Tag: Gramma

• Monday, December 18th 2017 - 13:35 UTC

  Russia again becomes main supplier of oil for Cuban refinery

  

  Venezuela has pulled out of a partnership with Cuba in its Cienfuegos oil refinery and the Caribbean island has taken full ownership of the plant, Cuban state media said. Venezuela is grappling with an economic crisis that already forced it to slash cheap oil shipments to Cuba, which has had a knock-on effect on the island’s ailing economy.

• Sunday, October 23rd 2016 - 06:50 UTC

  Rapprochement with Cuba: Four decades ago Jimmy Carter tried to come to terms with Havana

  

  Four decades ago, U.S. ex president James Carter tried to do in secret what Barack Obama finally achieved publicly and in a less adverse context: to start a process to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. In a long article, the Cuban newspaper Granma reveals that Carter (1976/1980) had been the only US president who set in writing his intention to promote dialogue between Washington and Havana.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 01:11 UTC

  New editors for leading Cuban newspapers: “too much triumphalism and too apologetic”

  

  Cuba has appointed new editors for the country's two main newspapers - Granma and Juventud Rebelde. The shake up in the island's tightly controlled media was described by the Communist Party as a “renewal”.