The Cuban Council of Churches will hold an open air religious service at the Pedro Marrero soccer stadium in Havana on July 11th, announced Marcial Hernandez, the organization’s president. It is estimated that some 600,000 of the island’s 11.2 million inhabitants belong to Protestant dominations, reported IPS.
Read MoreFaced with the impact of the global economic crisis on an economy highly dependent on imports, the Cuban Baseball Federation is looking to reactivate the local sports industry to cut imports of equipment from countries such as China, reported IPS.
Read MoreCuban parliament speaker Ricardo Alarcón affirmed in statements to CNN that “it is inconceivable, impossible, to imagine normal relations between the United States and Cuba” while the Cuban Five remain imprisoned (since 1998) in the U.S., convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
Read MoreA Cuban edition of Eduardo Galeano’s book of vignettes “Patas arribas. La escuela del mundo al reves,” will be presented this Saturday by the Cuban Book Institute. Galeano, a much published Uruguayan author, gained best seller status when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave Barack Obama a copy of his classic “The Open Veins of Latin America.”
Read MoreOn a daily basis and in primetime spots, Cuban television has begun featuring the consequences of the economic crisis that is shaking up the world. On the island itself, there has begun discreet talk about how the effects of that downturn is beginning to be felt in an increasingly noticeable way.
Read MoreCuba has a very efficient system to counteract drug trafficking, affirmed Bernard Leroy, higher juridical advisor of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, in statements to the press during a regional seminar on drug control being held in Havana, IPS reports on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of State kept Cuba on the list of 17 countries in the world that do not comply with the minimum parameters of the fight against human trafficking, reported IPS on Wednesday. Much human trafficking from Cuba originates from traffickers based in Florida or Mexico, often connected to the powerful Miami exile organizations.
Read MoreThe first museum in Latin America dedicated to the Slave Route was inaugurated in the San Severino Fortress in the city of Matanzas. Slavery was officially abolished in Cuba in 1886.
Read MoreFour new cases of the influenza AH1N1 were confirmed in Cuba by the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine, with which the total amount of cases detected on the island is now 13, announced the Ministry of Public Health in an official note on Tuesday evening.
Read MoreCuban authorities said they decided to close the huge Cubalse holding company “to reduce expenses, increase negotiating power, concentrate the administration of service providing entities, and in order to carry these out with greater efficiency.”
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