Less than a week before Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba for a three-day official visit, Amnesty International warned in a report Thursday that “repression is routine” on the communist island and that conditions are worsening there.
Read MoreAn exclusive interview with Cuba’s multi-award winning blogger Yoani Sanchez was aired today by Voice of America, official mouthpiece of the US government.
Read MoreAn agency within the US Treasury Department has threatened to suspend the licenses of operators that advertise trips to Cuba with suggestions of tours.
Read MoreThe wife of US government agent Alan Gross, currently serving time in a Cuban prison, yesterday again called on Raul Castro to authorize an urgent trip by her husband to the US.
Read MoreThe countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) have yet to reach an agreement on whether to attend the Summit of the Americas conference set for April in Colombia.
Read More“This group of stars will be coming together for the first time in a project of Cuban music, specifically the son style,” said Joaquín Betancourt, the composer, arranger and 2001 Grammy Award winner who will lead the ensemble.
Read MoreIn a surprise announcement released on Tuesday in Havana, USA Baseball has reported the renewal of a long suspended “international friendship series” between the American national collegiate all-stars and a similar squad composed of top-level Cuban collegiate all-stars.
Read MoreThe Central Bank of Cuba changed the rules governing the import and export of hard currency in whatever monetary units, as well as Cuban pesos (CUPs) and Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUCs).
Read MoreCuban actor Reynaldo Miravalles, 89, who lives in the United States, traveled to Cuba this week to star in the movie Esther en alguna parte, directed by Gerardo Chijona.
Read MoreLobbyists in the United States are pressing Congress to pass a law that will levy a 10 per cent “user fee” on agricultural and telephone companies, remittances and travel transactions involving Cuba.
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