The head of the Cuban Civil Aeronautics Institute is to be replaced, announced the Council of State on Monday. Brigade General Ramon Martinez will take over for General Rogelio Acevedo, the current president of the Institute. Martinez is the second in command at the Air Force.
Read MoreThe most frustrating thing is not being subjected to a law that one doesn’t know about, but being subjected to it even after finding out it doesn’t exist. Yet the immense majority of people in our country don’t ask where the laws appear. It’s enough to tell them: “You can’t do that” or “You can’t go into this.”
Read MoreDressed in black with chains hanging from their waists and necks, ready to writhe from side to side, the young lovers of the hardest strain of rock enjoyed their first Havana festival: Black Metal 6.6.6 FEST. (10 photos)
Read MoreThe state news media in Cuba reported Monday on the case of dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on a hunger strike for 13 days and refuses to go into exile in Spain.
Read MoreSouthpaw Aroldis Chapman made his much awaited Major League Baseball debut on Monday in a spring training game against Kansas City. He pitched the third and fourth innings without allowing a run in the game won by Cincy 14-5.
Read MoreThree months ago Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella won the award for Best Director at the Havana Film Festival for “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in their eyes). On Monday, he won a prestigious Oscar in Hollywood for the Best Foreign Film.
Read MoreIf these countries actually desire to use US Internet companies is another subject. In the case of Cuba, to date the island’s government has put it hopes on improving its Internet capacity and services via a fiber optic cable to be laid from Venezuela to Jamaica to Cuba.
Read MoreCuba holds opposition member Guillermo Fariñas responsible for his health and affirmed that he and the “unpatriotic persons, foreign diplomats and the media that manipulate him” should resolve the problem created by his hunger strike in demand for the release of political prisoners, according to a news item published today by the official Granma daily. “If he is alive today, it must be said, it is thanks to the qualified medical care he has received notwithstanding the fact that he is a mercenary.”
Read MoreThe Western Division playoffs between Havana Province and Industriales start Wednesday and Thursday with games one and two in San Jose de las Lajas, home of Havana Province, last year’s league champions. The Eastern Division playoff finals between Villa Clara, last year’s league runner-ups and Ciego de Avila open with games one and two on Thursday and Friday in Santa Clara, home of Villa Clara.
Read MoreThe Cuban government sent a new group of nine doctors and technicians to strengthen the brigade of 27 already working in Chile after the recent devastating earthquake. Currently 423 Chileans are studying on scholarships in Cuba, the majority in careers related to medicine.
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