The 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.”
Read MoreThe Cuban government eliminated restrictions and simplified the procedures for renting homes in order to facilitate self-employment and alleviate the housing deficit the country is facing, the official media commented today. A new regulation on the subject authorizes the renting of homes even for persons with Cuban nationality who have permits to reside abroad.
Read MoreCuba’s 2010-2011 Baseball Season opened with a thriller on Sunday as Villa Clara defeated last year’s champions Industriales 6-5 in 11 innings before nearly 40,000 fans at Havana’s Latinoamericano Stadium.
Read MoreCuba will send 300 health professionals to Haiti to strengthen its contingent, already near 1,000 strong, deployed in that country, with the aim of answering the call made by UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos, who asked the international community for more aid to face the cholera epidemic, former President Fidel Castro announced in his most recent Reflection.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities have received more than 80,000 applications for self-employment since the start of the reform begun by the government last October to expand the private sector on the island, announced the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. This opening hopes to absorb part of the 500,000 persons who will be jobless up to March 2011.
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