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June 18th

Audience in USA on claims of confiscated property in Cuba

The federal legislator Jeff Duncan, head of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee for the Western Hemisphere of the House of Representatives, chaired an audience this morning on the confiscated properties in Cuba Read More

American and Cuban politicians and diplomats celebrate anti-embargo group in bar in Washington

Senators Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia); Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and chief of the negotiator team with Cuba, and Cuban government diplomats were among the attendees on Wednesday at the official presentation of the bipartisan anti-embargo coalition Engage Cuba, at The Partisan bar in the US capital. Read More

La Ribot in Cuba

The stage is completely covered in white, a woman lying naked, pretending to be the "Rokeby Venus". Read More

Uruguayan Senate approves to cancel Cuba’s debt

The Uruguayan Senate approved a bill today to cancel the entire debt of the National Bank of Cuba with that country and it should now be debated in the Chamber of Deputies. Read More

June 17th

Festival "Les Voix Humaines" comes to Havana

The restless Leo Brouwer Office team returns in 2015 with impetus, to propose another Festival from a different concept, which its name already suggests: "Les Voix Humaines", clearly referring to some prominence to human voices. Read More

Cuba will demand decolonization of Puerto Rico at UN

Cuba will present on Monday 22 to the UN Special Committee on Decolonization the resolution project demanding self-determination and independence of Puerto Rico, the Cuban Foreign Ministry informed today. Read More

MLB Commissioner interested in Cuban baseball players and market

Rob Manfred, MLB commissioner, said on Tuesday in the clubhouse of the Boston Red Sox that he estimates that "the normalization of relations with Cuba represents a great opportunity for baseball." Read More

Cuba in 82nd position of the 2015 Global Peace Index

Cuba appears 82nd among 162 countries in the 2015 Global Peace Index that quantifies the cost of containing violence worldwide. Read More

Twitter bets on SMS to expand in Cuba because of poor access to internet

Twitter company does not want to lose the opportunity to grow in the Cuban market and for this it has begun to draw its development strategy in a country with a major obstacle: the lack of internet access. Read More

No agreements in Cuba- EU fourth round of talks

Cuba and the European Union achieved significant gains in the fourth round of talks that concluded on Tuesday in Brussels regarding trade and cooperation, and identified positions in the political dialogue, Cuban Foreign Ministry informed. Read More