Miguel Angel Moratinos, the foreign minister of Spain, is in Cuba to boost bilateral relations. Moratinos visited the island two and a half years ago in what began a thawing of strained relations between Cuba and European Union.
Read MoreCuba defeated team USA on Saturday night in four sets to win the NORCECA Men’s Continental Championship and the last remaining slot to the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup in Japan on November 18-23.
Read MoreNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrived in Cuba Friday to get a look at the island’s acclaimed civil defense system. His first visit to Cuba comes four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged his city.
Read MoreTen Latin American and Caribbean nations decided on Friday at a meeting in Cochabamba, Bolivia to forgo the US dollar for a new regional trade currency to be called the sucre. In other agenda business the ALBA countries renewed their call for an end to the half-century US blockade on Cuba; as well as agreed on sanctions against the de facto rulers of Honduras.
Read MoreIt seems to be an all-too-common story these days. Cuba’s proud national team has yet again ended its quest a single painful step short of the coveted top prize in the latest international baseball tournament.
Read MoreCuban President Raúl Castro is willing to risk unpopular measures to free the state from its excessive burden of subsidies and for-free services, as part of a program to adjust public expenditure to shrunken government revenues and balance the budget.
Read MoreThough the resistance decided to leave the negotiating table, and continues mobilizing in the streets, the delegation of constitutionally elected president Manuel Zelaya Rosales announced the reaching of an agreement around a key point of the San Jose Agreement. This foresees the return of state powers to the administration in place prior to June 28. This implies Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement to the presidency of the republic.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and Japan signed a technical cooperation agreement to boost joint work and facilitate the Caribbean country’s access to Japanese aid.
Read MoreThe top echelons of the Young Communist League (UJC) removed its secretary general, Julio Martínez, and announced the holding of its 9th Congress on April 3 and 4, 2010. The new secretary general is Liudmila Alamo Dueñas, who had been the second secretary of the organization.
Read MoreThe U.S. blockade prevented the IBM Company from sponsoring one of the regional stages of the International Programming Collegiate Competition, carried out by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), to be held in the Cuban capital on October 22-24.
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