Cuban President Raul Castro advised the United States and “the anti-patriots in their pay” (opposition members) to stop “the provocations of all types” in his speech to the National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament).
Read MoreCuba’s Minister of Economy Marino Murillo announced in his speech to the Cuban parliament a reduction in “social spending since the economy can not withstand its substantial amounts.” “Experiments are being carried out and work is going on in others to lighten the burden for the state in some services provided.”
Read MoreCuban singer-songwriter Jorge García died yesterday in the Cuban capital at the age of 50, announced sources close to his family. With a professional career of more than two decades, this artist linked since he was very young to the New Song Movement.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro affirmed at the end of the plenary session of the National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament) that “there can not be space for risks in improvisation and hastiness” in the “updating of the Cuban economic model.”
Read MoreThe bureaucratic apparatuses, interested in maintaining centralized control, will oppose the development of proposals for self-management, which would develop labor and social collectives to obtain their own resources. However, this would run counter to the general strategic line of the country’s leadership, which -still with its contradictions- is beginning to lean toward the decentralization of the control of resources and decisions.
Read MoreCuban left-handed fast ball pitcher Aroldis Chapman is close to signing an eight-figure contract to pitch in the US Major Leagues. Chapman, 21, pitched for Holguin in the Cuban Baseball League and was a starter on the island’s team at the second World Baseball Classic last March. His fast ball has been tagged at 102 MPH and he has shown his stuff in workouts to over a dozen MLB teams.
Read MoreIt’s increasingly clear that what has occurred in Honduras marks a setback – whatever might happen before January 27. Taking office on that date will be Porfirio Lobo Sosa, the right-wing winner of the dubious presidential elections that left this Central American country with almost no country in the world recognizing it.
Lobo Sosa will begin his term in the aftermath of the June 28 coup that turned the clock back on the consolidation of the democracy on the Latin American continent.
Read MoreFor years, deserved tributes have been made to those unjustly killed medical students who didn’t have a chance to defend themselves nor a way of preventing their murders. But the black members of the Abakua association did indeed have a choice. They had the option of not getting involved with the incident, of not challenging the colonial authorities – yet they decided to act.
Read MoreThe OMNI-Zona Franca poetry performance collective made its traditional pilgrimage on Thursday to the Sanctuary of San Lazaro, in the Havana suburb of El Rincon, during which time there were no reported attempts to interfere with or obstruct them. On December 11, the OMNI-Zona Franca collective was expelled from its headquarters in the Alamar Gallery under government order.
Read MoreMartinez spoke to quash rumors on the island on an imminent change of local currency. Cuba currently has two national currencies in circulation the CUC, that equals US $1.25, and the CUP regular peso which is worth 5 cents of a US dollar. Most Cubans hope to see a single currency that is the same one that people earn with their salaries. At present they get paid in CUP but must purchase numerous basic consumer goods in the CUC hard currency.
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