Cuban President Raul Castro and his Paraguayan counterpart Fernando Lugo met on Wednesday in Havana to discuss bilateral relations as well as regional and global issues. Upon arriving to Cuba on Tuesday, Lugo thanked the Caribbean nation for the hundreds of scholarships granted to Paraguayan young people studying at the Latin American School of Medicine based in Havana.
Read MoreThe ALBA played a key role at the meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in San Pedro Sula this week where it strongly supported a consensus agreement reached on Wednesday to lift the suspension that ejected Cuba from the hemispheric organization back in 1962.
Read MoreHillary Clinton left San Pedro de Sula, Honduras for Egypt on Tuesday wondering whether her lobbying effort on behalf of the Obama administration to keep Cuba suspended from the Organization of American States (OAS) would work. It didn’t.
Read MoreCuban authorities ordered the dissolution in 90 days of the Cubalse Corporation, one of the island’s largest state companies. Founded in 1962, Cubalse is devoted to providing services to foreign firms and embassies and to the collection of hard currency through chains of stores, cafeterias, as well as car sales and apartment rentals, reported IPS citing the accredited press in the Caribbean country.
Read MoreThe United States will not back Cuba’s return to the Organization of American States (OAS), since this includes obeying the principles of democracy and human rights established in the charter, affirmed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday.
Read MoreThe new president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, announced the immediate reestablishment of diplomatic, commercial and cultural relations with Cuba during his inauguration in San Salvador on Monday, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looking on.
Read MoreParaguayan President Fernando Lugo arrives in Cuba on Tuesday where he will meet with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro. Lugo also plans to visit with some 600 students from his country who are studying medicine on the island on scholarships provided by the Cuban government.
Read More“Just as they relaxed the restrictions on Cuban Americans just before the Summit of the Americas, now they are offering migration talks just before the OAS meeting,” said William LeoGrande, a Cuba expert at American University. “It seems clear that they’re trying to inoculate themselves from criticism by Latin Americans about Cuba policy and at the same time avoid picking political fights with (anti-Castro) forces at home. It’s calculated,” he noted.
Read MoreThe new president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, is expected to announce today during his inauguration the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. The United States will now be the only country in the hemisphere without official ties with the Caribbean island nation.
Read MoreThe governments of Cuba and the United States will resume talks on migratory issues, suspended by the Bush administration in 2003, announced a Department of State spokesperson. Cuban President Raul Castro has repeatedly said that his country is willing to hold talks with the Obama administration to improve US-Cuban relations, as long as they take place without pre-conditions and in a climate of mutual respect.
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