Famous Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was once again denied permission to leave Cuba to attend an international event, claims her husband, Reinaldo Escobar, also a blogger. IPS reported that Sanchez was to attend the Fifth International Congress of the Spanish Language in Chile scheduled to take place in Valparaiso from March 2-5, but cancelled due to the powerful earthquake that hit Chile on February 27.
Read MoreA cold front that moved into Cuba on Wednesday brought three meter waves in parts of Havana flooding the Malecon seawall drive and low lying parts of the city including a section of the Vedado district. By sunset the sea incursion was considerably less. Caridad captured some of the dramatic scenes.
Read MoreIndustriales scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh on route to a 6-4 win over Sancti Spiritus on Wednesday and took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven quarterfinal playoff. Twenty year old reliever Armando Martinez allowed the feared Sancti Spiritus lineup only one hit in the final 2.1 innings to pick up the win.
Read MoreThe deafening silence of Latin American governments has fallen like another shovelful of earth on the grave of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata, a bricklayer who died Feb. 23 after nearly three months on hunger strike in prison on the Caribbean island.
Read MoreA cold front that moved into Cuba on Wednesday brought three meter waves in parts of Havana flooding the Malecon seawall drive in some parts of Old and Centro Havana.
Read MoreTo emigrate is a painful process in general, but in the case of Cubans it also means taking a trip with no return. As if they’ve committed a serious crime, the State robs them of all their belongings.
It doesn’t matter that these were legally acquired goods; everything will be confiscated, from one’s house and car to even the furniture. If you refuse to turn them over, you will not receive your “Permiso de Salida” (Exit Permit) from the all powerful Office of Immigration.
Read MoreJuan Yasser Serrano, a right-handed pitcher who played for Cuba’s Villa Clara team has signed a six-figure contract with the Chicago Cubs. Serrano will get a US $250,000 contract; a far cry from the $30 million recently granted Aroldis Chapman by the Cincinnati Reds, but not bad for a pitcher with a 14-16 lifetime record and 4.40 ERA in the Cuban Baseball League.
Read MoreA team of US doctors trained at Cuba’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) returned home last weekend after serving a month alongside colleagues from Haiti, Cuba, Honduras and elsewhere in the Cuban field hospital at Croix des Bouquets east of Port-au-Prince.
Read MoreThe finding of five polished axes, some 25 flattened gouges made from seashells and ceramic fragments could indicate the existence or influence of agricultural-pottery indigenous people in the north of the central province of Villa Clara, where to date there was only information about the presence of farming-fishing groups before the Spanish conquest in 1510, announced Raúl Villavicencio, archaeologist from the Center for Environmental Studies and Services.
Read MoreCuba is at the head of the tourist sector in the Caribbean, affirmed Rafael Romeu, an official from the International Monetary Fund (IFM) in charge of economic projections for Latin America, when speaking at the 12th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems, being held in the Cuban capital. In 2009 the island reported the highest growth in tourist arrivals compared to the other countries in the area.
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