A new milestone in the historic rapprochement between two old enemies takes place this Friday when US Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Cuba to officially reopen the US embassy on the island after more than half a century.
Read MoreRussia has authorized the importation of Cuban shellfish — initially shrimp and lobster — and will start receiving it “without limitation,” the Russian Ministry of Agriculture announced Monday (Aug. 10) in Moscow.
Read MoreThe Russian vehicle manufacturer GAZ “is considering” assembling some of its products in Cuba or Venezuela for distribution in Latin America, a spokesman for the company said this past weekend.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has sent its vice minister of Health and the head of the Water Resources Institute from Havana to the province of Holguín to supervise the battle against an outbreak of dengue fever and cholera that has already caused the cancellation of the popular annual carnival, originally set for Aug. 20-23.
Read MoreWhile the Havana Carnival starts today in the capital, only two weeks before the official start of the 2015 carnival in Holguin, provincial authorities decided to postpone the celebration in view of the critical epidemiological situation faced by the northeastern Cuban city.
Read MoreHigh temperatures will be between 32 and 34° C (90 and 93 F), and the lows between 23 and 24° C (73 and 75 F). The sea surface temperature will reach 30° C (86 F).
Read MoreWorkers at Polar, Venezuela’s largest private food producer, protested the expropriation of their plant in Caracas on Thursday, after a court ordered their eviction for the building of low cost homes.
Read MoreHigh temperatures will range between 32 and 34° C (90 and 93 F), and the lows at 24 and 25° C (75 and 77 F). The sea surface temperature will be stable at 29° C (84 F).
Read MoreNow that the US and Cuba have reestablished diplomatic relations, should the Cuban Adjustment Act get the axe? The issue is a hot potato in US politics.
Read MoreThe State Department has removed Cuba from its list of countries that do nothing to deal with human trafficking, upgrading the island from Tier 3 in its 2015 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to Tier 2.
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