Havana, March 5 (RHC) -- Today marks two years since the passing of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and several tributes and memorial events are being held across the island to pay tribute to Cuba's “best friend” –- as Revolution Leader Fidel Castro once called him.... More
Havana, March 5 (RHC) -– Cuba and the European Union have been negotiating a bilateral political and cooperation accord during talks Wednesday and Thursday at the headquarters of the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana.... More
Havana, March 5 (RHC) – Nearly 100 U.S. business representatives and members of the U.S. Agricultural Coalition for Cuba (USACC) concluded a visit to Cuba on Wednesday, having toured agricultural enterprises and exchanged views with local farmers and agribusiness executives.... More
Havana, March 5 (RHC) -– Representatives of different Cuban public entities have been attending a seminar headed by Britain expert and researcher Matthew Cox in Havana.... More
Havana, March 5 (RHC) -– Cuba's International Agriculture and Ranching Fair (Fiagrop-2015), running March 14th to the 22nd will present the island's opportunities to foreign investors in areas related to meat production, industrial processing and sales.... More
Key West, March 5 (RHC) -– A Miami travel company is reviving flights between Key West International Airport and Cuba, according to a report by the Miami Herald.... More
Ciego de Avila, March 5 (RHC) -– Tourist arrivals to the Cuban resort of Jardines del Rey hit a record high in February, with 9,000 visitors that month, tourism officials said.... More
New York, March 5 (MERCOPRESS-RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday named a trustee of a British pension fund as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras and its top executives.... More
Without defining the 4 semifinalists and with the current champion a far cry in 6th place, the 54th Cuban Baseball Championship takes a break on Wednesday with just 12 games to close the present stage prior to the post season.... More
Mexico City, March 4 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The head of one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels known as the Zetas, Omar Treviño Morales, was detained in a joint army and police operation, Mexican officials reported Wednesday. Omar took over the Zetas leadership after his brother, Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, was arrested and jailed in June 2013. ... More
Tripoli, March 4 (RHC)-- Militants have taken control of at least two oil fields in central Libya, an oil industry spokesperson says. "Extremists took control of the al-Bahi and al-Mabrouk fields and are now heading to seize the al-Dahra field following the retreat of the force guarding these sites, due to lack of ammunition," Colonel Ali al-Hassi, the industry's security service spokesman, said on Tuesday. ... More
Santiago de Chile, March 4 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Chilean government responded on Tuesday to a diplomatic complaint from Peru which alleges the country engaged in espionage, Peru's Foreign Affairs Minister Gonzalo Gutierrez confirmed. ... More
Damascus, March 4 (RHC)-- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of supporting ISIL Takfiri militants. Assad made the comments while meeting with a delegation of Turkish opposition figures in the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday. ... More
Caracas, March 4 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Real Venezuela Expo, designed to counter the misconceptions about Venezuela put forward by hostile media outlets, will tour various cities in the United States this year, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday. ... More
San Salvador, March 4 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The son of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the infamous leader of right-wing death squads that terrorized the country in the 1980s, declared himself the winner in the race for mayor of Santa Tecla, a neighboring municipality of the capital of San Salvador. ... More
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