Cuban authorities began updating and correcting the voter registry on Thursday in preparation for the first phase of the general elections, scheduled for October 21. In this balloting, delegates to municipal assemblies will be selected across the country.
Read MoreThe final selection has been made of the members of Cuba’s men’s judo team, which will take part in the World Cup of that sport in the Brazilian city of Salvador on November 27 and 28.
Read MoreCuban Vice President Marino Murillo is on an official visit to Vietnam, where he met Thursday with Secretary General of the Communist Party of that country, Nguyen Phu Trong.
Read MoreThe University of Information Sciences (UCI) was “decoupled” from the Ministry of Information and Communications and is now operating under the Ministry of Higher Education (MES), according to a news items issued on Thursday.
Read MoreCuba’s former minister of Culture, Abel Prieto, was declared a “distinguished visitor in Montevideo” on Thursday by the mayor of the Uruguayan capital, Ana Olivera.
Read MoreCuba is launching onto the international market an innovative variety of cigar, “El Petit Churchill,” according to a statement released on Monday by the international corporation Habanos SA.
Read MoreLeinier Dominguez obtained the crown of the Super Cup in rapid chess in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he totaled 7.5 points in 11 games, out-performing local player Peter Svidler.
Read MoreThe Cuban government closed hundreds of health care facilities (including hospitals, clinics, medic stations and dental clinics) as part of a program that began in 2010 to reduce “unreasonable costs” weighing on the island’s health care system.
Read MoreExecutives of three foreign companies detained by Cuban authorities for a year or more have still not been formally charged with any crime, said sources related to the cases.
Read MoreThe president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), Sepp Blatter, postponed his visit to Cuba until next year, though the visit was to have taken place later this month.
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