Zero infant mortality, much of Cuba

Twenty-five Cuban municipalities reported zero infant mortality rates in 2006, making for a current national rate of 5.3 percent.The National Statistics Department of the Ministry of Health, which previously reported on the national infant mortality rate, said in a new report that those 25 municipalities have a population of over 800,000 inhabitants each. Read More

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Cuba reaches 50% self sufficiency in oil consumption

Cuba reached its target of 3.9 million tons of oil and gas in 2006, while foreign companies in association with the local Cubapetroleo, CUPET, corporation continue exploration in 30 other wells, reported Havana authorities. Read More

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US activists plan Guantanamo jail protest

A group of US and other peace activists including Cindy Sheehan plan to march to the gates of the US Navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba on January 11 to protest against abuses at the prison camp for terrorism suspects, organisers said today. Read More

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Cuba publishes book on information manipulation

Cuba's Jose Marti Publishing House has launched the book "Juego Sucio", (Foul play) by Spanish journalist Pascual Serrano. The writer denounces through examples the deceptive practice of information manipulation by the Western media in the name of such sacred principles as freedom of the press, freedom of speech and journalistic objectivity. Read More

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New water pipe factory opens in Havana

Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage officially opened Cubas second high-density hydraulic pipe factory located in the capital on Wednesday. Lage explained that the facility, known as Hidroplast, will contribute to the countrys waterworks infrastructure, especially in water conservation by replacing old pipes. Read More

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Hilton slammed in Oslo for Cuba embargo

An Oslo hotel owned by the U.S.-based Hilton Hotel Corp. faced protests, a boycott and a police complaint this week after refusing to book rooms for a Cuban delegation because of the United States' trade embargo against Cuba. Read More

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Cuban artists find lost wax

Metallic sculpture of small and medium format assumes new courses in Cuba with the application of a method that is so ancient as it is efficient: the smelting on the lost wax. A demonstarion of this is the exhibition found in the Galería de los Oficios Gallery under the title Vuelo de bronce IV (Bronze Flight IV), with emblematic pieces of the genre made during the same number of encounters called by the Caguayo foundation, in Santiago de Cuba. Read More

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Raul Castro, Torrijos team up

Panamanian President Martin Torrijos is on his second to last day in Cuba, after bilateral collaboration topped a meeting with Cuban Vice President Raul Castro. Read More

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Giant turtles in largest caribbean marsh

Freshwater turtles twice the average size (7-10 inches and around 13 pounds) of those aquatic animals are being studied in the Zapata Swamp in Cuba, the largest and best preserved marsh in the Caribbean. Read More

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Cuban indicators show the difference

Investment in social development programs bears fruit as Cuban indicators have come to show. According to national statistics, in 1958, there were one million illiterates and over one million of functional illiterates in the island. At the end of 1961, Cuba was free of illiteracy. Four and a half decades later, inhabitants of the Caribbean nation hold one of the highest schooling indexes in Latin America, if not the first. Read More

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