News Archives - Page 1250 of 1372

With Cuba’s Doctors in Haiti

“We were told this was a very rough area, with a lot of crime when we learned where we would be working,” said Arnaldo Santa Cruz, a physical therapist from Havana. But with over 6 weeks in operation, the Cubans are respected and protected by Belair’s community.

Today, like every day, women with babies and their young children, grandmothers and the odd man, wait patiently to see one of the “Cuban doctors” as the entire group is known. At the end of a long morning diagnosing and treating acute respiratory infections, scabies, and other common conditions plaguing Port-au-Prince’s population, a young girl arrives with a too-small bundle swaddled in a towel.

Cuba Replaces Aeronautics Chief

The head of the Cuban Civil Aeronautics Institute is to be replaced, announced the Council of State on Monday. Brigade General Ramon Martinez will take over for General Rogelio Acevedo, the current president of the Institute. Martinez is the second in command at the Air Force.

Cuba’s Ghost Laws

The most frustrating thing is not being subjected to a law that one doesn’t know about, but being subjected to it even after finding out it doesn’t exist. Yet the immense majority of people in our country don’t ask where the laws appear. It’s enough to tell them: “You can’t do that” or “You can’t go into this.”

Cuba’s Hardest Rock

Dressed in black with chains hanging from their waists and necks, ready to writhe from side to side, the young lovers of the hardest strain of rock enjoyed their first Havana festival: Black Metal 6.6.6 FEST. (10 photos)

Cuba Hunger Striker Rejects Exile

The state news media in Cuba reported Monday on the case of dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on a hunger strike for 13 days and refuses to go into exile in Spain.

Cuba’s Chapman in Scoreless Debut

Southpaw Aroldis Chapman made his much awaited Major League Baseball debut on Monday in a spring training game against Kansas City. He pitched the third and fourth innings without allowing a run in the game won by Cincy 14-5.

Film Awarded in Cuba Wins Oscar

Three months ago Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella won the award for Best Director at the Havana Film Festival for “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in their eyes). On Monday, he won a prestigious Oscar in Hollywood for the Best Foreign Film.

US to Allow Cuba Personal Online Services

If these countries actually desire to use US Internet companies is another subject. In the case of Cuba, to date the island’s government has put it hopes on improving its Internet capacity and services via a fiber optic cable to be laid from Venezuela to Jamaica to Cuba.

Cuba: Fariñas responsible for health

Cuba holds opposition member Guillermo Fariñas responsible for his health and affirmed that he and the “unpatriotic persons, foreign diplomats and the media that manipulate him” should resolve the problem created by his hunger strike in demand for the release of political prisoners, according to a news item published today by the official Granma daily. “If he is alive today, it must be said, it is thanks to the qualified medical care he has received notwithstanding the fact that he is a mercenary.”

Cuba Playoffs Round 2 Starts Wed.

The Western Division playoffs between Havana Province and Industriales start Wednesday and Thursday with games one and two in San Jose de las Lajas, home of Havana Province, last year’s league champions. The Eastern Division playoff finals between Villa Clara, last year’s league runner-ups and Ciego de Avila open with games one and two on Thursday and Friday in Santa Clara, home of Villa Clara.