Tag: Cuba

Tuesday, April 4th 2017 - 10:18 UTC
Morales vocal cords surgery in Cuba, a success says Bolivian government

Doctors in Cuba removed a benign node from the vocal cords of Bolivia's President Evo Morales, the Bolivian government said.
Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 07:56 UTC
Two US airlines cancel flights to Cuba: excess of capacity

On Monday, two US airlines announced that they have plans to cancel their flights to Cuba, one of which is Fort Lauderdale-based Silver Airways, whose representatives said they had made the “difficult but necessary” decision to cancel its services to Cuba from April 22.
Friday, March 3rd 2017 - 11:55 UTC
Bolivian president rushed to Cuba for medical attention is recovering with “positive outlook”

Bolivian President Evo Morales has been treated for a throat viral infection in Cuba and will stay on the Caribbean island for several days of medical observation, Bolivia's Vice President and acting head of state Alvaro Garcia Linera said on Thursday.
Saturday, February 25th 2017 - 11:23 UTC
Cuba denies visas to OAS chief, ex Mexican president and ex Chilean minister

The Organization of American States Secretary-General Luis Almagro said Wednesday that the Cuban government denied him permission to enter the island to receive a human rights prize created to honor late dissident Oswaldo Paya. Mexican ex-President Felipe Calderon and former Chilean Education Minister Maria Aylwin were denied entry to the island the day before.
Monday, January 2nd 2017 - 12:41 UTC
Castro condemns “obsolete mentality” against foreign capital, as economy contracts

In spite the significant surge in tourism set off by the detente with the United States, Cuba’s economy shrank in 2016 for the first time in nearly a quarter century with the main culprit: a plunge in aid from crisis-stricken Venezuela. President Raul Castro called on the Cuban people to overcome the obsolete mentality against foreign capital.
Monday, December 19th 2016 - 08:22 UTC
Cuban dissidents still under Raul Castro's iron fist despite alleged openness

Government officials have arrested dozens of Cuban dissidents as well as an American human rights lawyer, it was reported Sunday. Others were kept from marching in Havana to demand the relaease of political prisoners in what would indicate that the one-party communist state is in no mood for dissent, despite all that was said to US President Barack Obama and Pope Francis.
Saturday, December 17th 2016 - 16:48 UTC
Raul Castro's Cuba allows farmers to hire workers directly

The Cuban government Friday allowed farmers to hire workers directly and no longer have to go to cooperatives in a step to set aside strict controls on their economy to boost production for a country which imports more than two-thirds of its food. In other areas of the economy, such as restaurants, Cuba has already allowed small business owners to hire their staff directly.
Friday, December 16th 2016 - 23:59 UTC
Google, Cuba close deal to improve speed of internet connection

Google and Cuba's state-owned telecommunications company Etecsa signed an agreement to improve the speed of access to Google products on the Internet, which means an improvement in Internet access on the island, where Google first landed in 2014.
Tuesday, December 13th 2016 - 10:45 UTC
Cuba, Europe normalize relations after 20 years

Cuba and the Eurpean Union Monday signed in Brussels their first cooperation agreement, which will be from now on the legal basis of the link between the island and the 28 EU countries.
Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 17:44 UTC
Cuba and Russia sign defence cooperation agreement

The Vicepresident of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz and Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Friday signed a new defense cooperation agreement in Havana as well as six other treaties in the fields of technology, aviation, medicine and railroad transport.