More Cuban dissidents arrive in Spain

<p style="text-align: justify;">MADRID (AFP) – Two more political prisoners from Cuba arrived in Spain Thursday, bringing to 25 the number who have reached the country following their release by Havana in a deal with the Catholic Church. Read More

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USA broadening ties with Cuba?

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Obama administration is considering easing travel restrictions to Cuba, raising the prospect of what lifting the half-century-old U.S. trade embargo against the Cuban government might mean for both countries. Read More

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Cell Phone Service to be Expanded in Pinar del Rio

<p style="text-align: justify;">PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Aug 19 (acn) The territorial office of the Telecommunications Company of Cuba (ETECSA) is leading works for the building of the second radio base station in the city of Pinar the Rio with which mobile telephone service will be broadened in the area. Read More

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Sao Paulo Forum Urges US to End Blockade Against Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 19 (acn) The Sao Paulo Forum (FSP) claimed for the lifting of the US economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba and the freedom of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States. Read More

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Baby slapping aboard flight sets off debate

<p style="text-align: justify;">America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her. Read More

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ND agriculture commissioner to lead Cuba trade trip; 8th such mission organized by agency

<p style="text-align: justify;">BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring on Wednesday said he will lead a five-person trade mission to Cuba in September. Read More

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The embargo, is it about to end?

<p style="text-align: justify;">WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is getting ready to relax travel restrictions to Cuba for some Americans, without lifting the trade embargo and a ban on U.S. tourism to the island, a congressional aide said on Tuesday. Read More

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Judge decries lenient treatment of banks but approves Barclays deal

<p style="text-align: justify;">A federal judge Wednesday denounced the Obama administration's treatment of major global banks accused of violating U.S. laws, saying the government lets them off easy by declining criminal prosecution in exchange for payments of hundreds of millions of dollars. Read More

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Cuba offers recreation to Russian firefighters

<p style="text-align: justify;">Moscow Time. Cuba has offered general and health recreation to overstressed Russian firefighters. The offer is in a message from the veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro to the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Read More

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The Asturian Avalanch Band to Perform in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, CUBA.- The Asturian heavy metal band Avalanch to perform on Wednesday at this capital’s Maxim Rock club, as part of a tour of Latin America to promote its most recent album El ladrón de sueños. Read More

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