The 23rd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba is rolling, but hit a road block on Sunday when US Customs refused to let the Canadian aid, which includes medical supplies, wheelchairs, educational supplies and sports equipment, enter the USA from Vancouver.
Read MoreCuban President Raul Castro left Havana on Sunday for an official visit in China and Vietnam, reports the Granma newspaper. This is Castro’s first official visit to China since assuming the presidency in 2008.
Read MoreWorks by Cuban dancer and choreographer Irene Rodriguez and by Spanish-Israeli artist Sharon Fridman were winners on Sunday at the Eighth Alicia Alonso Ibero-American Choreography Competition.
Read MoreThe Cuban-born gymnast Danell Leyva won a spot on the US Olympic team after beating out his Puerto Rican teammate John Orozco on Saturday in qualifying rounds for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Read MoreTwo people died and more than 50 remain hospitalized in the eastern city of Manzanillo, where an outbreak of cholera required authorities to set up a quarantine at the Celia Sanchez Manduley Provincial Surgical Clinic,” reported the Miami-based Café Fuerte website, though there has been no confirmation or denial of the incidents in the official state-run media.
Read MoreBritish-Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey was pulled out of the water this past Sunday morning after swimming for 40 hours in an attempt to cross the Florida Straits.
Read MoreMexico’s old ruling party, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is set to return to power after early election results indicate the PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto has won the presidential election. Peña Nieto’s chief rival, the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has not conceded, but the PRI has already claimed victory.
Read MoreHigh school student Alejandro Lazaro Alfonso will represent Cuba in the 17th Ibero-American Physics Olympiad, to be held this September in Granada, Spain.
Read MoreThe following is the monthly calendar of film showings for July 2012 at the Cinemateca de Cuba which includes the Charles Chaplin theater and the Charlot videoteca, both located on 23rd St. between 10th and 12th in Havana’s Vedado District. For more information call (537) 838-2844 or write [email protected].
Read MoreThe political wing of United States foreign policy is offering up to $3 million dollars each for two projects to break the through the state-controlled media monopoly in Cuba.
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