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


Dublin, August 25 (RHC) -– Irish people trying to use an Irish bank to transfer money to people living in Cuba, are being blocked from doing so as a result of a United States economic blockade on the Caribbean country, which has been in place for more than 50 years, writes Conor Pope in the Irish Times. ... More


Manama, August 25 (BNA-RHC) -– In the capital of Bahrain on Monday, the Minister of State for Defense Affairs and President of the Supreme Council for Health, Lieutenant-General Dr. Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al Khalifa met the Riyadh-Resident Cuban Ambassador to Bahrain, Jose Enrique Rodriguez.... More


Havana, August 25 (RHC) -– Agricultural production in Cuba grew 17.6% during the first half of 2014 over the same period of 2013, but still has not reached the level of seven years ago, says an analysis published in the Juventud Rebelde daily.... More


Havana August 25 (AIN-RHC)-- Wetlands in Cuba have an area of some 10,000,410 square kilometers, equivalent to 9.3 per cent of the country's surface, including marshes, reservoir and interior or coastal boggy areas. ... More


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