Amid criticism that the U.S. Defense Department was prioritizing military and rescue air traffic to earthquake-stricken Haiti, U.S. officials controlling the country’s main airport have agreed to guarantee landing slots for planes carrying humanitarian aid.
Read MoreThe year 2009 closed as one of the 10 hottest reported in Cuba since 1951, registering a mean temperature of 25.93 degrees Celsius (78.67 F), reported Ramón Pérez, of the Climate Centre of the Institute of Meteorology. Last year was also less rainy than the historical average in all the country’s regions.
Read MoreIn our country, it seems a “revolutionary” is —solely— a person who agrees with the official discourse all the time. The concept of revolution is not the one included in the dictionary, but the one coined by officialdom. We’ve lost the concept of what a genuinely revolutionary position is.
Read MoreNew York City recently hosted its first Cuban band in five years, after the group Septeto Nacional became the first to win a visa that allowed it to accept a booking there.
Read MoreThis was not just a regular church service. For one thing, Mass is usually celebrated in the church pews, not in the yard. So it was on the first Sunday after an earthquake destroyed this city, survivors struggled to keep to their routine, including attending Mass.
Read MoreThe 5th Cuban Congress on Sex Education, Guidance and Therapy begins Monday in the Cuban capital with the participation of some 300 specialists, announced Mariela Castro, director of the National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX).
Read MoreThe large Cuban medical brigade caring for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti on January 12 began receiving the backing of specialists from other countries, noted the local press on Sunday. Personnel from Venezuela, Chile, Spain and Haitian resident physicians who studied in Cuba are already working with the Cuban medial teams deployed at different points in the capital of Port au Prince.
Read MoreBillionaire Sebastian Piñera won a close election Sunday for the Chilean presidency over governing coalition candidate Eduardo Frei.
Read MoreThe sun had barely set and already, the residents of Rue Berne were making their beds. These bedrooms were makeshifts arranged neatly on one side of the street, away from shaky walls and fragile home frames that remain so dangerous.
Read MoreHaiti bleeds and the international community searches for ways to help amid the chaos so that the immediate needs of the population of Port au Prince can be met after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake destroyed the city. On Saturday night former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote his second post-quake commentary on the desperate situation in the Haitian capital and the participation of Cuban medical personnel in the relief effort.
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