Changes in US Cuba policy good first step but it's time to normalize relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">The changes in U.S. Cuba policy announced Friday by the Obama administration represent a welcome first step in changing the failed half-century old policy that has sought to bring change in Cuba by isolating the island nation from the United States.The administration announced that within the next two weeks it would make it easier for religious and academic organizations to send delegations to Cuba; return regulations governing people-to-people trips to Cuba to those that pertained during the Clinton Administration; and expand the number of airports that can be used by tour operators as embarkation points to the island. Read More

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Angolan executive aspires to boost bilateral cooperation

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana – The Angolan Vice President, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Monday in Havana City defended the need for strengthening the historical relations with Cuba, aiming at stability and development of both countries. Read More

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Cuba will not give up Socialism - Ambassador

<p style="text-align: justify;">Suraj A Bandara. Socialism will not be given up by Cuba though certain media propagate that Cuba has changed socialist policy that derived from the Cuban Revolution through ongoing economic reforms, Cuban Ambassador Nirsia Castro Guevera said. Read More

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Guatemalan VP Stresses Cuba''s Humanistic Vocation

<p style="text-align: justify;">Escrito por Ileana Ferrer Fonte.17 de enero de 2011, 09:43Havana, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuba has given Guatemala a special gift with its physicians, who are working and doing great things in the country, Guatemalan Vice President Rafael Espada stated. Read More

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Pingree touring Guantanamo detention facilities

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jan 17, 2011. Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the House Armed Services Committee touring detention facilities Monday, Jan. 17, at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read More

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Cuba to Have Underwater Fiber Optic Cable by July

<p style="text-align: justify;">Escrito por By Roberto Hernandez. 17 de enero de 2011, 12:56. (Prensa Latina) Cuba announced that by July, it will have an underwater fiber optic cable that will increase its current international output capacity by 3,000 percent, but technological and financial gaps prevent it from having mass Internet in the short term. Read More

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Cuba tries doctors for mental hospital mass deaths

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Esteban Israel. HAVANA. Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:46pm EST. HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba opened a trial on Monday against the authorities of a psychiatric hospital where 26 patients died of cold a year ago. Read More

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2011 Casa de las Americas Literary Award Opens Up in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.01.17 - 14:12:36 / [email protected]. Award 2011 Casa de las Americas Literary.HAVANA, CUBA.- The Award 2011 Casa de las Americas Literary will be set in motion with the formal establishment of the jury and the opening words of Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, and the Peruvian anthropologist, Stefano Varese.In its 52 edition, dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas (Deep Rivers, Yawar fiesta) 300 original works are competing in the genres of novels, short stories, testimonies, artistic and literary essay and Brazilian literature in the form of fiction , reports Prensa Latina news agency. Read More

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Cubans with phone line will have “right” to Internet at home

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cubans with a telephone landline will have a “right” to an Internet connection at home, a deputy minister said, according to official news service Prensa Latina.Every Cuban with a phone connection must have, as a general policy, a right to an Internet connection, Prensa Latina paraphrased Ramón Linares, deputy minister of informatics and communications. However, the low number of private phone connections “is one of the impediments” for the deployment of Internet access. Read More

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Aponte pushes flight bill as US eases Cuba travel

<p style="text-align: justify;">By CB Online Staff. [email protected]. New Progressive Party Rep. José Aponte urged lawmakers Monday to take up proposed legislation to lure charter flights to Ponce, citing the easing of U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba as another challenge facing the island’s tourism industry.House Bill 2421 — authored by Aponte and co-sponsored by Reps. Julissa Nolasco and Luis “Tato” León last January — would create an incentive program to land charter service at Mercedita Airport. The measure is aimed at boosting economic development in the southern region and diversifying the island’s tourism offer. Read More

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