The number of Cuban citizens traveling abroad grew by more than 20 percent in the first eight months of this year, a senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Prensa Latina.
The new restrictions on US citizens to visit Cuba will impact against Cuban people and US companies providing job openings which pay their corresponding taxes, a specialized travel organization said today.
The activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act has hardened the economic blockade with which the United States has besieged Cuba for nearly 60, the Association of Cuban Residents in Toronto (ACRT), Canada, has denounced.
Cuban Congressman José Rubiera reported today that for his people it is a duty of solidarity with its counterpart and government of Venezuela, which faces the siege of the United States and the threats of a military invasion.
The referendum on Cuba”s new Constitution continues on Sunday in several countries, an exercise in which diplomats, cooperators and students already voted in over 100 nations on Saturday 16.
Havana citizens on Monday highlighted the accelerated pace of recovery in the areas affected by a tornado that hit them on January 27, causing several deaths and considerable material damages.
Jose Marti”s thought enlightens those who dream of a better world, highlighted Monday in France during a tribute to Cuba”s National Hero, on the 166th anniversary of his birth.
Next February 24, patriotic date, designing the approval of the first Cuban constitution 150 years ago, over eight million Cubans are summoned to vote in a referendum to support the new Constitution of the Republic that was approved last December 22 by the National Assembly of the People”s Power.
Cuba’s University of Computer Sciences (UCI) is offering four new products to Cubans, as part of the computerization of society, UCI Commercial Manager Luis Rosel Rodriguez said.
Participants in the XIII Meeting of Cuban Residents in Europe (ECRE) today raise their voice against the US blockade of the Caribbean country, said the president of Cubabel, the event”s organizing association, Menia Martínez.
Residents in Santiago de Cuba gathered on Tuesday at the former civil hospital, currently the Abel Santamaria Museum of History, to remember the self-defense plea made there by Fidel Castro 65 years ago, after the attack on the Moncada Garrison.
Cubans working abroad or residing outside the island continue today participating in debates about a new constitution for the Caribbean country.
The president of the Union of Cuban Residents in Argentina (URCA), Adonis Torres, has highlighted today the importance of the historic consultation and popular debate on the draft Constitution of the island, in which everyone can participate.
The mass, social, peasant and workers” organizations of this city have declared today ready to begin the process of popular consultation on the Draft Constitution of the Republic of Cuba today.
All Cubans will be a constituent in the popular referendum that will begin on Monday on the draft of the constitution of Cuba, said Marcela González, member of the national team for processing the proposals.
All Cuban citizens, whether residents in the island or not, will have the opportunity to participate in the debates on the new Constitution project, said here today Foreign Ministry official Ernesto Soberon.
Thousands of Cubans in the west of the country already have in their hands the draft of the new Constitution, a text which will also be available today and tomorrow in the center and east of the island.
The draft of the new Constitution will be submitted to popular consultation from August 13 to November 15, a process that would lead to the drawing up of a final text before being voted in a referendum for it approval.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raul Castro, said on Thursday that putting the draft of the new Constitution up for people’s discussion starting early August is an exercise of democracy.
