Over the weekend, Cuban President Fidel Castro published his third commentary since the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. The senior advisor to the government of his brother Raul Castro writes on the work of the Cuban medical brigades including the participation of doctors from Haiti and other countries.
Read MoreThe popular Cuban salsa group Los Van Van were schedule to arrive Monday in Miami, where they will begin on January 28 the prelude to their tour of the United Status, which will begin in May, announced the bands director, Juan Formell. The musician said he saw little possibility that the concert will be boycotted by anti-Castro groups in Florida and thanked Washington for the speed with which they were given the visas.
Read MoreThe Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) asked the UN to assume the coordination of the international aid for the recovery of Haiti, devastated by last January 12 earthquake. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other ALBA leaders have criticized the motives of the United States military in the post-earthquake relief effort in Haiti.
Read MoreRussia’s state-run United Grains Company will send 100,000 tons of wheat as humanitarian aid to Cuba starting next February, announced Sergei Levin, the company’s executive president. Tropical Cuba is not a wheat producing nation but bread is a staple in the islanders’ diet.
Read MoreMore than 450 Cubans residing in 42 countries will participate starting next Wednesday in the “Meeting against the U.S. Blockade on Cuba and in Defense of National Sovereignty”, convened by the Cuban government, announced Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodríguez.
Read MoreThe Norwegian embassy in Cuba and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment signed an agreement through which the European nation gave some US $885,000 to the island for the purchase and sending of medicines and other necessary supplies for the work of the Cuban medical brigade in Haiti.
Read MoreThe Pan American Health Organization praised Cuba’s medical collaboration in Haiti during a visit by its director Mirta Roses to one of three hospitals in the capital where the Cuban doctors are attending the population. Referring to Cuba’s longstanding medical aid program in Haiti, Roses said “since the Cubans were already in Haiti before the earthquake they have an advantage.”
Read MoreAre we Cubans now divided between those who are “prepared politically” and those who are not? Are we in the presence of a new type of elite, a new class, a new form of exclusion? Is it that we no longer exclude people on the basis of race, gender, age, sexual orientation or social origin, but on the basis of political preparation? And what does having a good political preparation consist of exactly? Who determines which person has adequate preparation in this sphere?
Read MoreThe US government’s Voice of America acknowledged Friday the efforts of more than 400 Cuban doctors and health workers in Haiti. The move could lead to a collaboration with medicines needed at several field hospitals set up by the Cubans for treating the earthquake victims.
Read More“Visiting unhappy Cuba is especially thought-provoking for anyone familiar with its unhappy neighbors,” writes Stephen Kinzer for guardian.co.uk.
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