Cuba signs a contract with Canada to buy wheat

The previous year, Canada shipped 177,000 tonnes of wheat to Cuba -- its biggest exports to the country in the previous decade. The 10-year average is 77,500 tonnes. Read More

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Cuba is good market for american products, says US entrepreneur

De la Fuente explained that her enterprise has brought to Cuba wheat and soy beans from New Orleans and Texas under a license issued by the US Treasury Read More

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Cuba defeated by U.S. in volleyball World Cup

The Americans, who lost to Cuba in the continental championship final in September, got their revenge on the three-time Olympic gold medallists with a 20-25, 25-21, 25-18, 20-25, 15-11 win in Hamamatsu, central Japan. Read More

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Call to e-protest US anti-Cuba policy

Prensa Latina reproduces the petition text as follows: Stop the attack on Cuba! Respect Cuban Sovereignty! Read More

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Cuba invited to Second World Baseball Classic

While a formal decision hasn't been made, it appears the second WBC will be played in March 2009. Details are likely to be announced at the winter meetings Dec 3-6 in Nashville, Tennessee. Read More

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Garcia Marquez calls for release of the Cuban Five

There are now six Nobel laureates who have added their name to the October 12 call issued by the In Defense of Humanity Network Read More

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Andy Montañez to record album with cuban Pancho Amat

Montañez, who was a special invited artist at the Ibero American Culture Festival in the Cuban eastern province of Holguin, told the press that working with Amat and his band is one his most immediate projects. Read More

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'Dissidences and coincidences', exhibition by Eduardo Moltó in Mexico

Entitled Disidencias y coincidencias (Dissidences and coincidences), the samples will be shown in the capital of Mexico, in Aristo gallery and it is made up of 35 works in which body painting is included. Read More

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Cuba in New York for UN victory

According to the UN program, the General Assembly will meet October 30 to vote on a resolution entitled "The Necessity to Put an End to the Economic, Financial and Commercial Blockade Imposed by the United States on Cuba." That resolution has circulated for days among the 192 UN country members, and its world support is expected by Cuban authorities in an overwhelming victory. Read More

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Canadian couple goes to Cuba for her orthopedic surgery, instead both get treated

A Halifax couple, Diane and Vern Paul, traveled to Cuba so that she could get orthopedic surgery, but instead, they both were treated. Vern was so impressed with the quality of medical care in Cuba, that at the last minute he decided to get cosmetic surgery. Diane chose Cuba because she knew that the country had outstanding health care, and she wanted to avoid the one-year wait for her treatment in Canada. Read More

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