Lifting the travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans and their ability to send remittances or packages to Cuba repairs “a grave injustice” to that population but has “a very limited reach” as far as rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, noted Cuban representatives at the United Nations.
Read MoreThe Cuban government opened a new popular debate to discuss the country’s problems and define measures to help it come out of the long economic crisis. The discussion, which will be based on a yet to be disclosed “Study Material”, and will take place at workplaces and educational centers, the cells of the ruling Communist Party and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, the island’s largest neighborhood organization.
Read MoreEcuadorian President Rafael Correa travels to Cuba on Tuesday to have knee surgery, informed the office of the presidency of the South American nation. In August, Correa, one of Cuba’s political allies in the region, traveled to the island for a vacation.
Read MoreThe United Nations Development Program congratulated Cuban authorities for advances in eradicating polluting substances in the atmosphere. The island eliminated its imports of chlorofluorocarbons and methyl bromide, which deteriorate the ozone layer, reported IPS.
Read MoreCuba was held hitless for five innings on Monday by New York Yankees prospect Elvin Orozco pitching for Nicaragua, but in the blink of an eye Michel Enriquez singled and Yulieski Gourriel homered in what proved all that was needed to win the 4-1 game.
Read MoreU.S. President Barack Obama signed today the continuation of the embargo against Cuba for another year, “in the national interest of the United States,” according to a memorandum sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. Obama is the 11th consecutive US administration to maintain an economic stranglehold on Cuba hoping to force political changes on the island by creating economic difficulties for the population.
Read MoreArtists from Brazil, Uruguay, Panama and Spain will participate at the 5th Arts and Health Biennial that opens on Tuesday and runs through October 16 in Old Havana.
Read MoreThree men accused of plotting to blow up several planes in the UK were sentenced to long prison terms on Monday. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in Miami, two men who bragged about bombing a passenger plane that killed 72 persons are free to continue conspiring to commit more terrorist acts.
Read MoreCuba dedicated 12 hours of Sunday to mourning of its loss of Vice-president Juan Almeida, a commandant of the Revolution and comrade in arms of Fidel and Raúl Castro in the 1953 assault on the Moncada Barracks, the initiation of armed struggle that triumphed in this country in 1959.
Read MoreCuba won a lackluster 6-0 game Sunday over Great Britain in the two teams opening games of the second round of the World Cup Baseball Championships being played in The Netherlands and Italy. Freddy Alvarez went the route for Cuba allowing two hits while walking three and striking out nine.
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