For the coup supporters and their international allies, it will be the date of reconciliation and the return to normality by the country. For the Resistance, however, it will mark the continuity of a coup-supporting dictatorial régime controlled by the military and factions that are attempting to absolve themselves of their crimes and to deepen the neoliberal economic model.
Read MoreHundreds of persons began being treated this morning in the fourth field hospital installed by the Cuban medical brigade in Haiti, this one in Croix des Bouquets, 10 miles from the center of Port-au-Prince, where a group of Cuban healthcare professionals are working together with Haitian students from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).
Read MoreIn 2009 emigrants were the second most important source of tourists for Cuba, with the arrival of 296,000 persons born in the country but residing abroad. Canada continues being the most important tourist market for Cuba, with more than 914,000 visitors, followed by Great Britain and Spain.
Read MoreA ledger book currency called the SUCRE took effect Wednesday among the countries belonging to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) and has a value of US $1.25, announced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Read MorePorfirio Lobo, who was sworn in Wednesday as president of Honduras, urged the people of his country and the international community to “forget the past” and move ahead towards reconciliation. Shortly after Lobo’s inauguration, Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted as president in a Jun. 28 coup, boarded a plane to the Dominican Republic, where he will stay briefly before settling in Mexico with his family.
Read MoreSenator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin democrat, wrote President Obama on Wednesday calling on him to end the US government funding of Radio and TV Marti, stations beamed illegally from the United States to Cuba.
Read MoreIf this conference translates into true dialogue, and not a monologue or secret meetings of the privileged, the forum will discuss issues of the normalization of immigration, which is a concern to most Cubans and whose reform is a matter under the exclusive authority (in the sense of power and capacity) of the Cuban state.
Read MoreA neighbor started calling Andrea del Sol “Persistent,” and the nickname stuck. Since 1998, she and her small team of women in Alamar (a large housing district on the outskirts of the Cuban capital) have put their energy behind a common purpose: “To change the order of things.”
Read MoreU.S. aid programs to finance the opposition in Cuba don’t have sufficient funds due to bureaucracy and political obstacles, reported IPS citing the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald on Tuesday. According to the source, the U.S. Agency for International Aid US-AID, which is responsible for the largest part of the financing, has not been asking for new initiatives to assign resources since March 2009.
Read MoreU.S. art gallery owner Gilbert Brownstone donated to Cuba works by important artists from the 20th century visual arts vanguard, such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Andy Warhol.
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