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Brazil Cuts Funding for Nicaragua’s Tumarin Hydropower Plant

Brazil’s federal budget watchdog, the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil (TCU) has decided to suspend new funding to State-controlled Electrobras for constructing the Tumarin hydropower plant in Nicaragua, after having discovered a number of “irregularities” in the process.

The President’s Birthday: Cuba’s Raul Castro Turns 85

With little noise in the media, Cuban President Raul Castro turns 85 on Friday and is approaching the end of his mandate, scheduled for 2018.

Cuba TV Analyst Taladrid in Miami

TV analyst Reinaldo Taladrid, one of Cuba’s fiercest critics and voices against exiles in Miami and Cuban American politicians, is currently in… Miami. Taladrid’s visit to a house in Coral Gables was reported on Tuesday on social media.

Havana Weather for June 2-8

Expect warm days this week, with partly cloudy skies and some rain and isolated thunderstorms in the afternoon.

OAS to Consider Rupture in the Constitutional Order in Venezuela

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, called for an urgent meeting of the Permanent Council to discuss the situation in Venezuela, invoking the Democratic Charter.

Ex-spy Gerardo Hernandez Gets Academic Post

The man who once led the spy ring Red Avispa (Wasp Network) in the south of Florida and is today a national hero, has received an important academic role from Raul Castro’s government.

US Court to Listen to the Case of Cuban Rafters who Landed on a US Lighthouse

A Miami District Court has agreed to listen to the cases of a group of 21 Cuban rafters who managed to reach a lighthouse in the Florida Keys in order to prevent their repatriation to Cuba and receive political asylum in the US.

Raul Castro’s Possible Successor Visits Putin in the Kremlin

If everything goes as the script has it, in 2018 Raul Castro will retire as president of Cuba and pass on the baton to his First Vice President, Miguel Diaz Canel, currently on a visit to Russia to meet with President Vladiimir Putin and other top authorities.

Havana Weather for May 26 – June 1

In the coming days conditions are favorable for the occurrence of rain and scattered thunderstorms, especially in the afternoons. The days will be warm with a relative high humidity.