A barge carrying 800 tons of sugar sunk after colliding with a merchant ship in waters to the north of the central region of Cuba, the Ministry of Transportation reported today. There were no fatal victims or wounded in the accident.
Read MoreCuba got another win in the Men’s World Grand Champions Volleyball Cup on Sunday defeating previously undefeated Japan in straight sets (25-19, 25-20, 25-22) in Nagoya, Japan.
Read MoreThe Cuban Men’s Volleyball Team defeated Egypt three sets to two (25-17, 23-25, 25-14, 23-25 y 15-7) on Saturday and is now in third place with a 2-1 record in the six-team Gran Champion’s Cup being played in Japan. Cuba plays the host team on Sunday.
Read MoreA former official of the U.S. Department of State and his wife pleaded guilty to having carried out espionage for the Cuban government since the 1980s until 2007, U.S. homeland security attorney general David Kris announced in a communiqué. Kendall Myers was sentenced to life imprisonment while his wife will serve seven years in prison.
Read MoreThe supporters of lifting the ban stuck to arguments of the rights of US citizens to freely travel wherever they choose, pointing out that Cuba is the only country in the world where they cannot travel. These congress people argued that the issue at hand is not human rights in Cuba but rather the status of civil rights in a free nation that is currently applying a discriminatory law that allows a segment of the US population (Cuban-Americans) to travel to Cuba while prohibiting others.
Read MoreThe only way for all public services to be returned to the people is through a constitutional assembly and the reform of the Constitution with the direct participation of social and union constituencies. That’s why it’s necessary to first restore the democratic and constitutional order, so that the coup-backing sectors do not legitimize the coup through an illegitimate election and block us from transforming the country.
Read MoreMore than half a million persons have been vaccinated against the seasonal flu in Cuba since the start of the campaign last November 9, informed the Ministry of Public Health. The immunization includes persons over 75 years of age, young people aged between 20 and 24 suffering from severe asthma and diabetes, and patients with chronic kidney diseases undergoing dialysis and Hemodialysis.
Read MoreCuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who has received prizes in Europe and the United States, backed the lifting of the travel to Cuba ban for U.S. citizens, which was debated yesterday in the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee. In a message to Democratic legislator Howard Berman, Sánchez affirmed that the end of that restriction “could have better results in the democratization of Cuba than Raúl Castro’s indecisive measures.”
Read MoreCuba will begin in 2010 the clinical essays of a vaccine against pneumococcus, a pathogenic agent that causes pneumonia, sinusitis, peritonitis and meningitis, especially in immunodepressed persons, older persons and children, announced Concepción Campa, director of the Finlay Institute in Havana.
Read More“The travel ban is not a sanction against Cuba, it is a sanction against the U.S. people imposed by our own government,” said Democrat Bill Delahunt, one of the principal promoters of a change in relations with the island with a socialist system.
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