Tag: Cuba

• Wednesday, July 24th 2013 - 07:15 UTC

  Mujica flies to Havana to meet the Castro brothers and celebrate 60 years of Cuba’s revolution

  

  Uruguayan president and former guerrilla Jose Mujica left Tuesday night for Cuba where he is scheduled to hold meetings with President Raul Castro, the revolution leader Fidel Castro and attend the celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the assault on the Moncada military fort.

• Tuesday, July 9th 2013 - 00:09 UTC

  Brazil drops the idea of Cuban doctors and will hire physicians from Spain and Portugal

  

  The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

• Friday, June 7th 2013 - 03:30 UTC

  Panama, host of next Americas’ summit after consensus to invite Cuba

  

  An “ad hoc” committee, made up of various countries, will advise the Government of Panama, host of the 2015 Seventh Summit of the Americas, regarding a possible invitation to Cuba to participate in the next triennial meeting of Heads of State and Government of the Hemisphere.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2013 - 23:58 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition airs conspiracy recordings against Maduro from his own party

  

  The Venezuelan opposition has released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. Opposition lawmaker Ismael García said the recording captures a phone conversation between state TV personality Mario Silva, a staunch government ally, and a Cuban identified as Lieutenant Colonel Aramis Palacios.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 08:54 UTC

  Cuban doctors to Brazil hinterland in exchange for infrastructure works

  

  Brazil said Monday it was negotiating with Havana the possibility of hiring and bringing in around 6,000 Cuban doctors to work in areas where they are needed in the fifth largest country of the world and with a population of 200 million.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Eight years late Cuba’s Ladies in White collect the Sakharov Prize

  

  Members of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White collected Tuesday the Sakharov Prize that the European Parliament awarded them in 2005, and in the process had harsh words to say about the situation in their homeland.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  Venezuelan presidential candidate Capriles pledges “not another drop of oil to Cuba”

  

  Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate on Monday vowed to end the OPEC nation's shipments of subsidized oil to the Castro brothers regime in Cuba, slamming acting President as a puppet of Havana.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 00:12 UTC

  ”Absolute confidence” of the Cuban regime in Nicolas Maduro

  

  President Raul Castro expressed “absolute confidence” in Hugo Chavez's successors, after returning from the populist leader's funeral in Caracas, the Cuban press reported Sunday.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 00:04 UTC

  Chavez, the best friend of the Cuban people in their history, says Fidel Castro

  

  Cuba's Fidel Castro praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a champion of the poor and said Cubans had lost their best friend ever, in his first comments on the death last week of his socialist ally. Castro said the news, although not unexpected, had been a hard blow.

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 23:29 UTC

  Back in 1994 when Chavez visited Uruguay, “the current ruling coalition did not take him seriously”

  

  Uruguayan former president Jorge Batlle recalled in his Facebook column that when a still unknown Hugo Chavez visited Uruguay back in 1994, the now left-leaning ruling coalition didn’t take him seriously and the leader of the movement at the time General Liber Seregni did not receive him.