Tropical Storm Danielle poses no threat to Cuba according to projections from the US National Hurricane Center (NHC). Cuba was hit by three major hurricanes in 2008 that dealt a severe blow to the nation’s economy, especially the housing construction program.
Read MoreThe governor has a record of supporting an end to the US travel ban on Cuba and a relaxing of the half century economic embargo on the island.
Read MoreThe newspaper Courier Journal from Louisville, Kentucky, defended the elimination of the travel to Cuba restrictions instead of easing them, as White House representatives have announced as a possibility. In an editorial the daily also said that the embargo has been a failed effort to oust Fidel Castro’s government. Greater contact with the U.S. people could encourage the Cuban population’s wish to make economic and political changes, it said.
Read MoreThe Cuban Catholic Church rejected the insults contained in an open letter to Pope Benedict XVI, which questions its role in the release of the island’s political prisoners after the negotiation with the Cuban government, according to a press note released in this capital. The Church’s action, notes the text, “has not relied, nor will it ever rely, on political tendencies, or on those of the government or those opposed to them, but rather on its pastoral mission.”
Read MoreThe former Cuban president affirmed that he feels “optimistic on rational and solid bases,” despite the natural disasters caused by human action, in his latest Reflection, published by the island’s state-run press. Castro considered that “the solution is at the reach of many persons if we are able to get the truth to enough persons among the thousands of millions who inhabit the planet.”
Read MoreClaiming to be the “largest travel service provider to Cuba,” Marazul Charters is gearing up for a possible boom in travel to the Caribbean island if rumors that President Obama will allow greater access to some US citizens prove true.
Read MoreCuban filmmaker Marylin Solaya premiered in the Cuban capital’s Charles Chaplin theatre the documentary En el cuerpo equivocado (In the Wrong Body), which tells the story of Mavi Susel, the first transsexual who underwent a sex change operation in the island in 1988, reported IPS. In the coming days HT will present a review of the documentary.
Read MoreMore than 50 per cent of the persons who have received lands in usufruct, according to Law 259 of 2008, are young, Pedro Olivera, director of the National Land Control Center, said. According to the source, out of the 1,007,112 hectares handed over until now, only 46 per cent are producing due to a “lack of resources and work means and the drought that has hit the country.”
Read MoreA group of Cuban bloggers and intellectuals, headed by dissident photographer and writer Orlando Luis Pardo, released a new cultural magazine called Voces, which has begun circulating in pdf format on the web and through email.
Read MoreThe Hip-Hop 2010 International Symposium will begin today in the Cuban capital with the participation of artists from Mexico, Haiti and the United States, the local press reported. The event, during which workshops, concerts and lectures will be given, is sponsored by the Cuban Rap Agency, the Institute of Music and the Hermanos Saíz Association.
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