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October 18th

Cuba Has Capabilities to Become Self-sufficient in Oil Consumption

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: Zero Tolerance of Trade in Persons and Sexual Abuse

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 To Have New Law On Water Management

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

October 16th

Camerata Romeu Delighted Chamber Music Lovers in Camagüey

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

In Cuba, murky light thrown by energy-saving bulbs

Cuba's energy revolution is running in the dark, so to speak. Read More

October 15th

Cuba Is Not Privatizing its Economy

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

FAO Praises Cuba's Food Security Efforts

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

October 14th

Cuba’s Justice Minister says the government fights prostitution

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

Pulitzer winner Hijuelos dies in NYC at age 62; wrote of Cuban immigrant experience

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

October 12th

Cuban Dance Music Group Havana D'Primera on International Tour

Cuban musical group Havana D'Primera, led by trumpeter and singer Alexander Abreu, travels the world promoting its album Pasaporte (Passport). Read More