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International Youth Day Festivities will honor Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela
CUBA, August 11th, 2010.- To Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro, to our Five Heroes Prisoners of the Empire, and the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students will be dedicated the activities arranged for the International Day of Youth on August 12, said Osnay Miguel Colina, member of the National Bureau of the Young Communists Union (UJC), in a press conference held Tuesday in this capital. More...
Extraordinary session of the National Assembly to discuss international situation
CUBA, August 4th, 2010.- The State Council of the Republic of Cuba agreed to convene a special session of the Popular Power National Assembly, aimed at discussing significant issues of the international situation. More...
Cuban Parliament Protest Mistreatment against Gerardo Hernandez
Cuba, August 1st, 2010.- The Cuban National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) held the U.S. government responsible for “the health and physical integrity of Gerardo Hernandez,” one of the five Cuban antiterrorist unjustly imprisoned in that country. More...
Cuba: Parliament Passes New Road Safety Code
CUBA, August 1st, 2010.- Cuban Parliament passed the draft of the new Road Safety Code, in its third version, after consulting deputies, drivers, lawyers and specialists in branches such as medicine, metrology and traffic. More...
Cuban Parliament Approves New Political-administrative Division
CUBA, August 1st, 2010.- The National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) today approved, at its fifth ordinary session, a revised law that makes adjustments to the current political-administrative division of Cuba. More...
Raul Castro Highlights Encouraging Signs in Cuban Economy
CUBA, August 1st, 2010.- Cuban President Raul Castro said today there are encouraging signs of improvement in Cuban economy in the first half of the current year.
Raul delivered a speech the fifth regular session of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) where he said that oil production, the increase of labor productivity above the average wage and a modest rise in exports were signs of improvement. More...
Freedom of Cuban Five among Priorities of Deputies
Other very important issues were the rejection of the blockade imposed by Washington on the Caribbean nation
CUBA, July 30, 2010.- The battle for the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. was one of the priorities in the Commission of the Cuban Parliament during the last six months, deputies stressed today. More...
Cuban Parliamentarians Endorse Draft on New Road Safety Code
CUBA, July 28, 2010.- Cuban deputies to the National Assembly of People´s Power (Parliament) endorsed a draft on the new Road Safety Code, which combines Cuban law and the most advanced international experience on the issue. More...
Cuban Parliament Session Begin
CUBA, July 28, 2010.- The work sessions of the 12 Permanent Commissions of the Cuban parliament began Wednesday. The National Assembly of Peoples´ Power, or Parliament, will meet and receive information from various ministers until August 1st. More...
Cuban Parliament to Debate National and International Issues
CUBA, July 28, 2010.- The 12 Permanent Commissions of the Cuban Parliament are opening Wednesday for two days of deliberations in preparation for the 5th session of the 7th Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power. More...
CUBA, July 27, 2010.- The Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, spoke with religious activists from the United States and Cuban journalists and intellectuals for more than an hour on Monday after placing a floral offering at the monument of National Hero José Martí in the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana. More...
Women and Youth in Society as Priority in Parliament
CUBA, July 27, 2010.- The National Popular Power Assembly, or Parliament, will receive the Commission of Attention of Youth, Children, and Equality of Women’s Rights on Wednesday. The work of this commission will be initiated with a critical analysis and dialogue of its 35 members with the principal directors of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television about the image of women and youth and the themes of gender and values on Cuban television. More...
Raul Castro presided over the main event in Villa Clara for the Day of National Rebelliousness
CUBA, July 26, 2010.- The Cuban Head of State, Raul Castro, presided over this Monday morning in the central province of Villa Clara, the main event for the 57th Anniversary of the attacks to the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Garrisons. More...
Cuban Deputies to Discuss Critical Issues
CUBA, July 21, 2010.- Critical issues of economic, political and social development will be discussed by the Cuban deputies when they meet between July 28 and 29, and hold August 1st, the 5th Ordinary Session of the Seventh Legislature of the National Assembly. This was confirmed yesterday during a press conference held at the Parliament, during which several of the presidents of the committees, that make it up, detailed their agendas. More...
Cuba Graduates Thousands of New Health Professionals
CUBA, July 20, 2010.- More than 3,000 new public health professionals will receive their respective graduation diplomas in a series of activities that will start in this capital Monday and continue until July 31st. More...
A Cuban President of the World Heart Association
CUBA, July 7, 2010.- Dr. Eduardo Rivas Estany of Cuba, has been elected President of the "Friends of the Heart Around the World" Society, in recognition of his dedication to this field and extended to Cuban cardiology. More...
Cuba: better health statistics than developed countries
CUBA, June 30, 2010.- INFANT mortality statistics in Cuba, in the first year of life as well as in the first five years, "are better than those found in developed countries with much higher national incomes," affirmed Dr. Chok-wan Chan, president of the International Pediatric Association (IPA), speaking in Havana yesterday at the International Workshop on Infant Healthcare Practices. More...
Cuba Develops Pertussis and Cholera Vaccines
CUBA, June 30, 2010.- The Cuban National Center of Scientific Research (CNIC) is developing two important vaccines to fight pertussis (whooping cough) and cholera, respectively, two diseases that cause the death of thousands of people in the poorest countries around the world every year. The news was announced at the 15th International Scientific Conference CNIC 2010, taking place at Havana’s Convention More...
WHO/PAHO Promotes the Cuban Experience in Infant Health Care
CUBA, June 28th, 2010.- The International Workshop to be opened today in Havana City will be the scenario where the Cuban experience concerning child health care over the last 50 years will be presented. It is the result of a research requested by the WHO/PAHO where delegates from over 15 countries will review infant survival regionally and worldwide. More...
Cuba Celebrates National Rebellion Day on July 26
CUBA, June 23, 2010. Amidst heated emotions and revelry, residents of the Cuban province of Villa Clara came out to the streets to celebrate the election of their province as national venue for the forthcoming festivities marking Cuba’s National Rebellion Day on July 26. More...
Cuban Pediatric Surgeon Joins Global Organization
Cuba, June 23, 2010.- Cuban pediatric surgeon Rafael Manuel Trinchet is one of the 25 representatives of Global Paediatric Surgery Network (GPSN), a non-profit NGO that serves as a clearing house for volunteer work performed by pediatric surgeons around the world. More...
Cuba Achieves Oral Health Despite the Blockade
CUBA, June 21, 2010. Cuba has completed oral health goals for children despite the U.S. blockade. Doctor Estela Gisper, president of the Cuban Dentistry Society, explained to journalists in Havana that among the achievements is the absence of cavities in 50 percent of the population between five and six years old. More...
Cuba a Leader in Addressing Climate Change
The Eighth International Conference on Disaster and the Fourth International Conference of Fire-fighters concluded on Thursday at Havana’s Convention Center. During a presentation on global climate change, the Cuban first vice minister of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), Fernando González said that Cuba is highly vulnerable to climate change because it is a small insular state, located in the tropical region of the planet. More...
Cuba Appoints New Agriculture Minister
CUBA, June 12, 2010. The Cuban Council of State, at the initiative of its president Raul Castro, agreed to promote Gustavo Rodriguez Rollero to the post of Minister of Agriculture in view of the need for the minister of this sector to devote his entire time to the strategic task of the sustained increase of farm-cattle production. More...
Cuban Communist Party Leaders Discuss Plan to Split Havana Province
Cuba, June 10, 2010. First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura on Wednesday presided over an extraordinary plenary meeting of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana. More...
By Yaymara Villaverde Marcé
Over 500 years ago, 95 percent of the Cuban archipelago surface was covered by an exuberant forest.
It was not in vain that in 1492, when Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba he did not hesitate in calling the archipelago the “most beautiful land”; without ever suspecting that years later a long process of disproportionate and irrational use would begin reducing its natural potential to alarming figures. More...
Cuba Beats Argentina in World Volleyball League Debut
CUBA, June 6, 2010. The Cuban men’s volleyball team came out strong in their 2010 World Volleyball League debut on Friday night in Havana showing off their aggressive attack and top notch physical preparation, beating Argentina 3-1.More...
Cuba Celebrates International Children’s Day
CUBA, June 1, 2010. A message of love, happiness, and faith in a better world -possible and urgent- was shouted from the rooftops on Tuesday by Cuban children and adolescents, on the occasion of celebrations for International Children’s Day. More...
Cuban Singer-Songwriter Silvio Rodriguez Acclaimed in Puerto Rico
CUBA, May 31, 2010. Nearly 9,000 Puerto Ricans gave Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez a standing ovation as soon as he took to the stage of the Coliseum of Puerto Rico on Sunday. More...
Alicia Alonso in New York to Receive Tribute from American Ballet Theater
CUBA, May 31, 2010. The founding director of the Cuban National Ballet (BNC), prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, traveled on Sunday to New York where she will receive a tribute from the American Ballet Theater at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House next Thursday in celebration of her 90th birthday. More...
Raul Castro Presided Over Meeting of National Defense Council
CUBA, May 29, 2010. Cuban President Raul Castro presided over a meeting of the National Defense Council to analyze the results of the Bastion 2009 Strategic Exercise and other actions carried out last year to improve the country’s defense readiness. More...
Cuban Tourism Boosts Development
CUBA, May 25, 2010. Detailed information by Cuban Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero, disclosed why the growing spiral of this industry in the Island, despite the hard impact of the global economic crisis. More...
Cuba finished the first stage of the exercise METEORO 2010
CUBA, May 23, 2010. The Cuban population and civil defence organisms concluded on Sunday the first stage of the 2010 Meteor national exercise, which aims to prepare the Cuban people and organizations to face hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis. More...
Cuba Celebrates World Day for Cultural Diversity
CUBA, May 21, 2010. Cuba carried out a wide-ranging program on Friday, on the occasion of the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, promoted by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO). More...
LAST Wednesday’s meeting between President Raúl Castro; Monsignor Dionisio García Ibáñez, archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and president of the Cuban Conference of Catholic Bishops; and Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, archbishop of Havana was described by Ortega as "distinctive and innovative in a highly positive sense," during a press conference in the capital yesterday. More...
China Grants Solidarity Award to Cuban Scientists
CUBA, May 20, 2010. The Changchun Solidarity Prize was awarded on Thursday to two Cuban scientists for their contribution in the development of the Chinese city of Changchun, site of an important cooperation project between both nations. More...
Cuban Researcher Receives the Green Nobel
CUBA, May 20, 2010. The representative of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Havana, Ana Maria Navarro, congratulated Cuban researcher Humberto Rios Labrada who on Monday became the first Cuban to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize, sometimes called the Green Nobel and the largest prize in the world given to grass-roots environmentalists. More...
President Raúl Castro meets with authorities of the Catholic Church
CUBA, May 20, 2010. IN the afternoon of May 19, President Raúl Castro met with Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, Archbishop of Havana, and Monsignor Dionisio García Ibañez, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and chair of the Cuban Conference of Catholic Bishops. More...
Cuba: Exercises Against Possible Disasters
CUBA, May 19, 2010. Cuba will perform this weekend and next June civil defense exercises to prepare the population in the event of high intensity earthquakes and seaquakes, official sources said today.
Following the earthquake in Haiti in January, the Caribbean island saw an intensification of seismic activity with 25 detectable earthquakes, including one last Friday in the western city of Artemisa, about 60 km west of Havana. More...
Cubans to Constitute the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power on Wednesday
CUBA, May 18, 2010. The 169 Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power will be constituted on Wednesday throughout the island, according to the work schedule of the National Electoral Commission (CEN) for the current period of partial elections. More...
Vaccination Programs Have Saved Thousands of Cuban Children
CUBA, May 18, 2010. The Cuban National Immunization Program has saved more than 22,500 children since its implementation in 1962 until 2009, said Dr. Miguel Angel Galindo, an advisor of the national vaccination program who won the 1999 Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Award for Immunization. More...
Raul Castro attended to the closure of the ANAP Congress
CUBA, May 17, 2010. Army General Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, attended to the closure of the Tenth Congress of the National Association of Small Farmers, ANAP, where he expressed to the delegates the confidence of the Revolution, the Communist Party and the Cuban State in the farmers and that their number one mission is: to produce for the Cuban people. More...
Farmers are able to replace imports, said in closing Marino Murillo ANAP Congress
CUBA, May 17, 2010. Marino Murillo, Vice President of the Council of Ministers, said yesterday that the Cuban farmers are in position to raise agricultural yields and thus contribute to import substitution. More...
Cuba: Debates at Farmers Congress Focus on Actual Ag Problems
CUBA, May 15, 2010. Representatives of Cuban farmers and the Ministry of Agriculture debated on the actual problems Cuba is facing in this sphere, where the lack of communication, added to objective adversities, prevent them from achieving their social purpose: to supply enough food to the population. More...
Cuba to Train Elementary School Teachers
CUBA, May 13, 2010. About 10,000 Cuban students are currently interested in entering Teachers Training Schools at the 2010-2011 school year beginning in September, said authorities from this sector.
That initiative will benefit 9th grade graduates, who will reach the bachelors degree in the next four years. More...
Two Cubans among the world's most outstanding experts in the field of vaccine production
CUBA, May 13, 2010. Doctors Luis Herrera Martinez, director of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (IGBC) and Gerardo Guillén Nieto, director of Biomedical Research of the prestigious institution, appear in the selection of top industrial experts in vaccine production worldwide. More...
Over 5,000 Women in the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power
The number of women serving in the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power for 14th mandate period is 5,046, representing 33.4% of the total 15,093 delegates elected during the current electoral process, according to official information given to the press by the National Electoral Commission (NEC), on Monday. More...
New Housing Resolution Promises to Improve Living Conditions in Cuba
CUBA, May 11, 2010. The National Housing Institute of Cuba has recently approved a new resolution authorizing licenses to Cubans who wish to undertake construction projects on their properties. The regulation is aimed at gradually solving housing shortages in the country, one of Cuba’s most pressing problems, by giving Cubans the freedom to build new houses, undertake restoration and renovation projects and to enlarge existing properties. More...
Cuba Shows Healthy Recovery in International Tourism
CUBA, May 11, 2010. After two initial months showing decreases in the amount of visitors, in March and April Cuba recovered its grounds to ratify itself as a leading Caribbean destination in tourism, although it has access to only 50 percent of its natural market because of the U.S. blockade. More...
Cubans Reject Smear Campaign with Large Marches Nationwide
CUBA, May 1, 2010. President Raul Castro headed the May Day celebrations in Havana on Saturday morning when millions of Cubans marched in streets and plazas nationwide to express their support of the Cuban Revolution and against an ongoing anti-Cuba smear campaign led by the United States and its European allies. More...
Cuba to Hold Second Round of Municipal Elections Sunday
CUBA, May 1, 2010. More than 1.5 million eligible Cubans have been called to vote in the second (runoff) round of elections for delegates to the Municipal Assemblies. More...
Raúl presides over central May Day parade
CUBA, May 1, 2010. President Raúl Castro is heading the central parade in Havana for International Workers Day, in which Cubans are repudiating the media campaigns of the United States and the European Parliament against the island. More...
Cubans and Foreigners Out in Droves for May Day Celebrations in Havana
CUBA, May 1st, 2010. A large group of students from the Lenin High School and the Art Instructors’ School opened the May Day parade in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución. The square was filled with students, elementary schoolchildren, families, combatants, artists and workers who turned out for May 1 celebrations and to support of the revolution and its socialist project and to denounce the most recent smear campaign orchestrated by the hegemonic mass media. More...
Cuban VP: Cuban People will Show the World That It is United
CUBA, April 30, 2010. Cuban vice president Esteban Lazo said the Cuban people will march on May Day to show the world that it is united as oppose to what the enemies of the Revolution say. More...
Cuban Vaccination Campaign against the A H1N1 to Conclude on Friday
CUBA, April 29, 2010. Cuba will conclude on Friday the first stage of its vaccination campaign against the A H1N1 influenza virus, and has called citizens who have not received their dose yet to go to health centers in their neighborhood and have it. More...
Over One Thousand Foreign Trade Union Members in Cuba for May Day Celebrations
CUBA, April 29, 2010. More than one thousand trade union members from 32 countries are already in Cuba to participate in the May Day celebrations at Havana’s Jose Marti Revolution Square. More...
May Day: Cubans once again to take to the plazas
CUBA, April 29, 2010. Cubans are once again preparing to return to plazas throughout the country in celebration of International Workers Day and with renewed enthusiasm this year. More...
Cuban University Students to Rally on May Day
This rally will be a good opportunity for students to show the world that they are ready to defend their country, support national economic activities, and face any attack against Cuba’s sovereignty
CUBA, April 28, 2010. The president of the Cuban Federation of University Students (FEU), Gladys Gutiérrez, announced that university students will rally on May Day to protest against the latest smear campaign orchestrated by the United States and the European Union against Cuba. More...
12,986 delegates elected
• Second round on May 2 to elect remaining 2,107 delegates
CUBA, April 27, 2010. ACCORDING to the final figures on last Sunday’s elections, 12,986 delegates were elected, 86% of the 15,093 seats to be covered in the 169 Municipal Assemblies of People's Power. More...
Over 94 Percent Attendance at Electoral Colleges on Sunday
CUBA, April 26, 2010. A total of 8 million 205,994 Cubans, 94.69 of the voters, went to the polls on Sunday, according to the official report given by the president of the National Electoral Commission (CEN), Ana Maria Mari. More...
Golf to Become an Attraction for Tourism in Cuba
CUBA, April 26, 2010. Golf could become a new attraction for tourists visiting Cuba each year because of its popularity among affluent sectors and the magnificent climatic conditions all year round. More...
World Solidarity-With-Cuba Brigade in Havana for May Day
CUBA, April 26, 2010. More than 200 members of the World Solidarity-with-Cuba Brigade are in Cuba to participate in the celebrations for the International Worker’s Day and reaffirm their support of the Cuban Revolution. More...
Cuban Workers’ Confederation Calls for Large Participation in May Day Celebrations
CUBA, April 26, 2010. The Cuban Workers’ Confederation (CTC) issued a call urging the Cuban people to participate in the national May Day celebrations in response to an ongoing anti-Cuba media campaign by the United States and its European allies. More...
Fidel and Raúl vote in municipal elections in Cuba
CUBA, April 25, 2010. THE Cuban leader Fidel Castro voted from his residence for this Sunday’s municipal elections and his sealed vote was sent via the electoral authorities to be deposited in a ballot box, as filmed by national television. President Raúl Castro was the first voter in Electoral College No.1 of Constituency 107, in Plaza de la Revolución municipality. More...
Cuba votes to maintain and improve its Revolution
CUBA, April 25, 2010. A vote for the merits, capabilities and conditions of candidates will be an unequivocal message of Cubans’ confidence in their political system and of their will to maintain and improve it, states a statement from the National Electoral Commission made public today. More...
Cuban VP Calls to Vote for the Homeland
CUBA, April 25, 2010. “No Cuban who is a patriot and a revolutionary must miss this opportunity to vote for the homeland when it is in danger”, said Cuban Vice-President Esteban Lazo after casting his ballot this Sunday. More...
Cubans are the Ones who Vote the Most Times, says Alarcon
CUBA, April 25, 2010. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon said this Sunday in Havana that Cubans are the one who vote the most times all over the world.
Alarcon, after exercising his right to vote in his constituency, said that from the Revolution Triumph in 1959, Cubans have attended polling stations more times than US and Europeans citizens. More...
Elections underway in 29,800-plus polling stations in Cuba
CUBA, April 24, 2010. A total of 24,854 polling stations were open this Sunday throughout Cuba, to welcome the 8.5 million citizens who are to elect delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of People’s Power. More...
Pioneers to March Alongside Workers at May Day Parade
CUBA, April 23, 2010. President of the Jose Marti Pioneers Organization (OPJM) Yamilé Ramos Cordero announced that young members of the organization will join their families in the marches organized for May 1, International Workers Day. More...
Cuba to Hold Municipal Elections on Sunday
Municipal election commissions across the country will hand over voter lists, and ballots, and candidate biographies and photos to electoral district offices on Friday in preparations for the Sunday, April 25 elections for municipal assembly representatives
CUBA, April 23, 2010. Municipal election commissions across the country will hand over voter lists, and ballots, and candidate biographies and photos to electoral district offices on Friday in preparations for the Sunday, April 25 elections for municipal assembly representatives. More...
Successful Results of Election Test Run in La Habana Province
CUBA, April 19, 2010. The results of the election test run in preparation for the April 25 Municipal Assembly elections showed that La Habana Province is ready for this important process. More...
Cuba: Elections Try Out this Sunday
CUBA, April 18, 2010. The Cuban National Electoral Committee (CNE) will carry out a try out this Sunday, a week before partial elections to be held on April 25.
The CNE president Ana Maria Mari said the 149,275 members of the 29 polling stations were trained before the trial. More...
Cuban President Raul Castro Swears In New Attorney General
CUBA, April 17th, 2010. Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz swore Dario Delgado Cura in as Attorney General of the Republic of Cuba and wished him success in his post in an act held on Friday in Havana. Participating in the ceremony were Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, Council of State Vice President and Comptroller General Gladys Bejerano Portela, Supreme Court President Ruben Remigio Ferro, and Minister of Justice Maria Esther Reus Gonzalez. More...
Cuban Professor of Medicine Awarded Brazilian Distinction
CUBA, Apr 15, 2010 .- Brazil’s Dr. Arthur Dominguez Pinto Distinction of Scientific Merit was awarded to Jose Emilio Fernandez Brito, Professor Emeritus with the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana and permanent member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. More...
Cuba as Tourist Destination Arouses Interest of Byelorussians
CUBA, Apr 15, 2010. - Cuba’s tourist image in Belarus is enjoying great interest and love among citizens of that European nation, said in Minsk Cuban ambassador Alfredo Nieves. In a meeting at the embassy with tour operators represented at the 13th International Tourism Fair of Belarus -Rest 2010-, Nieves thanked dozens of travel agents commercializing Cuban tourism products on the Byelorussian market for their presence in the event. More...
Trade Unionists from 21 countries to celebrate May Day in Cuba
CUBA, April 14, 2010.- To date, more than 500 trade union workers from 21 countries have confirmed their presence at the central May Day activities in Cuba, to reaffirm their solidarity with the Revolution.More...
French Senators on a Visit to Cuba
CUBA, Apr 13, 2010. - A delegation of six French senators, headed by socialist Bernard Piras, president of the france-caribbean friendship group, is on an official visit to Cuba.
Immunization against the A H1N1 Virus Underway in Cuba
CUBA. April 13, 2010. - Some 373, 438 have been immunized against the A H1N1 influenza virus, which represents a third of the more than a million people, including pregnant women, adults, young people, children and all those suffering from any chronic disease, who are considered to be at high risk. More...
Victory Over U.S. Gives Cuba Olympic Ticket
CUBA, April 12, 2010. The Mexican fans supported Cuba all the time in its 3-0 victory over the United States in the final of the NORCECA Youth Men's volleyball completed in Guadalajara.More...
The Revolution, Vilma and the New Woman in Cuba
CUBA, April 8, 2010. - Vilma Espín Guillois, the paradigm of the new woman Cuban socialism calls for, is born every day in our grandmothers, enjoying the great opportunities their granddaughters currently have, in every leader, scientist, worker giving the world their best, as well as in every student trying to succeed. More...
Training for Participants in the Cuban Electoral Process
CUBA. April 6, 2010. - According to the information provided by various provinces, those tens of thousands of participants in the April 25 elections are being properly trained in order to have a successful electoral process. More...
Information for travelers to Cuba
The Government of Cuba decided last February 16, that all travelers, foreign and Cubans living abroad, coming to the island from May 1, 2010 and thereafter shall take out a medical insurance policy. To meet such requirement, travelers shall have a travel insurance which covers medical expenses or a policy for medical expenses with coverage in Cuba. More...
First VP Machado Ventura Participates in Youth Congress
CUBA, April 3, 2010. - First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura is participating in the first day of sessions of the 9th Congress of the Young Communist League (UJC) that takes place at Havana’s Convention Center on Saturday and Sunday. More...
Over half a Billion Dollars from International Collaboration Used for Local Development in Cuba
CUBA, March 31, 2010. Cuba benefited in 2009 from works and services valued at more than 530 million dollars, the fruits of economic cooperation programs between international organizations and local governments on the Caribbean nation.More...
Social Security Guaranteed in Cuba
CUBA; March 31, 2010. - Juventud Rebelde spoke with Esther Criollo, a specialist at the National Institute of Social Security, after the 12th Central American and Caribbean Conference on Social Security that recently concluded in Havana.More...
Two Decades of Communion in Struggle
CUBA. March 31, 2010. - The 20th anniversary of a meeting of leaders of Cuba’s protestant and evangelical churches and the Jewish community with Commander in Chief Fidel Castro on April 2, 1990, was marked yesterday in Havana during a function presided over by the Cuban head of state, Raul Castro.More...
Vaccination Campaign against A (H1N1) Virus Starts Today in Cuba
CUBA, April 1, 2010. - A National Vaccination Campaign against the pandemic A (H1N1) influenza virus starts today in Cuba during which 1.124 million vulnerable people will be immunized. More...
CUBA, March 30, 2010. Cuban President Raul Castro attended on Tuesday the political and cultural ceremony held on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Fidel’s meeting with religious leaders. More...
H1N1 Immunization Program to Start in Cuban Eastern Province
CUBA, March 30, 2010. Around 88, 500 people from Santiago de Cuba will be immunized against the H1N1 virus in a campaign starting April 1 after the World Health Organization donated the vaccine to Cuba. More...
Cuba: Real Commitment to Human Rights
CUBA, Mar 30, 2010. - The monumental media campaign on Cuba by the United States has precisely its Achilles'' heel on the issue chosen to attack a country that has a real commitment to human rights. More...
Cuba: Real Commitment to Human Rights
CUBA, Mar 30, 2010. - The monumental media campaign on Cuba by the United States has precisely its Achilles'' heel on the issue chosen to attack a country that has a real commitment to human rights.
Carrying upon shoulders the execution of wars of massive extermination from Hiroshima to Afghanistan, Washington lacks moral authority to draw up guidelines to the Cubans on how to respect and promote especially the right to life. More...
Biographies and Pictures of Candidates for Upcoming Elections on Display
CUBA, March 29, 2010. The biographies and pictures of the 34,763 candidates recently chosen for the upcoming nationwide partial elections are exhibited in public places since last Sunday.
This important step will help voters and the people, in general, get acquainted with the work and merits of all those who were chosen as candidates for delegates to Municipal Assemblies. More...
FRANCE, Mar 28, 2010. - Spring has arrived in France coinciding with the Third Viva Cuba Round, just concluded here to promote Cuban tourism and culture.
Participants talked a lot about Cuba's beaches, historic values and culture during the week-long campaign in Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Nice and Lyon, and the unexpected appearance of singer Omara Portuondo. More...
Cuba's Work to Prevent the A H1N1 Virus Acknowledged by PAHO-WHO
CUBA, Mar 26, 2010. - The work carried out in Cuba to prevent the spreading of the A H1N1 influenza virus was acknowledged on Friday by Doctor Lea Guido, representative on the island of the Pan-American and World Health organizations (PAHO-WHO). Guido highlighted. More...
Cuba Successfully Performs First Surgery on an Animal Fetus
CUBA, March 25, 2010. - Cuban specialists have successfully performed the country’s first operation on a fetus in a ewe in its 90th day of gestation. Dr. Miguel Gonzalez, a specialist at the William Soler Pediatric Hospital in Havana, said that the success of the surgery is a sign that surgery on human fetuses is not far off.More...
Cuban Neonatal Surgery Services Grow
CUBA, Mar 25, 2010. - Cuba develops regional centers for neonatal surgery, and introduces the videoendoscopy service nationwide, to meet the needs of the population, an expert affirmed here.More...
Cuba: Rewarding Percutaneous Surgery on Children
CUBA, Mar 25, 2010. - Children and adults should be favored with the advantages of the percutaneous surgery, which is a minimally invasive procedure that reduces the time people need to stay in hospitals and the costs of the operation.More...
Nationwide Electoral Process Running Smoothly
CUBA, March 19, 2010. - The President of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Ana Maria Mari Machado, said the first stage of the Cuban electoral process is running smoothly across the island with people electing candidates for municipal assemblies. More...
Nationwide Electoral Process Running Smoothly
CUBA, March 19, 2010. - The President of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Ana Maria Mari Machado, said the first stage of the Cuban electoral process is running smoothly across the island with people electing candidates for municipal assemblies. More...
Cuba Advances in the Use of Stem Cells
CUBA, March 18, 2010. - Cuba has taken another step in the orthopedic use of stem cells with the beginning of a pilot study for the application of this advanced scientific procedure in the treatment of knee degenerative osteoarthritis.
Democracy in Cuban Elections is Guaranteed
CUBA, March 11, 2010. - Some eight million 400 thousand voters, 71 per cent of the Cuban population, have the right to participate in this year’s partial elections, the nomination assemblies of which are underway until March 24. More...
Cuba: An Example of Participative Democracy
CUBA March 11, 2010.- “The electoral process that is currently underway in Cuba is an example of a true participative democracy in which the people directly elect their government representatives,” Ana Maria Mari Machado, President of the National Electoral Commission, told ACN today. More...
Cuba: neither Pressure nor Blackmail
Media campaign on hunger strike of a counterrevolutionary
CUBA; March 9, 2010. - Important western media outlets have once more caught people’s attention with prefabricated lies. In this way, they meet the interests of imperialism against Cuba. More...
Spanish Singer Describes US blockade of Cuba as Torture
CUBA, Mar 8, 2010. - Spanish singer Miguel Bosé described this Monday the US economic, financial, and commercial blockade against Cuba as “torture”, during the presentation of “Cardio”, his latest album. More...
A Party without Electoral Purposes and a Guarantor of the Elections
CUBA, March 8, 2010. - Unlike the universal practice, the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) has since its creation nearly half a century ago, the thesis that it is not an institution for electoral purposes: neither appoints candidates nor elects them. More...
More Women Nominated for the Upcoming Elections in Cuba
CUBA, Mar 5, 2010. - The nomination to date of 113 women as candidates for delegates in the eastern province of Las Tunas, is further evidence of the important role of females in the work of the Cuban society. More...
Large Participation in Nomination Assemblies for Upcoming Elections
CUBA, March 4, 2010. - In spite of the inclemency of the weather, nationwide assemblies to nominate candidates for the upcoming partial elections are taking place smoothly and with a large electors’ attendance. More...
For whom is death a useful tool?
CUBA; March 2, 2010. - THE total lack of martyrs within the Cuban counterrevolution is proportional to its lack of scruples. It is not easy to die in Cuba, not because life expectancy now parallels that of the developed world – nobody dies of hunger, despite a lack of resources — but because the law and honor prevails. Cuban mercenaries can be detained and tried in accordance with existing legislation. More...
Cuba Will Not Attend Central American Games in Puerto Rico
CUBA, Feb 26, 2010. - The Cuban Olympic Committee (COC) announced on Friday that the island will not attend the Central American and Caribbean Games scheduled for July 17-August 1 in Puerto Rico. More...
Cuba Prioritizes Quality in Health Services
CUBA; Feb 26, 2010. - Cuban Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer Cabrera stressed the need to uphold the achievements of the Cuban public healthcare system at all costs while addressing the general assessment meeting of the Department for Cooperation, Foreign Affairs and Information of the Ministry of Health on Wednesday. More...
Cuban Municipal Elections Underway
Cuba, Feb 26, 2010. - The first 175 nomination assemblies were announced on Wednesday in Cuba as a lead up to the nationwide municipal elections to be held on April 25. The assemblies are the stage where candidates are nominated for the position of municipal representative. More...
Cuba Starts Trial on Natural Drug to Fight Cancer and AIDS
CUBA, February 23, 2010. The effects of anamú tablets, a drug made from the leaves of this plant, will be tried from March in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba. More...
●In three days time extends to eastern and central regions
CUBA, Feb 22, 2010. - ON Sunday, the 19th International Book Fair celebrated its closing event in the Morro-Cabaña Fortress, in the confidence that the successful book fiesta is to move on to 15 other cities in the country. More...
Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Presents Book at the Havana Fair
CUBA, February 18, 2010. Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia presented on Thursday at Havana’s International Book Fair the volume Encuentro con la Verdad, in which he narrates passages of the revolutionary struggle at the Sierra Maestra Mountains. My main motivation to write this book, explained Garcia, was to share with the people and especially with youngsters the events of this stage of combat against the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. More...
Raúl attends tribute to Juan Almeida
YESTERDAY, representing the stage and visual arts, an outstanding group of artists and performers proclaimed the permanent validity of the historic phrase shouted by Juan Almeida shortly after the Granma yacht landing – "No one surrenders here!" – during a commemoration evening attended by President Raúl Castro. More...
Cuba: Ninth as Tourist Destination in the Americas
CUBA, February 16, 2010. Cuba occupies position number nine as tourist destination in The Americas, underlined Miguel Alejandro Figueras, consultant with the island’s Tourism Ministry, on the occasion of the International Underwater Photography Contest. Más...
Cuba Provides Special Job Offers to the Physically Impaired
CUBA, February 16, 2010. Physically impaired people in Cuba have the opportunity to contribute to society by joining one of 150 special workshops created as a result of efforts to secure jobs to this population group. More...
Fidel and Raul Pay Last Respects to Major General Sio Wong
CUBA, February 13, 2010. Wreaths sent by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and President Raul Castro accompanied on Friday the funeral of Major General from the reserve (R) Moises Sio Wong at Havana’s Colon Cemetery. More...
Great Performance in Mexico of Grammy Winner Omara Portuondo
CUBA, February 13, 2010. Media outlets described Omara Portuondo’s performance on Thursday at Mexico City’s Metropolitan Theater as “a pleasant evening” and “a superb concert”. More...
Dayron Robles Remains Undefeated in Europe
CUBA, February 10, 2010. For the third consecutive race in Europe 110 meter hurdler Dayron Robles wins the 60 meter event, this time in Stockholm, Sweden. More...
Chucho Valdes back in Havana after Participating in the Grammy Awards Ceremony
CUBA, February 9, 2010. Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes returned to Cuba on Tuesday from the United States, after participating in the 52nd edition of the Grammy Awards, held in the city of Los Angeles. More...
CONFEDERACY OF TREATY SIX FIRST NATIONS
“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man”. More...
Omara Portuondo will Perform on Thursday in Mexico
CUBA, February 8, 2010. Omara Portuondo will present next Thursday in Mexico her latest album “Gracias” (Thanks), which earned her a Latin Grammy Award in the category of best contemporary tropical album. More...
Cuban art in China’s Gran Meliá Shanghai Hotel
CHINA, February 5, 2010. Works by more than 60 Cuban artists decorate China’s Gran Meliá Shanghai Hotel, inaugurated yesterday by Manuel Marrero, Cuban minister of tourism. More...
Cuban Contemporary Artists Exhibit their Works in Madrid
CUBA, February 4, 2010. Pieces by Cuban artists Belkis Ayon and Los Carpinteros make up the Latin American contemporary art exhibition pertaining to the Daros Collection, inaugurated on Wednesday at the City Art Hall of Madrid’s Santander Group. More...
Publishing Houses from 40 Nations at Havana Book Fair
CUBA, February 3th, 2010. Everything is ready for the official inauguration on February 11 of one the country’s most popular cultural events, the 19th Havana International Book Fair, to be held at the Morro-Cabaña Complex. More...
Cuban Emigration Part and Parcel of Cuban Nation
Cuba. Feb 2, 2010. - Émigrés meeting in Havana demanded freedom for the Cuban Five, and end of the U.S. blockade and the return to Cuba of Guantanamo naval base. More...
Cuba Starts Checking Electoral Roll
CUBA, Jan 28, 2010. - Cuban authorities will start checking Thursday electoral roll for the upcoming partial elections, to elect delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of the People''s Power on April 25. More...
Cuban Immigrants to Meet with Cuban Authorities in Havana
CUBA. Jan 26, 2010. - Some 450 Cubans who live abroad will participate in a series of meetings with Cuban authorities from January 27 to 29 in Havana to discuss new strategies on how to fight for the end of the US blockade and the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists being unjustly held in the United States. More...
Meeting of Cubans Residing Abroad To Take Place in Havana
CUBA, Jan 25, 2010. - A meeting of more than 400 representatives of Cubans residing abroad with authorities from the island will take place in Havana from January 27 to 29, the International Press Center announced today. More...
CUBA, Jan 18, 2010. - Cuba put in motion the partial elections process with massive participation of citizens as expression of its democratic nature. More...
Jury of Casa de las Americas Prize Presented in Havana
CUBA, Jan 18, 2010. - With the presentation of the jury of the Casa de las Americas Prize 2010, the program of one of the eldest literary contests of the continent commenced. More...
Cuban Hurricane Victims Receive New Petro-houses
Cuba, January 5, 2010 .—The local government of the Cuban special municipality of Isla de la Juventud presented 42 of the families who lost their homes during 2008 devastating hurricane season with brand new petro-houses. More...
Cuba to Hold Partial Elections in April
Cuba, Jan 5. - The partial elections to appoint delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of the People’s Power will take place in Cuba on April 25, 2010. More...
Cuba Maintains Infant Mortality Rate under Five in 2009
Cuba, Jan 4. - Cuba concluded 2009 with an infant mortality rate of 4,8 deaths per every one thousand live births – similar to the all-time lowest of 4,7 attained in 2008 – in spite of the current Influenza A H1N1 pandemic. More...
Cuba, January 2, 2010. - What a year, 2009 has been for Omara Portuondo. The beloved Cuban singer released her latest album Gracias, for which she won a Latin Grammy Award, and celebrated 60 years of her career as a singer. More...
Cuban Hospitals to Have SUMA Technology
Cuba, January 2, 2010. - The Ultra Microanalytic System (SUMA) will help improve the quality of life of Cubans by helping in the prevention of diseases Cuba’s Immune Testing Center will be extending its Ultra Microanalytic System (SUMA) to all the regions of the country in 2010, to contribute to preventing diseases and improving the quality of life of the people, the head of this institution, Jose Luis Hernandez Yero, told the AIN news agency. More...
Postage Stamp with Fidel Image Cancelled in Cuba
Cuba, Dec 28 A postage stamp with the image of Fidel Castro in the United Nations’ headquarters was issued today to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More...
Legislator Forecasts Growth in Cuban Economy for 2010
Cuba, Dec 20. - Cuban Deputy Osvaldo Martinez said on Sunday that Cuba's economic growth for the coming year, estimated at 1.9 percent, will have to be achieved in a global economy scenario where uncertainty about the possible course of the global crisis prevails. More...
Raul Castro: Cuban People Ready to Defend the Revolution at All Costs
Cuba, Dec 21 President Raul Castro said on Sunday that the Cuban people are ready to protect the Revolution at all costs. More...
Cuban President Raúl Castro Closes Final Session of Cuban Parliament
Cuba, Dec. 21—“I congratulate our heroic and revolutionary people and wish them renewed success in the 52nd year of the Revolution.” With this message, President Raúl Castro ended his closing speech at the final session of the National Assembly of People’s Power. More...
Cuban Economy Grows by 1.4 Percent in 2009
Cuba, December 20 -- The Cuban economy grew by 1.4 percent in 2009, in a year during which it suffered the impact of the global economic and financial crisis, according to a report read by Marino Murillo, Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Planning and the Economy. More..
Cuban President Raúl Castro: Much Work Awaits Us in the New Year
Cuba, December 20 -- Cuban President Raúl Castro delivered a speech before the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Seventh Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power on Sunday, wrapping up the legislative session at the Palacio de Convenciones in Havana. More...
Deputy FM Highlights Cuba’s Achievements in International Arena
Cuba, Dec 16. - Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina Gonzalez highlighted on Wednesday the island’s achievements in the international arena this year, which confirmed the isolation of Washington’s anti-Cuba policies. More...
Cuban Parliament: New Environmental Law in Focus
Cuba, Dec 17. - The implementation of environmental legislation as a mechanism to guarantee the preservation of the environment and a guide for future work was the center of attention of the members of the Cuban Parliament’s Commission for Energy and the Environment on Thursday. More...
National Parliament Commissions to Discuss 2010 State Budget
CUBA, December 17, 2009.- The 12 Permanent Commissions of the Cuban Parliament begin meeting Wednesday and Thursday in Havana to discuss the implementation of the 2009 State budget and proposals for the upcoming year. More...
Cuban Parliament Permanent Commissions End Deliberations
CUBA, December 17, 2009.- The permanent commissions of the Cuban People's Power National Assembly are concluding Thursday in this capital the two-day deliberations prior to the Parliament''s ordinary period of sessions. More...
Cuban First V P Urged to Improve Health Services
CUBA, November 11, 2009. First Cuban vice president José Ramón Machado Ventura urged on Wednesday to improve health services on the basis of efficiency and rationality, reported the evening news. More...
Seasonal Flu Vaccination Begins in Cuba on Monday
CUBA, November 9, 2009. A vaccination campaign against the seasonal flu virus begins today in Cuba aiming at protecting some 900,000 vulnerable people. More...
Cuban Diva Omara Portuondo Asks US Government to End Blockade of Cuba
CUBA, November 6, 2009. Cuban diva Omara Portuondo, who just Latin Grammy Award in the category of Best Contemporary Tropical Album, said on Thursday that it would be better for everyone if the US Government lifted its economic blockade of the Caribbean nation. More...
Opportunity for commercial and industrial integration
CUBA, November 4, 2009. The 27th Havana Trade Fair (FIHAV 2009), which runs from November 2 to 7, is proving that Cuba will continue to be an attractive market for foreign businesses, despite the current international crisis and restrictions imposed by the blockade that the United States has maintained against the island for 50 years. More...
The Cuba-Venezuela Cable: a Step toward Technological Independence
CUBA, November 3, 2009. The underwater optical fiber cable that will connect Cuba, Jamaica and Venezuela was recently described in this capital as an important step toward Latin American and Caribbean independence in telecommunications. More...
FIHAV 2009 Dedicated on Tuesday to Canada, Argentina and Russia
CUBA, November 3, 2009. Havana’s 27th International Fair (FIHAV 2009), which opened its
doors on November 2 with the presence of 1, 230 companies from 54 countries, will be dedicated on Tuesday to Canada, Russia and Argentina. More...
Omara Portuondo One of Presenters of the Grammy Latino Awards
CUBA, November 2, 2009. Renowned Cuban singer Omara Portuondo will be one of the presenters during the Grammy Latino Awards which will be broadcasted from Las Vegas across the US by Univision. More...
Cuba Develops Vaccination Campaign Against Seasonal Flu
CUBA, October 31, 2009. As of November 9 Cuba is to carry out a vaccination campaign against seasonal flu aimed at people over 75 years of age and other risk groups, reported an expert on Friday. More...
Cuba Again Receives Two Million Visitors
CUBA, October 31th, 2009. For the sixth consecutive year, Cuba has received two million visitors, and this time 15 days earlier than in 2008, which is a reason for rejoicing by the smokeless industry, reports the Ministry of the Tourism. More...
Havana Taken Over by the Theater
CUBA, October 31, 2009. This weekend Havana will be a city taken over by the theater after the inauguration of the 8th International Festival that brings to Cuba artists from 16 countries and is celebrating 50 years of stage activity in Revolution. More....
Foreign Affairs Minister Rodríguez Parrilla’s Reply to the Speech Given by the U.S. Representative
I feel obligated to respond to the speeches given by the United States, the European Union, and Norway.
I should say to the European Union that Cuba recognizes absolutely no moral authority to dictate models or give advice on the matter of democracy. I want to remind it of its complicity in the acts of torture that occurred at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib and reiterate that as long as it maintains a two-faced and hypocritical position, it will not enjoy any credibility. More...
Cuba FM at UN for Blockade Debate
United Nations, October 27, 2009. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez arrived in New York Tuesday, to attend the UN General Assembly's debate Wednesday on the US blockade against Cuba. More...
World Charges again at US Blockade on Cuba
United Nations, October 25, 2009. The United Nations General Assembly will vote on Wednesday for a resolution against the US government blockade on Cuba, after 30 Heads of State and Government condemned that seige before that same authority. More...
US Blockade Hinders Cuban Culture
CUBA, October 23, 2009. Cuba's impossibility of marketing a part of its cultural product is another consequence of the US-imposed economic, commercial and financial blockade to this island. More...
Strong Condemnation in Kenya to the genocidal Blockade against Cuba
KENYA, October 22nd, 2009. In a Press conference offered at the premises of the Embassy of Cuba in this country, the Cuban ambassador, Julio César González Marchante, demanded the immediate cease of the genocidal blockade imposed by the United States government to the island during the last 50 years. More...
Los Muñequitos: Nominee to the Latin Grammy Once Again
CUBA, October 22th, 2009. Diosdado Ramos left behind his dream of being crowned an Olympic champion in the 51 kilogram division to immerse himself for good in the clamor of rumba. "I’m from Havana," he said, "but I always defended the colors of the Matanzas province in national boxing championships. That was back in the 1960’s. I wanted to be like my uncle Ultiminio, a legend of Cuban pugilism. There was when I would have liked to replace Orlandito Martínez and win that medal in Munich. But my destiny was going to be a different one and I’m proud of it. I carried the rumba in my blood and in my feet, you see, and I have devoted my entire life to it." More...
Cuba Denounces U.S. Blockade before European Parliament
CUBA, October 22, 2009. Cuba presented a report on its U.N. resolution demanding the end of the U.S. blockade against the island during a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasburg, France. More...
Cubans in Russia Reject US Blockade
RUSSIA, October 22, 2009. The Association of Cuban Residents in Russia reiterated their rejection of the US blockade against the Island after attending a meeting of the Cuban community in Europe held in Barcelona recently. More...
Cuban and Bolivian Parliamentarians Condemn US Blockade of Cuba
CUBA, October 21, 2009. The Joint Statement of the 3rd Cuba-Bolivia Inter-Parliamentarian Meeting ratified its condemnation of the US financial, commercial and economic blockade against the Caribbean nation, at the end of the meeting’s sessions in this capital. More...
Cuban Minister Abel Prieto Highlights Prominence of the Island’s Culture
CUBA, October 21, 2009. Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto highlighted in this city that the best of the country’s artistic and intellectual creation is always next to the people, even in the hardest moments. More...
Cuba: US Blockade, Extra-Territorial Blunder
FRANCE, October 20, 2009. Cuba underlined the extraterritorial nature of the US near 50-year blockade and mentioned as example its effects on its relations with Europe, namely with France. More...
Prizes for Cuban Culture in Germany and the Bahamas
CUBA, October 20, 2009. The album "Classica Cubana" has been awarded the Classics without Borders Special Prize in Germany, while a stand from the island ended second in the International Culture Festival held in Bahamas. More...
Cuban Ambassador to Belize Denounces US Blockade Against Cuba
Belize, October 18, 2009. National TV Program “Belize Exposure” was dedicated to Cuba with an exclusive interview to Cuban Ambassador to Belize Manuel Rubido. During more than 2 hours, the Cuban diplomat explained different aspects of Cuba’s current reality and it’s bilateral and cooperation ties with Belize. More...
Blockade Policy Is Still Intact and Its Regulations Are Being Fully Applied
CUBA, October 13, 2009. The criminal, illegal and immoral essence of the blockade imposed by the United States was once again exposed during a public hearing convened by the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power. More...
Cuba Prioritizes Treatment of the Elderly
CUBA, October 2, 2009. Cuba possesses specialized geriatrics services throughout the country, as part of the actions to prolong, with quality, the life of its inhabitants, despite of the blockade of United States. More...
No Dengue Epidemics in Cuba, Says Deputy Health Minister
CUBA, September 25, 2009. There is not a dengue epidemics in Cuba and no deaths have been reported from this disease during the current year, Deputy Health Minister in charge of the Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology sector Luis Estruch Rancaño told Granma newspaper. More...
Borders Fade out at Havana Concert for Peace
CUBA, September 24, 2009. Despite hatred campaigns and harsh criticism against his idea of making a giant concert in Cuba, Colombian singer Juanes and other guest artists performed in Havana on Sunday afternoon before a crowd of over one million people, mostly dressed in symbolic white T-shirts. More...