New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is in Cuba this week to seek a market for his state’s agricultural products and to promote cultural exchange. Allowing Cuba to export to the US goes beyond the talks since the US economic blockade on the island totally forbids it.
Read MoreCuban Change Generation Group, an organization of the Cuban community in the United States, declared it was in favor of the Peace without Borders concert that Colombian singer Juanes will give in the island’s capital on September 20. The concert has been severely questioned by the anti-Castro sector based in Miami.
Read MoreCuba is getting ready to host the 15th Meeting and Incentive Travel Market (MITM) Regional Tourism Fair November 18 and 19 at the Hotel Meliá Cohiba in Havana.
Read MoreCuban customs authorities have increased the control of Cuban cigars leaving the country with the introduction of a new resolution. Cuban cigars have suffered from falsifications at an international level, in addition to a black market in Cuba, stoked by the economic crisis.
Read MoreSome 9,000 Cuban tourism workers, a tenth of that sector’s employees, were relocated in other types of work because of the low season and the effect of the international financial crisis.
Read MoreCuba’s state-run television showed a video on Sunday where former Cuban President Fidel Castro appears during a meeting last Saturday with young Venezuelan law graduates, reported IPS. No mention was made if the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution intends to resume public life.
Read More“The Inter-American Human Rights Commission could verify that the rupture of constitutional order caused by the coup has been accompanied by a heavy military presence in different spheres of civilian life, the suspension of guarantees through the implementation of a curfew that does not meet the standards of the Inter-American System.” The Commission indicated that it has received hundreds of complaints and taken several testimonies on violations of human rights committed after the military-civilian coup against President Manuel Zelaya on June 28.
Read MoreA press photograph of their meeting showed Castro looking fit and sporting a white short sleeve shirt instead of the Adidas work out uniform he has often worn since convalescing from serious intestinal surgery three years ago.
Read MoreAnti-Cuba activist judges are helping make it difficult for any US government to lift the 50-year economic blockade on Cuba. By awarding huge sums in suits against Cuba the courts try to tie the administrations hands on foreign policy.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of hullabaloo these days over a concert with popular Colombian-born singer Joanes set for September 20 at Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution. Those who dream of a pre-revolutionary Cuba are in rage that a fellow Latino who lives in Miami would dare to perform in the “communist” country they would love to destroy.
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