The efforts of the Government of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to eradicate child labor and concomitant poverty—the outcome of decades of neoliberal policies in that country and in Latin America—are commendable.... More
The World has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of people who consume illegal substances. Drug trafficking is a profitable business, generating billions of dollars as it claims thousands of lives around the globe. ... More
The largest Cuban literary festival- the International Book Fair 2014 has opened its doors to the public in what has now become its customary venue: the multicentenary fortresses of El Morro and La Cabaña, overlooking from the East the beautiful skyline of Havana across the maritime entrance to the ample bay.... More
Cuba has also joined the world campaign "Chavez was here", being conducted in many countries of the world from this Tuesday until Five March, the first anniversary of his untimely death in Caracas, the victim of cancer.... More
Improved health assistance, better education and a higher standard of living for all of the Salvadoran population are included among the main concerns of the ruling government’s Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation in the Central American Republic of El Salvador and this has been its concern of that governmen for the past four years.... More
One of the legacies of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, an organization that he described as the most important contemporary project on the Continent. ... More
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says that the CELAC Summit held on the 28th and 29th of January in Havana made Cuba the capital of Our America -- the united homeland that was the dream of Liberator Simon Bolivar, Cuba's Jose Marti and many other independence heroes in our region.... More
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, came into existence to foster social integration and the wellbeing of the peoples that comprise its regional system of thirty three nations. In a short period of time, CELAC has ostensibly become the active voice of the whole region.... More
As part of recent endeavours by Cuban authorities to expand the acreage under cultivation and to reduce food imports, the Government has announced the distribution of tens of thousands of acres of rent-free farmland to individual private farmers, many of whom are members of Credit and Service Cooperatives across the nation.... More
Havana’s Pabexpo Pavilion is ready to host the meeting of National Coordinators that will take place prior to the 2nd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.... More
The US economic war against Cuba has a direct impact on the island’s food imports destined for schools, nursing homes, hospitals, day-care centers, and the general public. It is a blockade with a direct effect on the nutrition and health of all Cubans.... More
The update of the Cuban economic model experienced advancement in 2013 on the firm grounds and in search of local solutions to domestic problems and to the effects of the world financial crisis that have an impact on the efforts aimed at increasing efficiency.... More
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