Tag: Cuba

• Wednesday, December 12th 2012 - 20:43 UTC

  Chavez’ condition delicate after surgery, reveals Maduro and calls for unity in prayers

  

  Despite earlier reports, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is in delicate condition after his latest surgery for cancer, the government said on Wednesday.

• Friday, December 7th 2012 - 05:46 UTC

  Brazil confirms Venezuela’s Chavez will be absent from the Mercosur summit

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez will not be attending the Mercosur summit on Friday as had been previously announced, announced on Thursday the Brazilian Foreign ministry which is hosting the event.

• Tuesday, December 4th 2012 - 03:07 UTC

  Brazil says Venezuela leader Chavez will attend the Mercosur summit Friday

  

  Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez will travel to Brazil for the Mercosur summit next Friday despite cancer-related medical treatment in Cuba, Brazil's ambassador revealed on Monday.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2012 - 00:07 UTC

  In the midst of regional elections Chavez returns to Cuba to continue cancer treatment

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he is returning to Cuba on Tuesday to continue treatment for cancer, raising new questions about his health just weeks after he won re-election to another six-year term.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 04:10 UTC

  “Fidel is alive and well”, says Venezuelan politician who allegedly met with him

  

  Cuban leader Fidel Castro is alive and well, according to Elias Jaua, a former Venezuelan vice president who says he met with Castro over the weekend.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 04:37 UTC

  After half a century Cuba scraps travel restrictions, but they remain for ‘human talent’

  

  Cuba will scrap much reviled travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans' exit and return, state media said on Tuesday, in the Castro brothers’ regime first major immigration reform in half a century.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 07:32 UTC

  Colombian government and guerrillas begin this week peace talks in Oslo

  

  Colombia's government and rebel guerrillas will sit down this week in Norway, and later in Cuba, to start peace talks aimed at ending nearly half a century of conflict, a task to which both sides have anticipated their full commitment.

• Friday, October 5th 2012 - 20:38 UTC

  Cuban prominent blogger detained in Cuba ahead of trial involving Spanish politician

  

  Cuba was reported to have arrested prominent blogger Yoani Sanchez Friday in a crackdown on dissidents as the vehicular manslaughter trial of a Spanish politician got under way here. Angel Carromero, 27 who runs the youth wing of Spain’s ruling Popular Party went on trial for the death of a prominent dissident, Oswaldo Paya, in a car crash near this town in eastern Cuba.

• Thursday, September 20th 2012 - 23:30 UTC

  Cuba prepares for the annual UN General Assembly round clash with the US

  

  Both the United States and Cuba would benefit if Washington would lift its longstanding trade embargo against the island, but US President Barack Obama has toughened the sanctions since taking office in 2009, a top Cuban official said.

• Saturday, September 8th 2012 - 06:07 UTC

  Red tape, bureaucracy and ideology limiting foreign investment in Cuba

  

  Cuba's failure to encourage more foreign investment is crippling its economic performance and putting its goal of sustainable growth in danger unless changes are made, local experts and diplomats said this week.