A Cuban-Venezuelan company will be in charge of building a new international airport in the city of Cap Haitien, reported IPS citing official sources in Port-au-Prince. The work will cost 33 million dollars, which will be defrayed by a loan from Venezuela to be paid in 25 years.
Read MoreThe Ultra Micro Analytic System (SUMA) will be put at the disposition of all the municipalities in Cuba in 2010, announced José Luis Hernández Yero, director of the Immunoassay Center. That technology, created in the island, is used in diagnosing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV, which causes AIDS), hepatitis B and metabolic diseases in newborns.
Read MoreHT is happy to announce a second photo contest for our readers. This time around there will be three categories: Cuban Daily Life (Urban), Rural Cuba and Unusual Cuba photos. The First Place photo in each of the three categories will have a US $75 prize and a US $25 Second Prize, as well as a special mention. For all the details see the full post…
Read MoreThe Registry Department of the Dominican Republic’s Secretariat of Public Health registered a group of Cuban pharmaceutical products used in the treatment of diseases such as cancer, AIDS, diabetic foot ulcers and hepatitis B.
Read MoreThe Cuban Association of Cinema Press awarded the short Brainstorm, by writer Eduardo del Llano, one of the prizes to the best national productions in 2009, it was reported by the accredited media in the island. The film, which has circulated from hand to hand among the population but has not been premiered in movie theatres, nor on Cuban TV. Brainstorm questions how the Caribbean country’s state-run press functions.
Read MoreVaradero beach resort, 120 kilometers east of the Cuban capital, today received its millionth tourist for 2009, a figure that confirms it as one of the country’s principal tourist destinations, reported IPS. The peninsula located in Matanzas Province welcomes 40 per cent of the tourists who come to the island; today there are 48 hotels.
Read MoreRelations between Cuba and the United States are still bogged down in longstanding political and ideological differences, in spite of the signals of greater openness and opportunities for dialogue when Democratic U.S. President Barack Obama arrived at the White House.
Read MoreFor Jorge Garcia, being a trova musician meant much more than singing accompanied by a guitar. “It is an attitude before the world. It’s to put up with them calling you crazy in the most basic sense. It’s to have no fear of saying what you feel, even though it hurts.”
Read MoreExcept for such tragicomic incidents, my young Cuban friend summarized the emotion of the encounter in a single phase. “They spoke about the divided family, the nostalgia… and I was happy to be able to rekindle that, to see new people and rediscover old faces… singing, shouting and standing up for a better future for our generation…”
Read MoreIt will not be some imperialistic policy that reverses this revolution. If this occurs, as Fidel Castro expressed (in Nov. 2005), it would be by its own revolutionaries, whose inabilities offer the fuel that feeds the anti-socialist fire. The main danger is from within, from those “revolutionaries” suffering from blindness, authoritarianism and bureaucratic sclerosis.
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