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Spain Pessimistic on Change in EU Cuba Policy

The Spanish government considers that it is difficult that changes can take place in the European Union (EU) policy toward Cuba during its presidency in this bloc, given the opposition of some countries like the Czech Republic and Germany, reported the press in Madrid. Relations with the island have been governed since 1996 by the so-called common position, which the administration of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wishes to change for a framework established on a dialogue by both parties.

Earthquake in Eastern Cuba

An earthquake of 4.6 degrees on the Richter scale was registered yesterday night in eastern Cuba, reported the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). According to the source, the epicentre was located some 50 kilometers south of the city of Santiago de Cuba, the second most important in the island.

Mexico Concerned about Prisoners’ Health

The Mexican government urged the Cuban authorities in a Secretariat of Foreign Affairs communiqué “to carry out the necessary actions to protect the health and dignity of all its prisoners, including those who have been charged or sentenced for the crime of state of dangerousness.” Mexico also expressed in the text its desire to strengthen relations with the island, “based on a state vision and not on ideological positions.

Cuba Gov. Sees Changes in Agriculture

The Cuban authorities will relocate more than 40,000 persons who work indirectly in the agricultural sector, as well as eliminate around 100 state-run companies that are not profitable, announced Minister of Agriculture Ulises Rosales del Toro.

Havana Evens Series with Industriales in 10

Havana Province scored five runs in the last two innings to turn the tables and defeat Industriales 7-4 on Monday to even at two each their best-of-seven series for the Western Division title in the Cuban Baseball League.

Human Rights at the Eye of the Storm

Cuba’s government-controlled media stepped up its offensive Monday in response to what the government calls a well-orchestrated international campaign of misinformation carried out in the last few weeks against this socialist island nation.

Is Guillermo Fariñas’s Hunger Strike Legit?

Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has become a public figure thanks to a hunger strike he is waging over the demand for the release of a group of political prisoners the government describes as mercenaries. Havana Times invites our readers to share their opinions on the legitimacy of the hunger strike .

You Don’t Have To Like Rap

Many of the people who had the good luck of seeing the documentary and who greatly enjoyed it, don’t like rap, in fact can’t even stand to listen to it for more than half an hour. Many of the people who pass CDs of Los Aldeanos from hand to hand, or from flash memory to flash memory – because these recordings aren’t produced by the State’s EGREM or by Colibri Studios or any of the other official studios in the country, nor are they sold in the stores – don’t even know what Hip Hop culture is. But you have to hear Los Aldeanos.

Left Groups Back Cuban Gov.

More than 100 left organizations and parties in Latin America, Asia and Africa backed the Cuban government in the face of the “press campaign” over the hunger strike of two dissidents in a document signed during the 14th International Symposium on “The Parties and a New Society,” held in Mexico.

Evo Morales Criticizes “Scandal” over Prisoner’s Death

Bolivian President Evo Morales questioned the international scandal” over the death of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Tamayo Zapata, in a press conference in the city of Cochabamba, reported IPS. Morales asked “why don’t they criticize capitalism, which every day kills who knows how many people with its economic policies?”