The Cuban government sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanding that the United States grant a humanitarian visa to Adriana Perez, wife of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five. The Cubans have been imprisoned in the US for nearly 11 years after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and other charges. Perez has been constantly denied the right to visit her husband.
Read MoreUN General Assembly President, Miguel D’Escoto, begins a working visit to Cuba on Tuesday, during which he will meet with representatives of the island’s government.
Read MoreWu Bangguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and president of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Assembly, will carry out a visit to Cuba starting today through Thursday invited by of Ricardo Alarcon, speaker of the island’s parliament.
Read MoreCuban elementary to high school students are back to the classroom on Tuesday, in a school year marked by significant changes in the educational system as the country tries to restore one of the so-called pillars of the Cuban Revolution. The Education minister said that school supplies, including uniforms, notebooks, course books and some 30 other articles, are being provided by the ministry.
Read MoreColombian singer Juanes will not have foreign sponsors for his Sept. 20 Peace Concert in the Cuban capital, due to “tremendous pressure” surrounding the project, informed IPS on Monday. Cuban artists Silvio Rodriguez, Amaury Perez, Carlos Varela, Van Van and Equis Alfonso are planning to represent Cuba on the same venue at the Plaza of the Revolution before an expected crowd of several hundred thousand.
Read MoreJuanes much talked about Peace without Borders concert in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution is now only three weeks away and according to the chief protagonist plans continue full speed ahead despite threats on his life.
Read MoreThe situation in Honduras, two months after the coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, continues to be top of the news in Cuba. The local media stresses the daily protests against the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti, which they denounce for the violent repression carried out against the demonstrators.
Read MoreNormalizing relations between Cuba and the United States – separated by an almost a half century of conflict – will take time, but there is potential and a favorable atmosphere for them coming together, concluded on Friday an influential American politician who visited Havana for five days.
Read MoreWith a lack of available hands in the countryside, the harvest will require the participation of families and communities of the Sierra Maestra Mountains as well as mass mobilizations with the precision demanded at each stage of the harvest.
Read MoreThe drilling of a 5,904-metrer-long oil well, the largest in the history of Cuba, concluded in the province of Matanzas. The state-run Cubapetróleo was in charge of the project, which began last January, and tests will be carried out before starting the extraction of heavy crude.
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