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Cuba says U.S. rules limiting food trade

Cuba signed up to import more U.S. food products this week but said payment procedures introduced by the Bush administration in 2005 were hindering trade and forcing it to make deals with other countries. Cuba has been importing food like rice and chicken from the United States since 2000, when cash-only food sales were permitted as a exception to the U.S. trade embargo, turning Cuba's ideological foe into its top foreign supplier. Read More

Cuban communications Minister in China

Cuban Minister of Communications and Computer Sciences Ramiro Valdes Menendez arrived in the Peoples Republic of China on Thursday. The Cuban minister, who is also a member of the State Council, has a full working agenda in China Read More

Reforestation in Camagüey

When the world loses thousands hectares of wood each day, the province of Camagüey, the largest in Cuba, increased its forest heritage by 1 400 hectares over the last year. A research recently published by the FAO reflects that each year 0,2 per cent of the worlds jungle surface disappears, which means 7,3 millions of hectares per year, or 20 thousand per day, twice the area of Paris. Read More

Cubas water strategy praised by UN organization

The Cuban strategy for dealing with water shortages is very sensible and its greatest challenge is to use it with more efficiency, said Francisco Arias Milla, representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Cuba. Read More

Cuba replaces 2 Cabinet members

The Cuban government has replaced its justice minister and the head of the National Institute of Water Resources. Justice Minister Roberto Diaz Sotolongo will be replaced by the vice minister, Maria Esther Reus. Jorge Aspiolea Roig, president of the water resources institute, will be replaced by Rene Mesa, a construction vice minister. Read More

Nicaragua, Cuba restore diplomatic relations

Nicaragua and Cuba officially restored their diplomatic relations on Tuesday. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accepted the credentials from new Cuban Ambassador Luis Hernandez Ojeda, marking the formal restoration of the ties between the two countries. Read More

Portuguese sports minister begins visit to Cuba

Portugal's Minister of Youth and Sports Laurentino Dias on Monday met the vice president at Cuba's Sport Institute (Inder), Roberto Leon Richard, at the start of a four-day trip to the island, Cuban media said on Monday. Read More

Montserrat and Cuba to benefit from cultural exchange programmes

The government of Montserrat is to establish a range of cultural exchange programmes with the people and government of Cuba. Montserrats Director of Culture Herman Cupid Francis has been holding discussion with members of a delegation from Cuba who were on island this week. Read More

Cuba protects AIDS patients

Cuba guarantees jobs, labor protection and free medical care to HIV AIDS patients, because the State prioritizes human development. Cuban experts attending the Second International Congress on Health and Work, being held in Havana until Friday, noted that the island nation provides high-quality medical care to those patients in order to improve their quality of life. Read More

Uruguay, Cuba plan teaches to read

A literacy campaign for adults based on the Cuban program "YO SI PUEDO" will start in Uruguay on Monday with attention to a total of 280 people, it was known here Sunday. One of the organizers, Yamandu Ferraz, said the plan is coordinated by the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) and the National Administration of Public Teaching. Read More

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