Cuban President Raúl Castro visited areas affected by last Saturday’s earthquake, the island’s state-run press reported today. Castro met with the local authorities and with specialists from the National Centre for Seismological Research. The earthquake of 5.5 degrees on the Richter scale caused damage to 316 homes and 19 buildings in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.
Read MoreLadies in White, a group of wives and relatives of Cuban political prisoners, asked Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos to reconsider his plan to change the current policy of the European Union (EU) toward Cuba, which since 1996 has been governed by the common position that demands changes in the island for the normalization of bilateral relations, said Blanca Reyes, the group’s spokeswoman.
Read MoreGerman Mesa’s Industriales ball club has indisputably been the “big story” from Day One of this spring’s post-season saga. After disappointing a couple million loyal fanatics in the Capital City by finishing well off the playoff pace during Mesa’s debut last season, the weaker-than-normal 2010 Blue Lions also seemed destined to repeat the letdown at the tail end of the current season.
Read MoreMuch thanks to those that know where I live these days and have written with concern after reading or seeing news about the volcanic activity on the island of Ometepe, in the middle of the Lake of Nicaragua.
Read MoreAn earthquake with a 5.6 magnitude struck near Guantanamo, Cuba on Saturday at 2:08 p.m. reported Cubadebate.cu. No injuries or serious structural damage was reported.
Read MoreThe Cuban government demanded that the U.S. authorities guarantee “the security and physical integrity of the diplomatic mission and its personnel” at the UN after a “dangerous and provocative incident” involving some 30 exiles in front of the island’s mission in New York, according to a letter released by this multilateral organization.
Read MoreOperation Miracle, a free ophthalmologic care programme carried out by Cuba and Venezuela, has benefited more than 10,000 persons in El Salvador, the island’s state-run press reported today. Since its creation in 2004, this initiative has treated some 1.6 million patients in 35 countries.
Read MoreBeyond the facts, those who are accustomed to following the course of events from within begin to sense the presence of a pattern that has been repeated over and over during the history of Cuba in the last decades: the vicious and seemingly inevitable circle of relaxing – tightening and/or crisis – hardening.
Read MoreHere is the schedule for best-of-seven championship baseball series between Industriales —which plays out of Havana’s Latinoamericano Stadium— and Villa Clara, headquartered in the city of Santa Clara in central Cuba.
Read MoreDiplomatic relations between Cuba and Mexico could be strained if the Mexican Senate passes a condemnation of the death of opposition member Orlando Zapata, and demands the release of political prisoners on the island, said Cuban Ambassador Manuel Aguilera.
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