday with Brazil’s Foreign Minister Celso Amorim who is on a working visit to Cuba. Amorim delivered a letter to Castro from Brazilian President Lula da Silva, however the contents were not made public.
Read MoreCuba’s singer/songwriter Silvio Rodriguez opened the Voices for Juarez concert on Friday in the border city plagued by violence. The concert took place at the Benito Juarez Olympic Stadium and also included the Mexican artist Lila Downs and salsero Willie Colon.
Read MoreHundreds of persons will meet today in several areas of this city’s coastline to participate in the Save Your Little Piece drive, coordinated by the Institute of Oceanology, the Centre for Marine Research and the National Aquarium. “This should be a permanent task, that commits neighbors and bathers,” said Angela Corbea, director of the Acualina environmental project.
Read MoreU.S. journalist Edward Schumacher-Matos, from The Washington Post, recommended today to the Barack Obama administration that it unilaterally lift the embargo on Cuba to avoid a new migration wave due to the economic crisis the island is going through.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will release another four political prisoners, out of the 75 detained in 2003, Orlando Márquez, spokesman of the Havana Archbishopric, announced. With this group, 36 dissidents have been released in this process.
Read MoreFive Cubans who infiltrated terrorist groups in southern Florida recently marked their 12th year in prison in the United States. The mission for which they were prosecuted was simply to alert their country of the criminal plans of those organizations.
Read MoreThe 3rd Cuba-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Meeting at the foreign ministers level will begin today in the Cuban capital, the local press reported. The representatives of the 15 Caribbean nations and the host country will debate at the meeting cooperation in areas such as the environment and support for Haiti’s recovery.
Read MoreThe Russian government is interested in that Cuba connect to the Glonass global positioning, the Russian variant of the U.S. GPS, Mikhail Kamynine, the Eurasian ambassador to the island, affirmed. “Russian-Cuban cooperation on high technology has become a priority subject,” the official said.
Read MoreThe ruling Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) asked the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution (CDR), the largest mass organization in the island, to explain to citizens the changes in the economic model and especially the laying off and relocation of half a million persons employed in the state sector.
Read MoreThe real risk if dying of cancer in Cuba increased by 78.21 per cent between 1970 and 2006, revealed an investigation published by the Revista Cubana de Salud Pública magazine. According to the study, the increase could be directly related to the continuous aging of the island’s population.
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