Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:18:26 +0000
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Tuesday ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba, banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel in an attempt to cut off cash to the island’s communist government.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 00:31:41 +0000
Gay-rights activists organizing on social media held an unauthorized march Saturday down eight blocks of one of Havana’s…
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 01:38:57 +0000
The Cuban government announced Friday that it is launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 04:38:48 +0000
Officials say a charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway, though no critical injuries were reported.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:37:49 +0000
More than 1,000 Brazilian doctors who signed up to replace Cuban physicians working in Brazil’s rural areas have quit within three months, the health ministry confirmed Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:45:12 +0000
Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will make the first royal visit to communist-run Cuba on Sunday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:57:38 +0000
HAVANA — Cubans were asked Sunday to send an overwhelming message of approval for the country’s communist system as its founding generation of geriatric former guerrillas cedes the public spotlight to a new class of middle-aged bureaucrats. Voters were expected to overwhelmingly approve the draft of a new constitution that preserves the single-party socialist system […]
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Credit to Author: Tamara Khandaker| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:22:55 +0000
It’s dubbed the Havana Syndrome and its cause is unknown.
Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:15:33 +0000
Neighborhood brigades and teams of government workers hacked at fallen trees and hauled chunks of concrete out of collapsed homes Monday as the Cuban capital attempted to recover from what officials called the strongest tornado to hit Cuba in nearly 80 years.
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Several employees of a Cuban supermarket have been fired for selling 15,000 apples to a single customer in a country regularly plagued by food shortages.
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