The U.S. government will transfer to a prison in Chicago dozens of prisoners it has in the Guantánamo Naval Base detention center, in eastern Cuba, reported IPS citing official sources in Washington. President Barack Obama promised to close down that prison in 2010.
Read MoreCuban authorities arrested 83 persons on December 10, the majority of them at their homes, during International Human Rights Day, said Elizardo Sánchez, president of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. That day the Ladies in White, wives and relatives of political prisoners, were also surrounded by government followers when they marched through the streets of the island’s capital.
Read MoreBy Circles Robinson HAVANA TIMES, Dec. 15 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton questioned the human rights situation in
Read MoreCuban authorities expanded the number of rooms of the María la Gorda International Scuba Diving Center and the installations of Los Morros de la Piedra Marina in the Biosphere Reserve of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, in the western tip of the Caribbean country, announced Julio Camacho, director of the Office for the Development of that island.
Read MoreThe 8th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) will conclude today at the Cuban capital’s Convention Centre, reported IPS. The delegations of the nine member countries of this regional integration mechanism focused their discussions on subjects such as the global economic crisis and climate change.
Read MoreThe US Congress approved the lifting of restrictions imposed in 2005 by the George W. Bush administration on food sales to Cuba, reported the press in Washington. This measure will allow the island to again pay in cash while the merchandise is being transported and not through third country banks before the shipment of products.
Read MorePuerto Rico’s Calle 13 duo will give a concert in Cuba next March, announced its vocalist and composer René Pérez. The musicians did not get authorization from the U.S. government to travel to the island in December, where they would have presented the documentary Sin Mapa during the Havana Film Festival.
Read More“Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world,” Cuban expert Luis Bérriz said in an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital.
Read MorePepe gets up every day at five in the morning so he can use the bathroom before everyone else in the house does (three adults and a child), and he leaves before eight. His work, a cafeteria for construction workers, is four or five bus stops from his home. Most of the time he prefers to walk and gets to the job by nine o’clock at the latest.
Read MoreLeaders and top-level representatives of the nine Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) nations are in Havana or soon to arrive for a summit that gets underway on Sunday. The ALBA countries are about to launch a new currency called the “sucre” to facilitate regional exchange and reduce dependence on the US dollar for cooperation and trade.
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