Cuba Bets on Nature Tourism

Havana, August 28 (RHC) -– Cuba continues to develop Nature Tourism, a modality that contributes important revenues to the island’s economy, despite its still low number of enthusiasts. ... More


Havana, August 28 (RHC) -– Eastern Santiago de Cuba, the city with largest risk of quake occurrence on the island, is the scenario of an ongoing project to strengthen seismic risk reduction management in house construction, with the participation of the people and local authorities.... More


La Paz, August 27 (RHC)-- A Cuban delegation of young people participating in the Sao Paulo Forum held in Bolivia denounced Wednesday the U.S. subversive actions against Cuba and the manipulation of Latin American youth to accomplish their objective.... More


Johannesburg, August 27 (RHC) –- About 145 students from South Africa are leaving on Thursday, flying to Cuba to study medicine. The students have been awarded seven year scholarships. They will join hundreds of other South African students already studying medicine in Cuba.... More


Mexico City, August 27 (RHC) -– The Association of Sugar Technicians of Cuba (ATAC) plans to establish cooperation mechanisms with Costa Rican and Guatemalan related organizations in order to contribute to the professional development of their members, the organization said this week.... More


Havana, August 27 (RHC)-- “Hugo Chávez: My First Life,” a biographic interview with the Venezuelan leader by French-Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet, was the best-selling book this summer in Cuba, according to the Cuban Book Institute (ICL).... More


Havana, August 27 (RHC) -- The documentary "Viaje al país que ya no existe" (A Trip to a Country That No Longer Exists) will help Cubans to update their perception of Vietnam, said Duong Minh, Vietnamese Ambassador to Havana.... More


Havana, August 26 (RHC) -– Eight-year-old Marlon Mendez, who has a large collection of photos of Fidel Castro, has personally met with the leader of the Cuban Revolution.... More


Havana, August 26 (RHC) -– At the 20th Sao Paulo Forum in Bolivia, Cuba defended the viability of Socialism amid the current world crisis, which causes violence, instability, discontent and insecurity in many countries.... More


Havana, August 26 (RHC) -- Cuba has witnessed a thriving private sector as the number of the self-employed increased by 3.4 percent in five months, according to local newspaper Trabajadores.... More


Havana, August 26 (RHC) -– One million 800,000 students will be at their desks in Cuban schools on September 1st as the 2014-2015 school years opens on the island, according to preliminary figures cited by Education minister Ena Elsa Velasquez.... More


Bridgetown, August 26 (RHC) -– The leader of The Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, said in Barbados that Fidel Castro made solidarity among the peoples the reason of his existence.... More


Havana, August 26 (RHC) -– The new Cuban labor code, adopted by the island's National Assembly, is in tune with the country’s social reality as it recognizes both the state socialist companies as major economic structure and the non-state sector.... More


Santiago de Cuba, August 26 (RHC) -– A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Cuba on Monday evening, the National Seismological Center reported.... More


Beirut, August 25 (RHC) -- An extensive program about the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, was broadcast by the Lebanese pan-Arabist channel Al-Mayadeen, on the occasion of the Cuban leader's 88th birthday.... More


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