A total of 468 cases of influenza were reported in Cuba until this weekend, announced Luis Estruch, deputy minister of hygiene, epidemiology and microbiology of the Ministry of Public Health. According to the official, the A H1N1 virus has especially affected pregnant women, dozens of which are being treated in intensive therapy services.
Read MoreThe Honduras de facto government and the officers that put it in power celebrated the Day of the Soldier on Saturday with coup leader Micheletti heaping praise on the “courageous” military for perpetrating the coup that forced President Manuel Zelaya out of the country at gun point on June 28.
Read MoreFidel Castro expressed Cuba’s satisfaction with Rio de Janeiro being selected as the site of the 2016 Olympic Games. Only one other Latin American city, Mexico (1968), has ever been selected to host the event held every four years.
Read MoreImportant Cuban artists, such as orchestra director Zenaida Romeo, jazz pianist Chucho Valdés and painter Roberto Fabelo, attended a reception at the residence of Jonathan Farrar, head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, after years of distancing during the George W. Bush administration.
Read MoreThe New York Philharmonic decided to postpone its performances in Cuba due to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s refusal to authorize the orchestra sponsors’ trip to the island, announced Eric Latzky, vice president of communications.
Read MoreThe National Resistance Front Against the Coup d’Etat (FRN) in Honduras is carrying out a nationwide consultation among its members to establish its position with respect to the expected talks between ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the de facto government.
Read MoreDespite the clamp down on civil liberties imposed by the de facto government of Honduras, the different organizations that comprise the National Front Against the Coup kept up their street protests on Thursday.
Read MoreThe Costa Rican government named journalist and diplomat Jose Maria Penabad as its ambassador to Cuba, informed the minister of the presidency, Rodrigo Arias. Until earlier this year, Costa Rica, El Salvador and the United States were the only countries on the American continent without diplomatic relations with Cuba. Costa Rica had severed ties with Cuba back in 1961.
Read MoreEarly Wednesday morning, hundreds of soldiers and police arrived at the National Agrarian Institute and evicted the more than 50 persons belonging to farm organizations and Institute workers who for the last three months have occupied the installations demanding a return to order and democracy in the country.
Read MoreWith the US travel ban on Cuba persisting into the 10th month of the Obama administration, numerous groups demanding its repeal have called for a national action day today, Wednesday, to pressure Congress to approve legislation that has been sitting in committees for a good part of the year.
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