The health ministers of Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil gathered in Port-au-Prince over the weekend to announce the signing of a cooperation agreement to rebuild the Haitian public health system. The Brazilian government pledged $US80 million to help reconstruct the health system, including the establishment of a national epidemiologic surveillance network, to be staffed by Cuban, Haitian and Latin American health professionals trained in Cuba.
Read MoreTrips by Cuban emigrants from the island residing in the United States have increased by 150 to 200 per cent in the first three months of this year, reported IPS quoting Mexico’s La Jornada daily, which cites Armando García, president of Marazul, one of the charter companies that fly from Florida to Cuba.
Read MoreThe 2009-2010 Cuban Baseball Season is down to one game on Wednesday to determine the champion between Villa Clara, last year’s runner-up, and Industriales, the surprise club of the playoffs after a mediocre regular season.
Read MoreI’m a faithful follower of Cuban baseball. Ever since I was little, going to the stadium has constituted one of my most enjoyable pleasures – with the music, the shouting before each home team hit, the songs mocking our opponents, and those ever-friendly disputes with the referees.
Read MoreSeveral days ago, while walking through Havana with a London photographer, he told me he didn’t like the restored part of the city because it appeared too much like just another European city. For this friend, what was different was capturing the municipality of Centro Havana in his lens, an area where the restoration work of the Office of the City Historian has yet to arrive.
Read MoreMore than 25,000 persons affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine have been treated in Cuba in the last 20 years, reported Julio Medina, director of the Cuban health program for the victims of the disaster. The explosion of a reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear plant occurred on April 26, 1986 and affected around nine million persons in the former Soviet Union (USSR).
Read MoreCuban opposition activist Guillermo Fariñas, amid a hunger strike, rejected Spain’s offer to be transferred to that country on an ambulance plane, according to statements by his spokeswoman Liset Zamora. However, the dissident asked Madrid to intercede for 24 sick political prisoners who would be willing to leave the island.
Read MoreFor Cuban citizens it is virtually impossible (and punishable) to formally testify against, monitor or criticize any alleged human rights violation committed by officials or state institutions —on occasion contrary to its own 1992 socialist constitution— given the capacity for social control by the State and the subordination of the mass media to government directives.
Read MoreWe know the enemy’s tactics. In their plans, polarization should lead the situation of the country to a worsened political and economic disaster at the hands of the authoritarian conservatives, contrary to the need for all forms of democratization and socialization.
Read MoreCuban-Americana singer Gloria Estefan headed a march this past Friday in Miami in support of the Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White. Likewise, actor Andy Garcia headed a protest on Sunday in Los Angeles with the same objective.
Havana Times invites its readers to reflect on this issue:
What has compelled these artists to lead demonstrations against the Cuban government?
Are they defending the interests of Cubans who live on the island?
Will these marches contribute to better relations between Cuba and the United States?
Participate in the debate.
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