Former Cuban President Fidel Castro —senior advisor to the government of Raul Castro— will give his analysis on the international situation before a special session of the Cuban parliament on Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. local time.
Read MoreCuba’s coffee harvest for the 2010-2011 cycle should be between 20 and 25 percent higher than the poor showing last year. Last season was the worst coffee harvest in over a half century and combined with the worst sugar harvest in over a century in the struggling Cuban agriculture.
Read MoreIn a ritual that takes place each year, the United States once again included Cuba in its list of countries that support terrorism, rejected immediately by Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. The list includes Iran, Sudan, Syria and Cuba.
Read MoreThe Cuban summer is its second month and a full schedule of cultural activities in the capital is underway. Here are some of the listings for music, dance, visual art, theater, etc., for the month of August.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro asked U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid a nuclear war, which would break out as a consequence of the conflict with Iran. The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution has dedicated a series of Reflections, published by the island’s state-run press, to analyzing Washington’s current conflict with Teheran and North Korea.
Read MoreRepresentatives of Cuba, Brazil and Haiti will assess until next Friday the possibilities of cooperation with that Caribbean nation, devastated by an earthquake last January 12, during the fourth tripartite meeting being held in the Latin American School of Medicine in the Cuban capital. The meeting is emphasizing the training of human resources in the area of public health.
Read MoreCuba’s Border Patrol and the US Coast Guard worked in coordination to abort the kidnapping of a vessel in which four persons from the island were attempting to illegally reach the United States after taking over the vessel at the Tarará Nautical Base, east of the Cuban capital. The kidnappers and the vessel were returned in compliance with the Migration Agreements in force.
Read MoreCardinal Jaime Ortega will meet with Arturo Valenzuela, U.S. assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, according to press reports in Washington. Ortega traveled to the U.S. capital to receive the Gaudium et Spes Prize of the Order of the Knights of Columbus.
Read MoreFormer President Fidel Castro presented the book “Por todos los caminos de la Sierra: La Victoria estratégica” (All roads lead to the Sierra: The Strategic victory) which compiles the story of the offensive of the army of Fulgencio Batista against the guerrilla forces he led in the summer of 1958. The events covered were the prelude to the counter offensive that would take Castro to power in January 1959.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro announced a series of measures to gradually reduce the “considerably bulky” payrolls in the government sector, with excess estimated at around one-fifth of the economically active population.
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