he Cuban delegation to the Olympic Games in London was bumped down a notch on Monday when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it was withdrawing the gold medal won by Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus after findings of her having used banned anabolic steroids.
Read MoreThe Spanish hotel chain in Cuba, Melia Hotels International, has developed a marketing campaign to attract Cuban tourists, inviting them to visit their 25 facilities on the island.
Read MoreThe political opposition group Estado de SATS protested on its website on Friday that a police operation took place around the house of its leader Antonio Rodiles, in an upscale neighborhood of Havana, to prevent public attendance at the screening of the documentary Knock-out.
Read MoreThe Cuban film Habanastation won the popularity award at the recently concluded 16th annual Lima Film Festival
Read MoreCuba obtained it’s fifth gold medal at the London Olympics as 18-year-old flyweight Robeisy Ramirez defeated his Mongolian opponent Tugstsogt Nyambayar in a close 17-14 bout. Cuba finished the Olympics in 15th place, an improvement over Beijing.
Read MoreThe Cuban government has withdrawn a “blacklist” from state-run radio stations, one which included Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan, Bebo Valdes and another fifty artists who were or are critical of the island’s political system.
Read MoreThe Central Bank of Cuba is revising the requirements of its new credit policy for private sector workers, according to a report broadcast on state-run television.
Read MoreCuba has two chances in boxing for a gold medal in the Light welterweight (Saturday) and Fly weight (Sunday) division’s final bouts at the London Olympics. To date Cuba has 11 medals: 3 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze.
Read MoreFidel Castro turns 86 on Monday August 13, in a stage of his life where he seldom appears in public. The man who governed Cuba for nearly a half century still writes newspaper columns, which are also read word for word on the national television news.
Read MoreIsrael Rojas (a member of the popular musical duo Buena Fe) protested Cuban television’s censorship of his latest music video “Ser del Sol” (Being of the Sun), which is about a homosexual relationship between two women.
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