Though the resistance decided to leave the negotiating table, and continues mobilizing in the streets, the delegation of constitutionally elected president Manuel Zelaya Rosales announced the reaching of an agreement around a key point of the San Jose Agreement. This foresees the return of state powers to the administration in place prior to June 28. This implies Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement to the presidency of the republic.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and Japan signed a technical cooperation agreement to boost joint work and facilitate the Caribbean country’s access to Japanese aid.
Read MoreThe top echelons of the Young Communist League (UJC) removed its secretary general, Julio Martínez, and announced the holding of its 9th Congress on April 3 and 4, 2010. The new secretary general is Liudmila Alamo Dueñas, who had been the second secretary of the organization.
Read MoreThe U.S. blockade prevented the IBM Company from sponsoring one of the regional stages of the International Programming Collegiate Competition, carried out by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), to be held in the Cuban capital on October 22-24.
Read MoreThe Espacio Laical Catholic magazine expressed its concern about the tensions in the popular debate convened by President Raul Castro between those in favor of changes in Cuban society and the sectors opposed to the transformations in an editorial released on its web page.
Read MoreThe U.S. University of Columbia regretted that the Cuban government did not grant an exit permit to blogger Yoani Sánchez, who should have received during a ceremony in New York a mention of the Maria Moors Cabot prizes from that centre of higher learning.
Read MoreSpanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Miguel Angel Moratinos will not meet with representatives of the Cuban dissidence during his upcoming visit to Cuba on October 18 and 19. The Spanish FM plans to meet with his counterpart Bruno Rodríguez and it is possible that he will hold talks with President Raúl Castro and his brother Fidel, whose health has improved considerably in recent months.
Read MoreThe 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.
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