Cell phone call prices in Cuba will begin to drop the first week of May, announced the Communications Ministry on Thursday, which says the goal is to increase service access and use. The changes involve both international and local calls. For Cubans calling family and friends abroad the good news is that the steep rates will drop from 42 to 75%.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro returned home at midday on Wednesday after attending a summit of the Boliviarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) in Caracas, Venezuela. Meanwhile, Cuban VP Esteban Lazo arrived in Cochabamba, Bolivia on Wednesday to attend the World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth hosted by Bolivian President Evo Morales.
Read More“My future is to see my country transformed, a different country, where Haitians feel happy and proud to be in their country. Where they don’t need to emigrate, where Haitian children have access to education… I see myself working to make this Haiti a reality. My future is to work towards change.”
Read MoreThe secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, asked the Cuban government to release the sick political prisoners, as “a sign of goodwill that would not weaken the Cuban regime,” in statements to the Spanish press during a seminar on European Union relations with Latin America, held in Madrid.
Read MoreCuba registered a sustained increase of respiratory diseases linked to the A H1N1 influenza virus in the last four weeks, reported the National Laboratory of Influenza Virus of the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine, based in the island’s capital. The Caribbean country’s health authorities are carrying out a vaccination campaign that will immunize 1,124,000 persons (a tenth of the island’s total population) included in risk groups.
Read MoreThere were times when I reflected on my situation and I concluded that I had spent a considerable amount of my lifetime waiting at bus stops. It was at these stops where I had witnessed the most interesting things and had come up with the most interesting thoughts. It was at bus stops where I had met the most interesting —and the most uninteresting— people in my life.
Read MoreFew Cubans know that one can find the foremost works by a renowned twentieth-century Danish painter right here in our capital. These are by Asger Jorn (1914-1973), one of the most outstanding neo-expressionist artists and a one-time friend of the world-recognized late Cuban painter Wifredo Lam.
Read MoreThe majority of US citizens support a restoration of diplomatic ties with Cuba as well as commercial relations with the Caribbean island nation, according to a poll quoted by IPS from the Spanish daily ABC. The poll also showed majority support for lifting the travel ban that prohibits US citizens from visiting Cuba without a special US Treasury Dept. license.
Read MoreThe 9th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) came to a close on Monday night with a pledge to continue the Latin American independence quest led in the early 19th century by Simon Bolivar.
Read MoreThe newly created Comptroller’s office in Cuba announced it will carry out hundreds of surprise audits of state business firms and institutions through May 21, hoping to verify the use of resources, informed IPS on Tuesday. Corruption at all levels is widely recognized as a leading problem facing the future of Cuba’s 51-year-old revolution.
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