While Cuban leaders repeatedly state that the continuation of the Revolution is guaranteed, many of the country’s professional young people in their 20s and 30s see their future leaving for greener pastures abroad.
Read MoreCuban Vice President Esteban Lazo is in Costa Rica on Sunday heading the island’s delegation to the swearing in of President Laura Chinchilla Miranda in San Jose. Costa Rica and Cuba restored diplomatic relations in 2009 after the Central American nation unilaterally broke off ties with the Caribbean nation back in 1961.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro affirmed that U.S. President Barack Obama “ignores reality and doesn’t want nor could he overcome it,” in one of his usual Reflections. “He rather dreams of unreal things in an unreal world,” said the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, who referred to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the blockade against the island and the measures against immigration in the state of Arizona.
Read More“It’s not even 7:30 and already it’s hot as we board the bus for the circuitous, rubble-pocked ride to Hôpital Universitaire de la Paix. As the crow flies, it’s probably less than a mile from our tent camp to Port-au-Prince’s university teaching hospital, but weaving between vendors and tents pitched in the street, and then caught behind a tractor or backhoe, means it takes almost an hour to get there.”
Read MoreThe special assistant for Latin America of the president of the United States, Daniel Restrepo, in statements to the press in Washington ruled out that the White House would lift the blockade against Cuba, claiming the government of Raúl Castro has not carried out positive steps regarding the fundamental rights of the Cuban people.
Read MoreTop Cuban singer/songwriters are performing these days in the United States with Silvio Rodriguez set to bring his music to Carnegie Hall, NY on June 4th and Carlos Varela is on the venue this weekend in Oakland and Sonoma California.
Read MoreThis weekend the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba will be visited by some 130 journalists specializing in tourism as part of the International Tourism Fair being held in the island’s capital. This city, the second in importance in the country, has 24 hotels and 1,800 rooms.
Read MoreCuban specialists have treated close to a million handicapped persons in the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), reported Marcia Cobas, deputy minister of collaboration, international relations and information of the Ministry of Public Health. The Cuban brigade deployed in Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have also handed over wheelchairs, mattresses, medicines and other means to improve the patients’ health.
Read MoreAgriculture bureaucrats responsible for allowing much of Cuba’s farmland to be invaded by the marabu bush weed are losing ground in the countryside, while campesino families are beginning to take control over their own properties. Land in Cuba is changing hands and the effect is immediate: food production is increasing.
The authorities have taken a first step toward transforming land tenure, but they also need to change the distribution and commercialization system. Otherwise, all the efforts of farmers in the field will never be reflected on Cuban tables.
Read MoreHoly See Foreign Minister Dominique Mamberti will travel to Cuba to participate in the tenth Catholic Social Week, to be held next June 16-20, announced a note from the Archdiocese of Havana, which is organizing the event. The meeting will discuss “the need for dialogue and reconciliation between Cubans and the challenges of the national economy,” among other issues.
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