Cuban virtuoso jazz pianist Chucho Valdes will record a special song titled Haiti volverá (Haiti will Return) dedicated to the victims of the earthquake that devastated the capital of the Caribbean country on January 12. Chucho agreed to donate the rights to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help with the recovery effort.
Read MoreA US government agent jailed in Cuba for distributing illegal electronic equipment and the Cuban Five jailed in the US for conspiracy to commit espionage may axe any hopes of a significant change in the adversarial relations of a half century between the two neighboring countries.
Read MoreHoward Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010), a militant anarchist, social activist, historian and American political scientist, has left on a new journey.
Read MoreFor the coup supporters and their international allies, it will be the date of reconciliation and the return to normality by the country. For the Resistance, however, it will mark the continuity of a coup-supporting dictatorial régime controlled by the military and factions that are attempting to absolve themselves of their crimes and to deepen the neoliberal economic model.
Read MoreHundreds of persons began being treated this morning in the fourth field hospital installed by the Cuban medical brigade in Haiti, this one in Croix des Bouquets, 10 miles from the center of Port-au-Prince, where a group of Cuban healthcare professionals are working together with Haitian students from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).
Read MoreIn 2009 emigrants were the second most important source of tourists for Cuba, with the arrival of 296,000 persons born in the country but residing abroad. Canada continues being the most important tourist market for Cuba, with more than 914,000 visitors, followed by Great Britain and Spain.
Read MoreA ledger book currency called the SUCRE took effect Wednesday among the countries belonging to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and has a value of US $1.25, announced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Read MorePorfirio Lobo, who was sworn in Wednesday as president of Honduras, urged the people of his country and the international community to “forget the past” and move ahead towards reconciliation. Shortly after Lobo’s inauguration, Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted as president in a Jun. 28 coup, boarded a plane to the Dominican Republic, where he will stay briefly before settling in Mexico with his family.
Read MoreSenator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin democrat, wrote President Obama on Wednesday calling on him to end the US government funding of Radio and TV Marti, stations beamed illegally from the United States to Cuba.
Read MoreIf this conference translates into true dialogue, and not a monologue or secret meetings of the privileged, the forum will discuss issues of the normalization of immigration, which is a concern to most Cubans and whose reform is a matter under the exclusive authority (in the sense of power and capacity) of the Cuban state.
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