Havana, May 18 (RHC) –- The Cuban Small Farmers Association, ANAP, founded by Fidel Castro 54 years ago, plays a front-line role in the ongoing reform of the country's economic model and is stronger than ever before.... More


Havana, May 18 (RHC) –- Cooperation between Angola and Cuba on oil drilling marks a "fundamental point" on both states bilateral relations, stated the Angolan Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Manuel Augusto.... More


Havana, May 18 (RHC) –- Cuban Vice President Jose Ramón Machado Ventura held talks on Sunday with His Excellency Kanayo Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, who is paying an official visit to Cuba.... More


Johannesburg, May 18 (RHC) -– Three of the five Cuban anti-terrorism fighters -- Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and René González -- will pay a visit to South Africa from June 22nd to July 3rd, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) announced Sunday.... More


Havana, May 18 (RHC) –- The intense drought in Cuba is affecting more than one million people, the official Juventud Rebelde newspaper reported Sunday, citing specialists.... More


Havana, May 18 (RHC) –- For the first time in 15 years, the U.S. administration has authorized the participation of U.S. boats in a yacht race in Cuba. Some twenty U.S. boats have come to Cuba from Key West for the Havana Challenge race to be held on the Havana coast.... More


Havana, May 18 (RHC) –- The total number of mobile lines in Cuba reached the milestone of three million in April, according to data from state-owned telecommunications operator Etecsa.... More


Sports News Roundup May 18

Reynier Mena set a national junior record in the men's 100 meters dash, clocking 10.22 sec. at the Rafael Fortun Sport Memorial staged in the city of Camagüey.... More


Havana, May 18 (RHC) –- A new climbing park has opened in Cuba that is being touted as the first of its kind in Latin America, EFE news agency reports.... More


Caracas, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan agricultural producers have a reason to celebrate as the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization recognized the country's advances in food security and food sovereignty. ... More


Mexico City, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) told the U.N. it will work on the cases of enforced disappearances, as well as the prevention and punishment of further cases, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada reported on Sunday. ... More


Mexico City, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mexican political candidate Hector Lopez Cruz from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was killed in a drive-by shooting on Thursday, marking the latest assassination against a political candidate ahead of Mexico's June 7 mid-term elections. "Today with this cowardly murder, for the first time in recent memory, this act of violence has tainted the electoral process,” the PRI said in a written statement. ... More


Quito, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced on Saturday that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will provide assistance to the thousands of Asian immigrants stranded off the coast of Thailand. ... More


Santiago de Chile, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Over 50,000 people joined the annual March for Equality in the Chilean capital on Saturday. The march, organized by by the Movement of Integration and Sexual Liberation (Movilh) and the Movement for Sexual Diversity (Mums), ended in Santiago de Chile at the presidential palace of La Moneda, with speeches from various activists and political leaders. ... More


Quito, May 18 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Ecuador broke a Guinness World Record on Saturday by mobilizing more than 44,000 people to plant 647,250 trees across the country. ... More


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