The construction industry in Cuba lacks sufficient labor force, a problem it has tried to resolve through the deployment of personnel mainly from the country’s eastern provinces. Around 15 per cent of the total labor force in the state controlled industry is made up by contingents staying in more than 150 camps, far away from their places of residence
Read MoreThe de facto government in Honduras is imposing its own agenda, ratcheting up repression and seeking to delay any resolution of the crisis. The rel-UITA website brings us the following report on Monday with photos by Giorgio Trucchi.
Read MoreWhile the Cuban government has intensified its protests against the U.S. embargo, typically hostile signals between the two nations have been mixed with hints of a more relaxed tone since U.S. President Barack Obama took office.
Read MoreThe most famous Cuban blogger, Yoani Sanchez, continues to be allowed to publish her Generation Y page with her acrid criticisms of the Cuban government. However, she is repeatedly denied an exit visa to receive awards in countries such as Spain and the United States.
Read MoreCuba is carrying out a dredging program in its bays and the modernization of its port installations with the backing of Venezuela, China and Brazil
Read MoreNine years after having stopped operations, the pasta and candy plant in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba reinitiated its productions as part of a state program to reactivate food processing industries.
Read MoreSpain’s Galician Audiovisual Consortium will increase its support for cinema in Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela and Andalusia, as part of the Roots Program, by increasing financing in 2010 for co-productions and the holding of cycles with the benefited films.
Read MoreThree of the Cuban Five will be re-sentenced in the near future with the first being Antonio Guerrero on the morning of Tuesday October 13. The Cubans, accused of conspiring to commit espionage, have already been imprisoned for over 11 years in the US.
Read MoreCuba is not exempt to the advance of the swine flu pandemic affecting l86 countries worldwide, notes the local press in a report stating that the country’s world recognized efforts in disease prevention puts it in a favorable position to confront the “complicated” situation.
Read MoreThe installation of the underwater fiber-optic cable that will join Cuba and Venezuela will begin on October 14, informed Jesse Chacon, minister of Science, Technology and Basic Industries of Venezuela. The official said the new connection would be operating in two years.
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