The famous group of traditional Cuban music, Buena Vista Social Club, is preparing to travel to the United States, where it will offer around 20 concerts starting next month, in what will be their biggest tour in that nation.
Read MoreMembers of a UN Committee of Experts began to inspect a shipment of Cuban weapons seized from the North Korean vessel Chong Chon Gang, detained last July in the city of Colon, 80 kilometers north of the Panamanian capital, DPA reported.
Read MoreOf the many Cuban baseball players clandestinely leaving the island in recent times the defection announced this week of the power hitting first baseman Jose Dariel Abreu, 26, will be hard felt on the Cuban national team and league.
Read MoreInterested in recovering its declining coconut industry, the Cuban government is currently planning to enter into a partnership with one of the world’s top producers of the fruit, the remote island of Sri Lanka.
Read MoreLifelong fans, new fans, curious spectators, young and old people, and a plane that never arrived. Finally, one by one, the Industriales veterans emerged from the same flight, bursting out laughing nervously as they saw so many cameras and lights aimed their way.
Read MoreMariela Castro, who assists the First Regional Meeting on Population and Development in Montevideo, said today that Cuba has made progress with in the defense of sexual and reproductive rights.
Read MoreCuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega presided Sunday at the closing Mass of the Fifth National Eucharistic Congress in El Salvador, as a special envoy of Pope Francisco, reported Prensa Latina.
Read MorePanamanian authorities confirmed today the completion of unloading the North Korean vessel “Chong Chon Gang” detained in this Central American country, with a cargo of undeclared Cuban weapons on board, reported DPA news.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Panama announced on Sunday that it will confer territorial asylum to 19 Cubans currently detained on the island of Bahamas in the Caribbean.
Read MoreCuba will once again host the Brutal Summer Fest heavy metal rock event from August 15-25 with foreign and local bands participating, reports Prensa Latina.
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