A delegation of the Cuban government led by Noel Vazquez Perez, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment. This is an unprecedented event ever since the Asian country severed ties with the island after the island’s revolutionary victory in 1959.
Read MoreCuba’s top diplomat in Washington, Jorge Bolaños, proposed an exchange of the “Cuban Five,” who are imprisoned in the United States, for the freedom of US citizen Alan Gross, who is being held in Cuba.
Read MoreSome rain is expected for Thursday and Friday due to the passage of a frontal system to the north of the island. In addition, there will be some showers on Tuesday and Wednesday due to daytime heating. The remainder of the period we will have partly cloudy skies.
Read MoreThe large Dutch bank ING is reportedly ready to come to an arrangement with the US authorities over its alleged breach of the half century US trade embargo against Cuba.
Read MoreThe fifth annual “Cuban Day Against Homophobia” began on Tuesday with a press conference at the offices of Havana’s National Center for Sex Education (CENSEX), which is directed by Mariela Castro, the daughter of the country’s president.
Read MoreThe eleventh “Bienal de La Habana” arts festival, which opens on Friday and will run through June 11, is involving 180 artists from 43 countries. In addition, hundreds of thousands of art lovers are expected to turn out – including more than 1,000 US citizens.
Read MoreThe 32nd international tourism fair — “FITCuba 2012” — opened on Tuesday on the Santa Maria Key beach resort located in the center-north of the island.
Read MoreChess players participating in the Capablanca Tournament are now enjoying a required break after each having played five games of the first round, currently again led by the Ukrainian master Vassily Ivanchuk.
Read MoreUkrainian Orthodox Church in Kiev on Tuesday presented the Cuban government with a certificate in recognition of the medical treatment provided over 22 years to child victims of the Chernobyl accident.
Read MoreThe Fourth International Conference on Women, Gender and the Law began on Tuesday in Havana and will meet for three days with the nearly 200 participants, including lawyers, psychologists and sociologists.
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