Cuba Renovates Ports for Greater Use
Cuba is carrying out a dredging program in its bays and the modernization of its port installations with the backing of Venezuela, China and Brazil
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Food Plant Reopens in Santiago de Cuba
Nine years after having stopped operations, the pasta and candy plant in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba reinitiated its productions as part of a state program to reactivate food processing industries.
Read MoreGalicia, Spain to Boost Cuba’s Cinema
Spain’s Galician Audiovisual Consortium will increase its support for cinema in Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela and Andalusia, as part of the Roots Program, by increasing financing in 2010 for co-productions and the holding of cycles with the benefited films.
Read MoreCuban Five Prisoners to be Resentenced
Three of the Cuban Five will be re-sentenced in the near future with the first being Antonio Guerrero on the morning of Tuesday October 13. The Cubans, accused of conspiring to commit espionage, have already been imprisoned for over 11 years in the US.
Read MoreSwine Flu Advances Cuba Ups Measures
Cuba is not exempt to the advance of the swine flu pandemic affecting l86 countries worldwide, notes the local press in a report stating that the country’s world recognized efforts in disease prevention puts it in a favorable position to confront the “complicated” situation.
Read MoreCuba-Venezuela Sea Cable in Motion
The installation of the underwater fiber-optic cable that will join Cuba and Venezuela will begin on October 14, informed Jesse Chacon, minister of Science, Technology and Basic Industries of Venezuela. The official said the new connection would be operating in two years.
Read MoreCuba’s Big-time Drug Seizures in 2009
Cuban authorities said Friday that they have captured nearly 2.2 million kilos of drugs in the first half of 2009. The major part of that amount was the result of operations by the Border Patrol Troops in the north eastern region of the Caribbean country.
Read MoreCuban Five Colloquium Set
More than 160 persons from some 20 countries will participate in the 5th International Colloquium Against Terrorism and for the Release of the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the United States, to be held in the eastern city of Holguín next November 19-23.
Read MoreHonduras Dialogue, Just Media Show?
A mixture of repression and conversations marked the first day of new attempt at dialogue in Honduras between representatives of deposed President Manuel Zelaya and those that carried out the military coup to remove him just over a hundred days ago.
Read MoreHonduras Talks Underway on Day 102
Talks began Wednesday between delegates of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, under international observation, to seek a solution to the crisis triggered by the June 28 coup.
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