Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega called for “accepting the difficult aspects” that the ongoing changes in Cuba can bring with them, in a homily in the Havana church dedicated to Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, considered by the Catholic Church as the island’s patron saint. The also archbishop of Havana reiterated his certainty that all the dissidents imprisoned in 2003 will be released, as the government promised.
Read MoreIn an interview with Atlantic Magazine former Cuban President Fidel Castro recognized that the State had assumed too big a role in the island’s economy.
Read MoreTropical Storm Igor is still close to the northwest African coast but Cuba’s weather experts are already tracking its progress as it begins moving west. The storm formed quickly and at noon Wednesday was 155 kilometers southeast of the Cape Verde Islands, reports The Cuban Meteorological Institute.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro questioned the anti-Semitism of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and urged him to recognize the Jewish Holocaust and Israel’s reasons to fear for its existence, in statements to Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist with the U.S. magazine The Atlantic, with whom he met for three days in the island’s capital last August. Castro also affirmed that the sanctions against the Persian nation will not dissuade it from wanting to develop nuclear weapons.
Read MoreRepresentatives of Cuba and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will focus their attention on Haiti’s situation after last January 12’s earthquake during the two sides’ third summit to be held in the Cuban capital on September 17, reported IPS. The socialist system nation has a contingent of 1,500 specialists, the majority of them health professionals, in the neighboring Caribbean countries.
Read MoreRev. Lucius Walker Jr., head of the Pastors for Peace group and a close friend of the Cuban revolution, died on Tuesday after suffering a massive heart attack at the age of 80.
Read MoreThe Cuban authorities will do without the mobilization of students and other personnel not linked to agricultural work to assume the 2010-2011 coffee harvest, as part of a plan to reduce expenditures during the international economic crisis, IPS reported. The measure, one of the agreements of the past 10th Congress of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), will put in the hands of the farm cooperatives the major part of the responsibility in this crop, whose per-hectare yields have dropped by a third over the last decade.
Read MoreMore than 70 specialists from several countries will attend starting today the 3rd International Seminar on Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, to be held in the Cuban capital’s International Convention Center, sources from the Organizing Committee announced. The event, sponsored by the Office of the Scientific Advisor and the Center for Advanced Studies of Cuba, will dedicate its sessions to subjects such as bionanotechnology and nanomedicine, and the social impact of the nanotechnologies.
Read MoreSome 70,000 persons in Cuba have Spanish citizenship, among them 17,000 who claimed that status in 2009 through the Law of Historic Memory, known as the law of grandchildren, which “recognizes the injustice represented by the exile of many Spaniards during the Civil War and the Dictatorship” of Francisco Franco (1892-1975).
Read MoreThe fourth wind park built in Cuba, in the northeastern region of Gibara, today entered its final stage of civil construction and technological adjustments for its start up, reported IPS. The installation is made up by six machines capable of generating up to 4,500 kilowatt-hours, built on platforms sufficiently high to avoid the effect of sea encroachments.
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