Latest Cuba News
RSS-
Cuban Sugar Mills Make Significant Energy Contributions to National Grid
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba, Jun 12 (acn) A significant contribution to the National Electric Power System (SEN for its Spanish acronym) was made by sugar workers of Ciego de Avila in the recent sugarcane harvest by delivering more than 5000 megawatts-hour over the 6000 expected ...
-
Havana Hosts ALBA Ministerial Meeting Today
HAVANA, Cuba, May 17 (acn) Havana is hosting on Friday the 6th Meeting of the Ministerial Meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of our America (ALBA), which will particularly focus on social ...
-
Latin American Council of Churches Meets in Havana
HAVANA, Cuba, May 22 (acn) The 6th Assembly of the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAE) opens today in Havana with the attendance of 300 religious leaders from 20 countries of this part of the world, who are determined to strengthen relations and express their support of the Cuban ...
More Cuba News
RSS-
Cuba Defends Puerto Rican Self-Determination at UN
United Nations, June 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba presented today at the United Nations a draft resolution that reaffirms Puerto Rico's inalienable right to self-determination and independence. The text was put to the consideration of all 29 member countries of the UN decolonization committee by Cuban permanent representative to the UN, Rodolfo Reyes. The Cuban diplomat recalled that the Puerto ...
-
Cuban officials visit expected to bolster links
/enpproperty--> Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel's trip to China is expected to strengthen ties between the new leaderships of both countries, according to Chinese analysts. Diaz-Canel, who was appointed in February, arrived in Beijing on Monday for the first stop on his maiden Asian trip. He is scheduled to meet top Chinese leaders and see some Cuban firms during his ...
-
Debate to close Guantanamo Bay reignited
President Barack Obama has chosen Clifford Sloan, to be the State Department's special envoy for closing down the prison at Guantanamo Bay but his appointment follows the House's overwhelming passage of a defense bill that would block the shutdown. The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg ...
-
Venezuelan Parliament President Arrives in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 7 (acn) The president of the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, arrived Thursday, in Havana, on an official ...
-
Cuban President Receives Syrian Presidential Envoy
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 7 (acn) Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz met Thursday, in Havana, with Doctor Mohsen Bilal, special envoy of the President of the Arab Republic of Syria, Bashar ...
-
Cuba Expands Public Internet Services
HAVANA, Cuba, May 28 (acn) Cuba will expand public internet services next June 4 in some 118 cyber centers operating throughout the country, according to a resolution issued by the ...
-
Guantanamo Bay Stories From Inside the Worlds Most Infamous Jail
June 17, 2013 1:00 PM ET Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray – once the center of the newly designated Global War On Terror – is all weeds and decaying wood shacks now. Between opening in January 2002 and closing four months later, the camp housed as many as 300 detainees; images from that time, with orange-jumpsuited prisoners kneeling in outdoor cages fenced in by barbed wire, are ...
-
Police made hundreds of visits to Ariel Castros Cleveland street in the years since three womens disappearance
Local police made nearly eleven hundred visits to houses on the Cleveland block where Ariel Castro is accused of holding three women captive in his home for around a decade, it has ...
-
U.S. Cuban postal officials to hold landmark direct talks
State Department confirmed on Monday that U.S. and Cuban officials will hold direct talks in Washington this week about restarting direct snail-mail service between the two nations for the first time in a half-century.';Representatives from ...
-
Rare U.S.-Cuba talks to explore resuming mail services
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Cuba are exploring the possibility of resuming direct mail services between the two countries after a 50-year ban, U.S. officials with knowledge of the talks said on ...
-
Cohiba is the Best Cuban Cigar
HAVANA, Cuba, June 17 (acn) A five-member international expert panel based in France ratified the Cohiba Behike-52 as the best Cuban Habano ...
-
Raul Congratulates Cuban University Students for their Congress
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 15 (acn) Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and President of the councils of State and Ministers, sent on Friday a message of congratulations to the University Students Federation (FEU) for the successful preparation and development of its 8th ...
-
Cuba University Students Summit Starts in Havana
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 12 (acn) With the motto that "for young people committed to their time, all time is short to do", starts this Wednesday the work sessions of the VIII Congress of the Federation of University Students ...
-
Cuban Judo Celebrates Third Place at Miami Grand Prix
Washington, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuban judo celebrates today the third place by countries obtained at the Grand Prix of Miami, USA, with two gold medals, one silver and two bronze. The incomplete male and female teams of the largest Caribbean island (2-1-2) were third after Russia (2-4-2) and France (2-1-3), in that order. The female performance was outstanding, concluding in the second place, ...
-
Cuban First Vice President Begins Official Visit to China
Beijing, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Senior leaders of Cuba and China reiterated today the excellent level of political, economic and social relationships between the two States and their intention to monitor the depth of those ties at the government, communist parties, and peoples level. That was the view shared by Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, member of the Political Bureau of the ...
-
U.S. Talks With Cuba on Resuming Direct Mail Service
Cuban and U.S. officials will meet in Washington tomorrow and the next day to discuss possible direct mail service between their nations. The U.S. and Cuba haven't had direct postal service since 1963, following the communist revolution in Cuba. The reestablishment of direct mail would promote a U.S. interest in the free flow of information to and from Cuba, said two U.S. officials, ...
-
U.S. Cuba to discuss re-opening direct mail service
WASHINGTON A U.S. official told the Associated Press on Monday that the United States and Cuba would resume talks this week on restarting direct mail service -- a diplomatic foray which may be at once uniquely outdated, and potentially significant. The official said talks were to resume despite a deadlock between Washington and Havana over detainees that has largely stalled most rapprochement ...
-
WFP to Support Food Project in Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 12 (acn) The World Food Program (WFP) will provide financial support to grain production in the Cuban provinces of Guantanamo and Matanzas, Juventud Rebelde newspaper ...
-
Preparations for the Cuban Workers Confederation Congress Continue
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 12 (acn) Preparations for the 20th Congress of the Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC) continue, with the celebration, this week, of the provincial conference of that labor union organization in western Pinar del Rio ...
-
Armando Hart Doctor Honoris Causa of Mexican University
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 12 (acn) Armando Hart, member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and director of the Office of the Marti Program, received on Tuesday the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Education of the Jose Marti Latin American University of Monterrey, ...
-
Cuba Hosts Nursing Congress
Havana, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) With the development of several training courses, the activities of the 15th Cuban congress on nursing, will start today at the Conference Center in Havana. Issues related to sexual and reproductive health, conform the scientific agenda of the event, which will discuss healthy lifestyles, gender, family planning/birth control methods, and responsible sexual ...
-
Havana Hosts Caribbean Cinema Forum Info - Prod Research
Breaking hearts, winning minds ; Five directors have been nominated for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties film award. Here they discuss their ...
Cuba Focus
-
Cuba and Venezuela pushing ahead with major undersea project
Submarine cables are the information gateways of the modern world and Cuba will soon be linked to Venezuela and Jamaica by one, which will increase the efficiency of information flows between the countries by over 3000 times.
Work on an underwater cable that will link Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica is underway with the survey ship RV Ridley Thomas mapping the ocean floor between the countries to determine the exact path of the cable. Read more
News from around our Network
