The president of the Palestine National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, will arrive tonight in the Cuban capital, where he will attend a solidarity ceremony with his country at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and will sign agreements in the areas of culture, sports and higher education.
Read MoreYulieski Gonzalez pitched brilliantly for eight innings and Hector Olivera batted in three runs Friday to give Cuba a 5-1 win over Canada and a ticket to the finals in the 2009 World Cup Baseball Tournament being played in Italy. The islanders’ rivals on Sunday are none other than the defending champion Team USA.
Read MoreU.S. citizens of Cuban descent are once again free to travel to Cuba and send an unlimited amount of money to their relatives on the island, but for the most part U.S. policy toward the communist nation hasn’t changed under President Barack Obama. The U.S. State Department continues to list Cuba as one of its four officially designated state sponsors of terrorism.
Read MoreThe government of Venezuela will open tomorrow its first “Peace Base” in Cuba, a center “for debating ideas on the situation in Latin America, to reject violence and the installation of U.S. military bases in South America.”
Read MoreCuba confirmed today its participation in the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, in which it will have a 500-square-meter stand with a display of its principal products and its culture, reported IPS. An architect and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce will arrive in October to that Chinese city to start the assembly of the Cuban pavilion.
Read MoreThe governments of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) expressed their support for the return to Honduras of President Manuel Zelaya. “It follows the decisions approved by the ALBA, the United Nations General Assembly, the Organization of American States… and smoothes the path for the restoration of Honduran democracy,” states a communiqué released by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.
Read MoreThe final game of the 2009 World Cup that most Cubans want to see would be a rematch between their squad and the 2007 champion team USA that defeated them. On Thursday the two group leaders meet in a third round game that will possibly get repeated on Sunday for the title.
Read MoreThousands of Hondurans flocked to businesses in the capital Wednesday to stock up on food and gas after the de facto government temporarily lifted the curfew in place since ousted President Manuel Zelaya surreptitiously returned to the country on Monday.
Read MoreThe Cuban press continues to keep a close watch on events taking place in Honduras. Since the coup on June 28 that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Cuban authorities have called it a dangerous return to the era of military dictatorships that swept Central and South America. President Zelaya is held up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, surrounded by the military that have imposed a state of siege and sent tanks out onto the streets to try and disband supporters of the deposed leader.
Read MoreFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro had words of praise for US President Obama on Tuesday for “having the courage of no other US president to say” what he did about the need to act to detain climate change. Obama spoke on the eve of the UN General Assembly meeting.
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