Mexico City, August 7 (Xinhua-RHC) -- Mexico will open the state-controlled oil sector to foreign investment for the first time since 1938 after the Congress gave final approval Wednesday to an historic energy reform.... More


Havana, August 7 (RHC) -– The Cuban Young Communist League (UJC) condemned the use of Latin American youth in a project by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), aimed at subverting social order in the country.... More


Bogota, August 7 (RHC) -– Cuban Vice President and Comptroller General Gladys Bejerano was granted the Medal of Merit for the Transparency of Fiscal Control in Colombia, where she is heading the island’s delegation to the swearing-in ceremony of President Juan Manuel Santos.... More


Havana, August 7 (RHC) -– The Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba confirmed the island’s attendance to the Milan 2015 World Expo, to be held next year from May 1st through October 31st in that Italian city.... More


Havana, August 7 (RHC) – The Angola-Cuba Friendship Association (ASAC) today described the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, as one of the most brilliant men of the twentieth century, in a message sent to him on occasion of his 88th birthday, on August 13th.... More


Havana, August 7 (RHC) –- A photo and audiovisual exhibit by Cuban film maker Roberto Chile will open August 12th at Havana’s Jose Marti Memorial as part of activities here to mark the 88th birthday of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro.... More


Havana, August 7 (RHC) -- The coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Hector Guerra, has praised Cuba's work in favor of peace and world security.... More


First rate Cuban musicians will participate in the first Cuban Music Festival of Vancouver, Canada, from October 16 through 19th.... More


Sports News Roundup Aug 7

Cuba got expected wins of Robeisy Ramírez and Arlén López in their initial presentations in the qualifier that completes the distribution of quotas for Veracruz 2014.... More


Gaza City, August 6 (RHC)-- Palestinian residents of Gaza are returning to massive devastation on the second day of a 72-hour ceasefire. Estimates of the reconstruction costs run as high as $6 billion. More than 10,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 5,000 have seen major damage. ... More


Caracas, August 6 (RHC) -- Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez on Tuesday said the country's energy sector has brought in 510 billion U.S. dollars in oil revenues since it was nationalized in 2003.... More


Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has raised the prospect of new executive action on immigration reform after Congress failed to send him legislation. ... More


Buenos Aires, August 6 (Mercopress-RHC) -- The 83-year-old head of the Argentinian human rights movement which works to track down babies stolen by the country's brutal 1976-83 military dictatorship has found her grandson after a 35-year search.... More


Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama is backing Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan in the face of calls for Brennan’s resignation. Brennan admitted last week that CIA officials spied on a Senate panel probing the agency’s torture and rendition program, months after he made an initial denial. ... More


Havana, August 6 (RHC) -– Cuba has demanded the end of U.S. subversive plans aimed against the revolutionary government.... More


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