Four Cuban women remain on a hunger strike that began on Sunday in the prison where they are detained in the Bahamas. Their protest is aimed at not being sent back to Cuba, reports Diario de Cuba.
Read MoreCuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was received today by senior White House officials as part of a visit to Washington. Her trip also allowed her to meet with legislators, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and academics, reported dpa news.
Read MoreRecently I was reading the national press of my country (Venezuela) and I found a brief interview with Yoani Sanchez, the ill-termed ““writer feared by the Castro government” (though I really doubt that the Castros feel daunted by her). In this interview, though, she was talking about Venezuela.
Read MoreThe Dominican Republic defeated Puerto Rico 3-0 on Tuesday evening to win the third World Baseball Classic. It was their second shutout win over the neighboring Caribbean island rival. Japan, the winner of the first two Classics, finished third and Holland fourth, followed by Cuba, the United States, Italy and Chinese Taipei.
Read MoreCuban blogger Yoani Sanchez paid a visit to the US Senate on Monday at the invitation of Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and other lawmakers. Following the meeting Nelson made a request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to call for an independent investigation into the car crash deaths of Cuban dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Hector Cepero last July.
Read MoreCuba’s new First Vice President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, heads the island’s delegation to the enthronement of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I today in the Vatican.
Read MoreThe US government denied on Monday having any involvement in plans to destabilize Venezuela or a plot to assassinate opposition leader Henrique Capriles.The accusation of US meddling had come on Sunday from the interim president, Nicolas Maduro.
Read More“Not a single drop of oil is going to go for funding the government of the Castros in Cuba. Mr. Castro uses Venezuelans, our people, so that government is enriched… Nicolas is the candidate of the Castros, I am the candidate of Venezuela and Venezuelans,” said Henrique Capriles on Monday.
Read MoreThe government of Raul Castro declared today a public holiday in Cuba on March 29, (Good Friday) the second time this has occurred on the island in half a century The first time the holiday was observed took place in 2012, shortly after the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba in March of that year.
Read MorePlans to embalm the body of Hugo Chavez and put him on permanent display were called off on Friday. “To carry out the procedure the body would have to be sent to Russia for a period of 7 or 8 months,” said the minister of communications, Ernesto Villegas. “After receiving this report the idea of embalming was definitely discarded.”
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