The film “Casa vieja” (Old house) by Cuban director Lester Hamlet won the coveted top award at the 8th Low-Budget Film Festival in Gibara, Holguin, Cuba. Hamelt won a US $70,000 prize he said he would use to make video clips and short films
Read MoreCuban’s flocked to the polls on Sunday to elect local representatives to the country’s 169 municipal assemblies of “People’s Power”. As in previous elections the government reported a massive turnout, over 93.49% one hour before the polls closed.
Read MoreHere in my country, on the eve of Cubans turning out to vote in the April 25 elections, I can feel pity for people in the US who went to the polls with the hope that their vote could change things in their country. How naive.
Read MoreCuba and Venezuela agreed to create a new joint venture that will work with oil and gas prospecting in the north of Venezuela for the next 25 years, according to a communiqué from the Venezuelan state-run PDVSA Oil Company, which will share the costs and benefits with Cuba’s CUPET Oil Company.
Read MoreAmong the private campesinos, Don Alejandro stood out as much for the quality of his tobacco as for the productivity of his land. His prestige was such that Fidel Castro himself —the father of the agricultural collectivization— went to his farm to learn its secrets.
Read MoreCell 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.
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