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July 12th

Appropriations committee responds to Jay-Z, Beyonce Cuba trip

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee are looking to limit Jay-Z and Beyonce’s travel options Read More

Angola/Cuba cooperation covers academic research centres

The creation of research centres in various academic and computer regions of the Higher Education Ministry are expressed in cooperation memorandum between Angola and Cuba in the sector Read More

Cuba’s ex-prisons chief — accused of human-rights abuses — is back in the U.S.

A former Cuban prisons chief who was living in Miami and returned hastily to the island after he was accused of human-rights abuses is now back again in the United States, according to a knowledgeable source. Read More

Cuban Guinness Holder to Break his Current Record

Cuban Jhoen Lefont, world record holder of more beats with his head to a soccer ball in the water, will seek to establish a new world record in this mode. Read More

July 11th

Storm Chantal Degenerates Into Tropical Wave Near Cuba

Tropical Storm Chantal degenerated into a tropical wave south of Cuba, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Read More

Costa Rica downs Cuba 3-0 in Gold Cup play

Costa Rica forward Rodney Wallace, right, kicks the ball away from Cuba's Jeniel Molino during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer game in Portland Read More

Cuba’s Secretive Public Health Policies Criticized in Medical Journal

An article titled “Secret Epidemics: Cuba’s Public Health Ethics” (“El silencio epidemiológico y la ética de la Salud Pública cubana”) appears in the most recent issue of Cuba’s quarterly Public Health Journal (Revista Cubana de Salud Publica). Read More

Brazil drops plan to import Cuban doctors

The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal Read More

July 9th

Cuba will Graduate Over 10 500 Doctors this Year

Cuba will graduate more than 10 thousand 500 medical doctors at medicine schools in different provinces of the country, this year. Read More

Iran’s Volleyball Team Beat Cuba in World League Match

The Iranian Men’s National Volleyball Team defeated Cuba in a thrilling five-set match in Cuban capital city of Havana. Read More