Cuba looks forwards to reaching oil self-sufficiency in the long run, said the head of oil exploration of the state-owned Cubapetroleos oil company Read More
Cuba maintains a policy of zero tolerance of trade inpersons and other forms of sexual abuse, and guarantees the people’s human rights, highlighted in this capital Maria Esther Reus, Minister of Justice. Read More
Cuba is preparing a new law to modernize water management, Orlando Rey of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (Citma) said. Read More
With an exellent music, Camerata Romeu charmed the local audience in Camagüey playing well-known themes of Cuba’s vast musical wealth and other international themes. Read More
Marino Murillo, the so-called "czar" of the Cuban economic reforms. “It is not correct to say that in Cuba today a transformation of government property into private property is taking place,” Read More
The representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Havana, Theodore Friedrich, described as positive the island's efforts to guarantee food security. Read More
The minister reportedly said that 224 persons were convicted of pimping in 2012 and that seven foreigners are imprisoned on charges of abusing minors, but gave no details on the procurers’ sentences or the foreigners’ nationalities. Read More
Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” and whose work often captured the loss and triumphs of the Cuban immigrant experience, has died. Read More
Cuban musical group Havana D'Primera, led by trumpeter and singer Alexander Abreu, travels the world promoting its album Pasaporte (Passport). Read More