Even though the half-century US blockade on Cuba is still in tact and ordinary US citizens are forbidden by their government from visiting the neighboring Caribbean island, the military of the two countries have quietly worked together to avoid a possible conflict in Cuba’s far eastern province.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has decided to decentralize expenditures in hard currency for imports, which will now be managed by the individual ministries instead of a single centralized super account, reported Mexico’s La Jornada newspaper on Monday.
Read MoreCuban agricultural authorities have delivered in usufruct just under 670,000 hectares of land, in compliance with Decree Law 259, which last year established the granting of idle state land to cooperatives and persons interested in making them produce.
Read MoreDeposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said the talks with the de facto regime that ousted him in late June were over and that he planned to return to his country. But Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who has brokered the talks, asked for more time for the negotiations, and warned of the risks of violence.
Read MoreCuba renewed its call on Sunday for the Obama administration to “stop supporting” the de facto government in Honduras noting the tacit military support being giving the coup. Cuban leaders have pointed out that the continued military presence of the US in Honduras says a lot in itself about the coup.
Read MoreThe Cuban Men’s Volleyball team has won its division in the 2009 World Volleyball League and now heads into the tough six team second round to be played in Belgrade, Serbia on July 22-26.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro begins an official two-day visit to Namibia on Sunday on the heels of attending the Non Aligned Movement summit in Egypt and visiting Algeria.
Read MoreOn their trek across the United States, members of the project Pastors for Peace made a stop at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara, California to speak about their journey and its purpose. Motivation for the Cuba caravan is rooted in what participants consider an unjust and immoral U.S. foreign policy.
Read MoreThe Royal Ballet concludes its five performance tour in Cuba on Saturday with a second show at the sold out 5,000 seat Karl Marx Theater in Havana.
Read MoreThe disclosure requirement is one of the ways that the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) enforces the decades old travel ban that prohibits -under threat of heavy fines- ordinary US citizens from visiting neighboring Cuba and spending money there.
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