Police officers violently detained three Cuban political opposition figures in the Havana municipality of Marianao on Thursday, August 16, as they were handing out copies of the “Demanda Ciudadana Por otra Cuba” (Citizens Demand for Another Cuba).
Read MoreHonduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa announced yesterday on the occasion of the first meeting on immigration of the Latin America and the Caribbean Community, held in the city of Comayagua, the signing today of a maritime boundary treaty between that Central America country and Cuba.
Read MoreCuban singer Silvio Rodriguez announced Monday on his blog Segunda Cita that he will be performing in two Argentinean cities in November. He will be appearing on November 23 and 24 at Luna Park in Buenos Aires, and on the 26th at the Estadio Union in the city of Santa Fe.
Read MoreDiana Nyad was out of the water as of 7:42 a.m. on Tuesday having given up on her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. The 62-year-old grandmother had made it over 60 miles of the 103-mile journey she began at the Hemingway Marina in Havana on Saturday.
Read MoreThe Cuban reservoirs revealed themselves to be in a “favorable situation” at the end of July, said the vice president of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH), Aymee Aguirre, in comments to the weekly Cuban magazine Trabajadores.
Read MoreThe Edmonton Journal reported on Sunday that the player from the Cuban female baseball team who had “disappeared” last Monday in Edmonton, Canada, has been identified as Odrisleisis Pequero del Sol.
Read MoreCuba’s Carlos Acosta, the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet of London, announced at the Cuba Pavilion in Havana on Friday, that next year he will publish his first novel, titled Pata de puerco (Pork Leg).
Read MoreCuban boxer Giorbis Barthelemy, a US resident, was suspended for 10 years and fined up to $10,000 for biting the neck of his opponent during a fight on August 4 in Atlanta.
Read MoreAn American athlete was swimming for a second day on her way from Cuba to the United States in her bid to become the first woman to cross the stretch without a shark cage, the swimmer’s personal website reported Sunday.
Read MoreCuban academic Camila Piñeira, daughter of the late guerilla commander Manuel “Red Beard” Pineiro, on Wednesday called for “participatory democracy” on the island, while basing this on the economic reforms of President Raul Castro.
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