The Cuban government maintains that its health authorities did everything possible to save the life of political prisoner Orlando Zapata who died last week at the Hermanos Amejeiras Hospital in Havana after an 85 day hunger strike.
Read MoreCuban baseball launched its landmark twenty-fifth edition of National Series playoffs this past weekend and thrills and surprises are seemingly guaranteed to fill the bill during this year’s historic post-season championship competition.
Read MoreThe person who told me this story is an acquaintance who I occasionally run into at the bus stop. When I told him that I write for an Internet site that doesn’t belong to the country’s official press and I then requested he go into the details of the story, he got scared.
Read MoreCuban First VP Jose Ramon Machado Ventura arrived in Uruguay on Sunday to attend the inauguration Monday of President Jose Mujica. On his first day in Montevideo Machado met with both outgoing president Tabaré Vazquez as well as the president elect.
Read MoreHAVANA TIMES, Mar. 1 – Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas began today an official visit to Cuba at the invitation of President Raúl Castro, reported IPS. The two nations have had diplomatic relations since April 1979.
Read MoreCuban authorities hope to expand the suburban agriculture program to 156 localities after good results in the 18 municipalities where that initiative began last January, affirmed Adolfo Rodríguez, national head of the project. The island also hopes to produce all the vegetable seeds it needs instead of imports.
Read MoreSancti Spiritus avoided being swept as the home team defeating Industriales 8-1 on Sunday. The team from the capital had opened the series with a 3-1 win on Saturday.
Read MoreUndoubtedly, General Raul Castro is a man of few words, so much so that journalists must remain on the prowl hunting for some loose phrases, new facts or rumors to piece together our “puzzles” as to what has happened here over the past two years.
Read MoreOne of these dangers could be that after a certain degree of stabilization, the State will do with cooperatives the same as it did with self-employed workers: limiting them by almost exhausting them with taxes, inspections, high input prices, regulations, etc., “because people were making a lot of money.” This already happened once.
Read MoreThose who do rate as highly suspect are the Cubans who visit relatives in Florida. They are now being thoroughly reviewed to ensure they are not carrying explosives to blow up airplanes or perpetrate violent attacks as they stroll down Calle 8 in Miami.
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