The National Front Against the Coup in Honduras left the negotiations table on Wednesday unwilling to concede its agenda that includes a constitutional assembly that would draft a new constitution. The group that has kept up protests since the June 28 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya issued a communiqué on Tuesday.
Read MoreIn an atmosphere of generalized distrust, the talks in Honduras resumed on Tuesday. In the first of three sessions, the delegation of the de facto government and representatives of President Manuel Zelaya (including a member of the National Front Against the Coup d’état) have reached some agreements on the basic points of the San Jose Agreement.
Read MoreAntonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five, detained under unclear circumstances back in l998 and imprisoned ever since in the United States, had his sentence reduced Tuesday from life imprisonment to 22 years. Guerrero, 50, received a life sentence at the politically charged trial that took place in 2001 in hostile Miami. He was accused, as the others, of conspiring to commit espionage, among a host of offenses that were never proven.
Read MoreThe construction industry in Cuba lacks sufficient labor force, a problem it has tried to resolve through the deployment of personnel mainly from the country’s eastern provinces. Around 15 per cent of the total labor force in the state controlled industry is made up by contingents staying in more than 150 camps, far away from their places of residence
Read MoreThe de facto government in Honduras is imposing its own agenda, ratcheting up repression and seeking to delay any resolution of the crisis. The rel-UITA website brings us the following report on Monday with photos by Giorgio Trucchi.
Read MoreWhile the Cuban government has intensified its protests against the U.S. embargo, typically hostile signals between the two nations have been mixed with hints of a more relaxed tone since U.S. President Barack Obama took office.
Read MoreThe most famous Cuban blogger, Yoani Sanchez, continues to be allowed to publish her Generation Y page with her acrid criticisms of the Cuban government. However, she is repeatedly denied an exit visa to receive awards in countries such as Spain and the United States.
Read MoreCuba is carrying out a dredging program in its bays and the modernization of its port installations with the backing of Venezuela, China and Brazil
Read MoreNine years after having stopped operations, the pasta and candy plant in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba reinitiated its productions as part of a state program to reactivate food processing industries.
Read MoreSpain’s Galician Audiovisual Consortium will increase its support for cinema in Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela and Andalusia, as part of the Roots Program, by increasing financing in 2010 for co-productions and the holding of cycles with the benefited films.
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