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26 July, 2016 Social Networks Celebrate Cuban National Rebellion Day

Havana, Cuba.-Cuba and other latitudes internet users were involved today in a big twitter connection in honor of the National Rebellion Day, which main ceremony was held this year in this city, in recognition of its economic and social achievements. The label # Cuba, # SanctiSpiritusEn26, # SiempreEs26 and #FidelEntreNosotros, were at the top in […]

26 July, 2016 Sancti Spiritus Honors Fidel Castro on Day of National Rebellion

Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.-The central ceremony for the Day of National Rebelliousness held in this city also served as a tribute to the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, who will turn 90 years old next August 13th. The political ceremony at the Mayor General Serafín Sánchez Revolution Square presented images of the assault […]

26 July, 2016 Cuban Olympic Delegation Celebrates National Rebellion Day

Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban delegation to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro-2016 sent today, from the Olympic village, a message to the people for the July 26, Day of National Rebellion. In the letter, the members of the Caribbean group assured to be celebrating from the distance this commemorative day, only a few hours for […]

21 July, 2016 US Blockade Hampers Progress of Relations with Cuba

Havana, Cuba.-The persistence of the U.S. blockade on Cuba hinders today the progress of the process to normalize bilateral relations, the general director of the United States Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Josefina Vidal, said. In interview with Granma newspaper, the official stated that after one year of the restoration of diplomatic relations, […]

21 July, 2016 US Blockade Hinders Progress of US-Cuba Relations

Havana, cuba.-The US blockade against Cuba hinders the progress of the process of normalization of bilateral ties, the director general of the United States division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Josefina Vidal, said. In an interview with the Granma newspaper, the official said that a year after the start of the rapprochement […]

21 July, 2016 Trade Contacts with Cuba Increase through Business Forums

Havana, Cuba.- Trade contacts with Cuba have increased with regular business forums organized by the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba to provide visiting delegations with information. Delegations from the United States, Spain, Canada, Bahamas, Panama and South Africa, to name a few, were able to hold meetings with their Cuban counterparts to […]

21 July, 2016 Dual Meet between Cuba and the US in Baseball Agreed for July

Havana, cuba.-The national teams of Cuba and the United States will celebrate their traditional dual meet in baseball with five matches from July 23rd to 27th, in several provinces of Cuba. Both teams will play their first and second matches at the Jose Ramon Cepero in the Cuban province of Ciego de Avila (July 23rd […]

20 July, 2016 Cuba-US Ministerial Visits Promote Bilateral Exchange

Havana, Cuba.-Nearly one year after the resumption of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, the visits made by senior US officials to Cuba and senior Cuban officials to the United State, are contributing to ensuring the continuity of the process. The visits to the United States by the Cuban Ministers of Foreign Affairs, […]

20 July, 2016 Vietnamese Deputy Defense Minister Continues Visit to Cuba

Havana, Cuba.-Vietnamese Deputy Defense Minister, Nguyen Chi Vinh, today continues his visit to Cuba with tours of military schools and facilities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR). The member of the Vietnamese Communist Partyâ?Ös Central Committee and FARâ?Ös First Deputy Minister, Alvaro Lopez, yesterday paid tribute to Antonio Maceo at the mausoleum where his remains […]

20 July, 2016 Cuban Ballet Dedicates Classic Don Quixote to Fidel Castro

Havana, Cuba.-The Cuban National Ballet will make three performances next weekend of the classic piece Don Quixote, dedicated to the 90th birthday of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, the company reported today. The Federico Garcia Lorca hall at the Alicia Alonso Gran Teatro in Havana will host the performances of the […]

20 July, 2016 An Essential Alliance

Havana, Cuba. – The most recent meeting of the International Economic Forum sponsored by the Russian authorities, held some days ago in St. Petersburg confirmed the key alliance between Moscow and Latin America and the Caribbean. An understanding that, without a doubt, is not well accepted or assumed by the hegemonic forces seeking to rearrange […]

20 July, 2016 Looking to Year 2030 and beyond

Havana, Cuba. -The ongoing process of analysis of documents from the seventh Congress of the Communist Party is a chance to take a look, with a magnifying glass, to the future designed for Cuba. In those meetings it is decisive the participation of all, especially of those with a greater experience in each area. With […]

20 July, 2016 A Day in May, when Fidel Return to Cuba from a Long Journey

Havana, Cuba- After an extensive tour through the United States, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, which began on April 15, 1959, Commander-in- Chief Fidel Castro arrived in Cuba on May 8 that year, leading the delegation that accompanied him on that occasion. Throughout the morning of that day and noon, residents of different sites were […]

19 July, 2016 Cuba and Bahamas on Tourist Business Together

Havana, Cuba.-Tourism is supplying sources for business between Cuba and the Bahamas, as representatives from both countries who started a forum of two days to identify new chances for trade and investments, evaluated here Monday. The forum found the multi-desination offers inside the Caribbean zone among the concrete possibilties, said Edison L. Sumner, executive director […]

19 July, 2016 10th Central American Olympiad of Chemistry Inaugurated in Cuba

Havana, Cuba.-The 10th Central American Olympiad of Chemistry and 7th Olympiad of the Caribbean Sea started Monday here, with competitors of Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Cuba. In the opening, the Cuban viceminister of Education Margarita McPherson said that the event is propitious to stimulate the young people development with talent in this […]

19 July, 2016 Diaz-Canel Stresses Nicaragua´s Social and Economic Achievements

Managua, Nicaragua.-Cuban First Vice President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, stressed the social and economic achievements of Nicaragua, after arriving in Managua today to participate in the celebrations for the 37th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution. “As a result of the Sandinista Front led by Commander Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua is today a free, sovereign and […]

19 July, 2016 Italian Solidarity Brigade Visits Cuba

Ciego de Avila, Cuba.-Approximately 30 young Italian people of the Gino Doné Brigade, visit today different places of interest of this Cuban city, as part of their trip by several provinces of the island of Cuba. In the morning they gave homage to the National Hero of Cuba, José Martí, with a floral gift in […]

18 July, 2016 Gail Walker Conveys Pastors for Peace’s Solidarity with Cuba

Mexico City, Mexico.-During these days in Mexico, before leaving for the island, we reiterate the purpose of maintaining solidarity towards Cuba,” said today Gail Walker, executive director of Pastors for Peace. There are changes in the relations between United States and Cuba, but there are persons, who do not understand that the blockade continues,’ Gail […]

18 July, 2016 Correa Ratifies that Rights of Deported Cubans were Respected

Quito, Ecuador.-Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa ratified that all human rights of the 121 Cuban citizens that were deported recently, because they had stayed in this South American country in an irregular situation, were respected. It is not that these Cuban citizens were going to settle in our country. They were in transit to reach the […]

18 July, 2016 New Book Highlights Relevance of Fidel´s Address to Intellectuals

Havana, Cuba.-The book “Un texto absolutament vigente” (An Absolutely Current Text) gathers articles about the speech ” Words to intellectuals” given by Fidel Castro in 1961 and stressed today the relevance of this address. Historian Elier Ramírez Cadeño made a compilation of 16 articles by prestigious authors like Graziella Pogolotti, Armando Hart, Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, […]