The end of restrictions on Cuban-Americans travel to Cuba and their sending of remittances to the island, announced by the Barack Obama administration last April and put into effect last Thursday, “is a measure awaited by all and, moreover, necessary,” said Dionisio García, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba.
Read MoreThe Cuban Meteorological Institute stated early Friday that it would no longer monitor what was tropical storm Erika and which has dropped to a dissipating tropical depression zone.
Read MoreA US Federal judge awarded the mother of “political prisoner” Oscar Rodriguez Saludes a total of US $27.5 million to be paid by the Cuban Communist Party and government for emotional damages due her son’s jailing in a crackdown against “dissidents” in 2003. Activist anti-Cuban revolution judges have used such suits as a platform for allocating huge sums to the plaintiffs to try and complicate any efforts to improve bilateral relations.
Read MoreCuba and China this week added new stitches to strengthen the diplomatic and commercial relations that have existed between the two nations for close to half a century. These ties have been described by island officials as strategic and a “model” for what bilateral ties should be in the current international context. Cuba was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with China, on September 28, 1960. Subsequently, they distanced themselves at times due to the postures of their governments over varying directions pursued by members of the socialist camp at that time.
Read MorePlacido Domingo, the renowned Spanish tenor, threw his support Thursday behind Columbian singer Juanes and his plans to stage a Peace without Borders concert in Havana on September 20. Domingo called Juanes “a very courageous person” and praised his “positive attitude” for going ahead with the concert.
Read MoreUS President Obama announced five months ago that he would allow Cuban-Americans to travel freely to Cuba as well as send more money to family members. It took the US treasury department until today to put the order into effect.
Read MoreThe Cuban Meteorological Institute continues to track what was Tropical Storm Erika as it moves nearer Puerto Rico. As of Thursday evening the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression and the tendency is for further weakening.
Read MoreFrustrated by the continued intransigence of the Honduran regime that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. State Department followed through Wednesday on threats to cut off aid to Honduras.
Read MoreFresh off his week long visit to Cuba, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson sees negotiations taking place in 2010 between the United States and Cuba on the lifting of the nearly 50-year economic embargo Washington has maintained against the island.
Read MoreThe president of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto said in Havana on Tuesday that he would bring up the Cuban Five case in his speech this month marking the end of his period in the one year post. D’Escoto will call on US President Obama to rectify the injustice and immediately and make real his campaign promises for change in US-Cuba policy.
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