Havana, Cuba.-Expecting the international impact of the unpredictable policies by the new U.S. government, the members of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) are tuning up the stances that they will debate here at the 12th Meeting of their Ministerial Council on March 8. Although the main topics on the official agenda of next week’s […]
Panama City, Panama.-A total of 30 Cuban enterprises from public health, telecommunications, industry, and agriculture -among other sectors- will attend the International Commercial Fair EXPOCOMER 2017 in Panama in March 22. The Cuban Embassy in Panama, by means of its commercial office, some of the Cuban companies. will be Agroindustrial Victoria de Girón and Cítricos […]
Havana, Cuba.-Cuba will present the project Maritime-Port Strategy for the Caribbean at the 1st ACS Conference of Cooperation, to be held from March 8th to 11th, said sources today here. Pedro Suarez, official from the Ministry of Transportation (Mitrans), told the Cuban television that this will be the master plan for the maritime-port development that […]
Buenos Aires, Argentina.-Two University Departments, one in Buenos Aires and another one in Cordoba will deepen in the thoughts and legacy of historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro when they are inaugurated on March 9 and 10. The initiative emerged from the resolution of the most recent continental Movement to Alba (sunrise) -Bolivarian […]
Rome, Italy.-The vice president of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), Ramon Labañino, has concluded a working visit to Italy on Sunday, at the invitation of the Communist Network (RdC). The Hero of the Republic of Cuba, who was unjustly held in a U.S. prison for fighting terrorism, along with Gerardo […]
Beirut, Lebanon.-The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) paid posthumous tribute today to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whom they praised as paradigms of solidarity and resistance. The DFLP political bureau handed over to the charge d’affaires of the Cuban Embassy in Lebanon, […]
Caracas, Venezuela.-With the presence of presidents, prime ministers and guests from several countries, the 14th ALBA-TCP Summit opened in Caracas today, paying tribute to the revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez. On the fourth anniversary of Chavez’s death (1954-2013) on Sunday, the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) […]
Havana, Cuba.-The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is cooperating today in Cuba in the development of pastures, like moringa and other protein plants. We want the country to provide its own animal food, to replace food imports, Theodor Friedrich, top representative of that body in Cuba, told Prensa Latina. After speaking about the collaboration […]
Havana, Cuba.-The first vice-minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, General Álvaro López Miera, received today the Minister of Defense of El Salvador, David Mungia, who is on an official visit. The solemn ceremony was carried out in The Cacahual, where the visitor paid tribute to general Antonio Maceo and his assistant captain Francisco […]
Havana, Cuba.-Cuba advocates today for developing a cooperation and dialogue approach to make the functioning of the Human Rights Council more effective, the representative of the Caribbean nation, Pedro Luis Pedroso, stated in Geneva. When speaking at the high-level segment of the 34th ordinary session of the Council, the head of the Cuban delegation stated […]
Havana, Cuba.-The participants in the 19th Habano Festival are visiting today factories of those craft cigars, to better understand the skill of cigar rollers and the quality control. One of the elements that intrigues most people who like to smoke a cigarette is the way in which they roll a cigar and what parameters they […]
Havana, Cuba.- The 1st Cooperation Conference of the Association of Caribbean States, from March 8th to 11th, will give the opportunity to broaden the joint cooperation, Cuban diplomat Rafael Zamora states. ‘This event is aimed at assessing the state of cooperation programs, but we fundamentally want to manage resources for those programs which are being […]
Paris, France.-A delegation from the National Institute of Hydraulic Resource of Cuba has complied in France with a broad agenda aimed at exploring technologies that allow a better distribution and use of water, Abel Salas, the entity’s first vice president, said. Salas told Prensa Latina that the program included several activities such as visits to […]
Havana, Cuba.-As part of one of the most attractive days of the 19th Habano Festival, attendees are touring today tobacco plantations in the western region, the best known area in the world of this crop. In these places, the layer leave is specially harvested for (handmade) Premium cigars, hence the extreme care taken by the […]
Havana, Cuba.-First Vice-President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, met with the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, Mian Raza Rabbani, who is today on his second day of official activities invited by the National People”s Power Assembly (ANPP). During the meeting held yesterday, both officials talked about the excellent state of […]
Havana, Cuba.-Cuba, under the auspices of the UN Development Program (UNDP), is implementing a strategic flora and fauna conservation and preservation initiative that involves an undertaking to implement a series of concrete actions until the year 2020. The national study, led by Cuba’s Environment Agency’s Ecology and Systematic Institute, incorporates 20 goals and five concrete […]
Havana, Cuba.-German Federal State Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Bohmer met here Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, in a dialogue in which both governmental officials ratified their mutual interest in strenghtening the links between Cuba and Germany. At the host building of the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry in Havana, both officials highlighted the state of the […]
Havana, Cuba.-The boxing dual meet between a Cuban provincial team, and a team from the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, showed that sport exchanges between Cuba and the US are opening ways for normalization of bilateral relations. After several dual meets in sports such as baseball, basketball, wrestling, kick boxing, soccer, volleyball, water sports and […]
Havana, cuba.-Cuba and Japan signed today a memorandum of understanding to build high quality infrastructures in construction, transportation and tourism, while strengthening bilateral ties. The agreement was signed by Minister of Construction Rene Mesa, vice minister of Transportation Eduardo Rodriguez and Hirofumi Hanaoka, vice minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism of Japan (MLIT), as […]
Matanzas, Cuba.-Senator Joseph Scarnotti, Republican leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, United States, said today that there is much to do between his state and Cuba, as asking the federal Government to lift the blockade. During a press conference, Scarnotti said that there are bilateral business opportunities, for example in the exploration of gas and oil. […]
