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Credit Suisse Fined over Cuba Embargo

The US government levied a huge fine of US $536 million on Credit Suisse Bank for carrying out transactions that violate the US embargoes against Iran, Libya, Sudan, Burma and Cuba.

Reduced Housing Plan Nearly Reached

Cuban authorities hope to complete a reduced housing construction plan by the end of the year. At the end of November, 29,703 houses were completed of the programmed 32,000. Cuba suffers from a prolonged housing shortage especially in the capital. Before three hurricanes caused severe devastation in the second half of 2008, the new housing construction goal had been 100,000 per year.

Int. Support for Cuban Agriculture

International cooperation is supporting more than 60 production projects of the non-governmental National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), announced Mario La O Sosa, head of the International Relations and Cooperation Projects Department of that organization. According to the official, that backing “has allowed for the implementation of irrigation systems, the repair of machinery and technological transfer.

Cuba Confronts Beach Erosion

Specialists at the Centre for Research on Coastal Ecosystems in Cayo Coco, on the northern coast of central Cuba, are building walkways on pivots from the tourist installations to the beaches to avoid erosion in these areas, where the shoreline has retreated up to three meters, announced Adán Zúñiga, director of that scientific institution.

VP Lazo at UN Climate Conference

Vice President Esteban Lazo heads the Cuban delegation to the 15th Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which begins Thurday in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Chicago to Get Guantanamo Prisoners

The U.S. government will transfer to a prison in Chicago dozens of prisoners it has in the Guantánamo Naval Base detention center, in eastern Cuba, reported IPS citing official sources in Washington. President Barack Obama promised to close down that prison in 2010.

Eighty-three arrests on Human Rights Day

Cuban authorities arrested 83 persons on December 10, the majority of them at their homes, during International Human Rights Day, said Elizardo Sánchez, president of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. That day the Ladies in White, wives and relatives of political prisoners, were also surrounded by government followers when they marched through the streets of the island’s capital.

Clinton Remains Hard on Cuba

By Circles Robinson HAVANA TIMES, Dec. 15 – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton questioned the human rights situation in

Cuba Expands Tourism in Protected Area

Cuban authorities expanded the number of rooms of the María la Gorda International Scuba Diving Center and the installations of Los Morros de la Piedra Marina in the Biosphere Reserve of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, in the western tip of the Caribbean country, announced Julio Camacho, director of the Office for the Development of that island.

ALBA Summit in Cuba concludes

The 8th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) will conclude today at the Cuban capital’s Convention Centre, reported IPS. The delegations of the nine member countries of this regional integration mechanism focused their discussions on subjects such as the global economic crisis and climate change.