The US Congress approved the lifting of restrictions imposed in 2005 by the George W. Bush administration on food sales to Cuba, reported the press in Washington. This measure will allow the island to again pay in cash while the merchandise is being transported and not through third country banks before the shipment of products.
Read MorePuerto Rico’s Calle 13 duo will give a concert in Cuba next March, announced its vocalist and composer René Pérez. The musicians did not get authorization from the U.S. government to travel to the island in December, where they would have presented the documentary Sin Mapa during the Havana Film Festival.
Read More“Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world,” Cuban expert Luis Bérriz said in an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital.
Read MorePepe gets up every day at five in the morning so he can use the bathroom before everyone else in the house does (three adults and a child), and he leaves before eight. His work, a cafeteria for construction workers, is four or five bus stops from his home. Most of the time he prefers to walk and gets to the job by nine o’clock at the latest.
Read MoreLeaders and top-level representatives of the nine Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) nations are in Havana or soon to arrive for a summit that gets underway on Sunday. The ALBA countries are about to launch a new currency called the “sucre” to facilitate regional exchange and reduce dependence on the US dollar for cooperation and trade.
Read MoreThe Havana Film Festival awards were announced on Saturday afternoon and the winning movies will get an extra showing on Sunday. “La teta asustada” a Peru-Spain co-production by director Claudia Llosa won the first prize for a full-length fiction film. The top prize for a documentary went to “La perdida” (Argentina-Spain) by Enrique Gabriel and Javier Angulo. The winning short fiction film went to “Para pedir perdon” (Brazil) by Ibere Carvalho.
Read MoreVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets on Saturday with former Cuban President Fidel Castro. Chavez arrived in Havana on Friday night to participate in a summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) which begins Sunday in the Cuban capital.
Read MoreMexican President Felipe Calderon will visit Cuba in the first semester of 2010, announced Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa. The visit put to rest the diplomatic differences related to Swine Flu. Espinosa met for three hours with Cuban President Raul Castro.
Read MoreCuba and Venezuela signed 285 collaboration projects worth US $3.18 billion, it was announced today during the tenth Joint Commission between the two nations, being held in Havana prior to the December 13-14 summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
Read MoreMexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa met in Havana on Friday with her Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez. Espinosa praised Cuba’s leadership in the development of regional integration efforts.
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