Officials of Cuba and the US meet later this week in Washington to talk immigration, the third time under President Obama that they have met to monitor the 1994 agreement under which the US is supposed to issue 20,000 visas to Cubans each year.
Read MoreThe Council of State, the highest body of power in Cuba, agreed to appoint Gustavo Rodríguez as minister of agriculture with the aim that the current minister, Ulises Rosales del Toro, “dedicate himself full time to the strategic task of the sustainable increase of agricultural production.”
Read MoreThe average minimum temperature has increased in Cuba by 1.4 degrees Celsius in the last 40 years, while precipitations have gone down by 10 per cent and drought periods have become more frequent, according to a research by Braulio Lapinel, Virgen Cutié and Cecilia Fonseca, of the Climate Center of the Institute of Meteorology.
Read MoreArchbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s foreign minister, will also take part in the conference, during a June 15-20 visit to Cuba. His schedule includes talks with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba’s bishops, and possibly President Castro.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has decided to release one sick political prisoner and will move six others to jails closer to home on Saturday, reported IPS quoting Orlando Marquez, spokesperson from the Havana Archdiocese.
Read MoreCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez reiterated to his Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos in a meeting in Paris that the Common Position “is the principal obstacle for the full normalization of relations” between the European Union and the island, reported a Foreign Ministry press release. The 27 nation EU will approve next week the conclusions of their annual review of ties with Cuba.
Read MoreThe National Electoral Commission affirmed in a report handed over to the Council of State that it was not satisfied with the presence of women, young people and black and mestizo persons among the elected in the recent partial elections because they are below their weight within the Cuban population.
Read MoreIn a letter to the US Congress seventy-four of Cuba’s dissidents have asked that the legislators lift the travel ban on US citizens visiting the island, in place for most of the last half century.
Read MoreEastern Cuba was hit by two low intensity earthquakes on Wednesday, informed the National Center for Seismology Research. The tremors registered at 3.7 and 4.8 on the Richter scale and were felt in the provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba and Granma. No injuries or material damage was reported.
Read MoreThe first Iberian-American Gender, Education, Health and Human Development Congress began Wednesday in Cuba with a lecture titled “Sex education as a state policy” given by Mariela Castro, director of the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX), reported IPS. Outstanding specialists will attend the event, such as Marcela Lagarde, from Mexico, and Félix López and Ana Feixas, from Spain.
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