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The huge US conglomerate General Electric (GE) has told its sub-subsidiary Banco de America Central (BAC) that it can no longer carry out transactions with Cuba or Cubans.

Cuban President Raul Castro arrived in Quito, Ecuador on Sunday to attend today’s swearing in of President Rafael Correa for a second term. On his first night in the South American country Raul attended a Political Council meeting of representatives of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).

HAVANA TIMES, August 10 – A total of 24,335 Cubans have formally solicited Spanish citizenship at the European country’s embassy in Havana. Spain’s “Historic Memory Law” offers Spanish nationality to the grandchildren of that country’s emigrants.

Cuba’s new comptrollers office, created by the legislature, will receive and follow up on complaints filed by citizens on the misuse of public resources and other illegalities and acts of corruption, said Jose Luis Toledo Santander, president of the parliament’s Constitutional and Juridical Affairs Committee.

Cuban President Raul Castro swore in 38 new ambassadors at the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana. Cuba has diplomatic relations with 181 countries, including all those in the Americas except the United States.

A race involving two cargo trucks that transported passengers today caused the death of six persons and another 12 were wounded in the easternmost Cuban municipality of Maisí, when one of the two vehicles drove off the road, reported IPS, citing local authorities.

The Ministers of the Environment of Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba will sign an accord on Friday in the Dominican city of Barahona that creates a Plan of Action of the Caribbean Biological Corridor. The initiative has support from the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the UN Environmental Program (UNEP).