Tag: Miguel Diaz-Canel

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:29 UTC

  Cuba names a prime minister for the first time in decades, to decentralize administration

  

  Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday named tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as the country’s first prime minister in decades, under a new constitution that seeks to decentralize former leader Fidel Castro’s job.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Bolivarian countries call Evo's departure from presidency “a coup d'état”

  

  Dignitaries of several Latin America and Caribbean countries Saturday criticized the uprising that led the resignation of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia in - which was dubbed a “coup d'état” in a joint statement in Havanna on the closing day of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) summit to celebrate the grouping's 17th anniversary.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 13:03 UTC

  Hard-time “Special period” creeping back in Cuba, diesel shortage and long queues

  

  Havana awoke on Thursday to long lines at gas stations and public transportation stops after President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned fellow Cubans to expect fuel shortages and blackouts that he blamed on US sanctions.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Maduro says Venezuela is open to receive Colombian ex FARC leaders

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday said two former FARC commanders from neighboring Colombia whose whereabouts are unknown were “welcome in Venezuela,” a statement likely to fuel criticism that he is providing a safe haven for armed groups.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Rationing, long queues and empty shelves in Cuba as the economy heads to recession

  

  As long lines outside shops with mostly bare shelves are increasingly common in Cuba, and the government has indeed signaled that things are going from bad to worse, Havana is blasting president Donald Trump's administration for the hardship and misery.

• Thursday, April 18th 2019 - 07:48 UTC

  Bolton announces further crackdown on “the three stooges of socialism”

  

  The Trump administration on Wednesday intensified its crackdown on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, rolling back Obama administration policy and announcing new restrictions and sanctions against the three countries whose leaders national security adviser John Bolton dubbed the “three stooges of socialism.”

• Monday, April 8th 2019 - 07:48 UTC

  First independent group march authorized in Cuba

  

  Hundreds of Cubans marched peacefully through Havana calling for an end to animal cruelty on Sunday in what organizers believe was the first independent march authorized by the one-party state.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Cubans ratify new one-party socialist constitution with modest economic and social changes

  

  Cubans have overwhelmingly ratified a new constitution that enshrines the one-party socialist system as irrevocable while instituting modest economic and social changes, according to the national electoral commission.

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Cuba: Three dead and 170 injured after tornado passage through Havana

  

  At least three people lost their lives and more than 170 were wounded on Sunday night by the onslaught of a tornado in Havana as a result of an extratropical drop from the Gulf of Mexico that transits the territory of the island, local media confirmed.

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 13:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro adds Nicaraguans to the list of unwanted guests for his inauguration

  

  Brazil's Presdient-elect Jair Bolsonaro will not welcome any Nicaraguan delegation at the inauguration ceremony in Brasilia on January 1, his future Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo announced on Twitter.