The US economic blockade on Cuba has lasted about a half century and one of its biggest supporters, Miami Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, threw in the towel on Thursday, saying he would not seek a tenth two-year term in office.
Read MoreWith 10 games to go in the 90-game regular season, three teams —Sancti Spiritus, Guantanamo and Villa Clara— are assured a ticket to Cuba’s baseball playoffs while eight others have a chance for the remaining five slots.
Read MoreAnother 200 doctors will join the Cuban doctors and medical staff working in Haiti on Friday, announced Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer. The new contingent of young physicians are graduates of the Havana based Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) and hail from 24 countries.
Read MoreJaime Castañeda of Colombia raced to victory in Stage 2 of the Vuelta a Cuba cycling event on Wednesday clocking 2:41.02 hours for the 111 kilometer trek from Guantanamo to Santiago de Cuba. Wilmen Bravo of Venezuela and Ryan Roth of Canada finished second and third.
Read MoreCuba’s annual International Book Fair kicks off on Thursday in Havana with Russia as the guest of honor and publishers and book sellers from 40 countries attending. Among the special guests are South African Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel Prize for Literature, and Canadian Margeret Atwood, Prince of Asturias Award winner for Literature in 2008
Read MoreThe president of the autonomous government of the Canary Islands, Paulion Rivero Baute, will make an official visit to Cuba between February 14-16, informed the Spanish Embassy in Havana.
Read MoreCuba is a key country in Russia’s relations with Latin America, said Foreign Minister Serguei Lavrov who begins a visit to Havana on Wedensday. The official will attend the opening Thursday of the Cuba International Book Fair, to which Russia is the guest of honor this year. Numerous Russian publishers are on hand for the event as well as a broad cultural program with Russian artists.
Read MoreThe Puerto Rican Olympic Committee awaits an announcement possibly on Wednesday from Cuba on its participation in the Central American and Caribbean Games to take place in Mayagüez in July, said David Ernier, president of the sports entity. Cuba is the all-time leader in the Central American and Caribbean Games and once again the team to beat in the 2010 event.
Read MoreInaction on Capitol Hill and a White House so far unwilling to do what it takes to break the ice for restored US-Cuba relations, has the lifting of the travel ban forbidding ordinary US citizens from visiting Cuba at a standstill.
Read MoreCuba will train professionals in archaeology in a new research area opened at Los Buchillones Archaeological Site in Ciego de Avila, in the island’s central region, reported IPS. The remains of a large village of pre-Columbian indigenous people were found in that region, an unprecedented find in the Caribbean.
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