HAVANA, June 25th 35th Minnesota does little in the way of trade with Cuba, but Lt. Gov. Tina Smith believes last week’s trade mission to the island is likely to change that. Smith spent much of last week touring Cuba with a group of state
HAVANA, June 23 (PL) The 13th German Film Festival premieres yesterday in Cuba the comedy Me and Kaminski of filmmaker Wolfgang Becker, who has already made the world laugh his acclaimed film Good Bye, Lenin!
HAVANA, June 23th This is a sweet mini-doc about Yaya, one of the first women to surf in Cuba, who also happens to be the National Dolphin Trainer. Not a bad claim to fame in our eyes. Cuba has a small, but growing surf community that was born out of DIY roots.
HAVANA, June 23th (AP) The US and Cuba are still cooperating to intercept drug smugglers even through the Trump administration has halted high-level meetings on stopping the flow of narcotics through the Caribbean, a top
HAVANA, Jun 23th (PL) Cuba keeps diseases as dengue, zika and chikungunya under control, despite the existence of their transmitting agent: the mosquito Aedes Aegypti, said today the director for Vigilance and Anti-Vectorial
HAVANA,June 22th (PL) Spanish director Iciar Bollain confirmed in Havana she will direct a movie inspired on the life of famous Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta and shooting will begin in autumn this year in Cuba.
HAVANA, June 22th Big news broke in the butterfly world this week. A naturalist searching for endangered Schaus’ swallowtails in Key Largo discovered something much more rare: a battered but conspicuously alive Poey’s swallowtail,
HAVANA, June 22th U.S. President Donald Trump finally moved to roll back his predecessor’s 2014 warming of official relations with revolutionary Cuba.
HAVANA, June 21th (By Joann Biondi) It’s not easy being a cat in Cuba. There’s no flea medicine, no cat litter and no catnip. Historically, they’ve been relegated to second-class status after dogs. During the “special period” of the early 90s when food was scarce following the breakup of the Soviet
HAVANA, June 21th Victory Cruise Lines is excited to reveal that we have been approved to sail our cruise ship, Victory I, from the US to Cuba. As Victory Cruise Lines’s small ships can fit into all the cruise ports in Cuba, we plan to seek most
HAVANA, Jun 20th (PL) The 18th edition of the Arte en La Rampa Cuban Culture Fair will open its doors in Havana on June 30, with many varieties and proposals, until September 3, its organizers reported here Monday. As usual, the event will be hosted by Pabellon Cuba, and this edition will be
HAVANA, June 19th Thirty miles off the southern coast of Cuba lies La Isla de la Juventud, the “Isle of Youth.” It is covered in lush vegetation and pine forests, and about half of the island falls under a “special municipality” designation,
HAVANA, June 19th (CNN) “These measures reinforce our patriotism,” Rodriguez said, giving the clearest signal yet that the Cuban government would meet Trump’s harder
HAVANA,June 18th When Julia de la Rosa heard President Trump’s speech restricting Americans’ ability to visit Cuba, she immediately started calculating how many workers she’ll have to fire. De la Rosa, 49, has spent the past 20 years
HAVANA, June 17th (WP) President Trump announced a new Cuba policy Friday afternoon that envisions prohibiting
HAVANA, June 16th (Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back his predecessor’s opening toward Cuba will spare airlines and cruise operators who have bet on a new revenue source, but the rollback could affect them by weakening demand. Trump on Friday ordered
HAVANA, June 15th (DDC) The government closed El Litoral and Lungo Mare, two popular private restaurants in Havana, according to blogger Fernando Ravsberg, a
HAVANA, June 14th Cuban assembly members are elected at the local level, and hail from diverse backgrounds and sectors of society. The Cuban Council of State called on Tuesday for the holding of general elections to decide the delegates of both the municipal and provincial assemblies,
HAVANA, Jun 12 (PL) Cuban Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla received Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Immigration and Asylum of Luxembourg in
HAVANA, June 12th As President Donald Trump weighs rolling back some of the Cuba normalization policies begun during the Obama administration, a new poll finds a majority of Republicans would oppose such a move. The president is scheduled to speak about Cuba on Friday
HAVANA, June 11th The official inauguration of the route between Havana and Port-au-Prince took place last Friday, bringing the weekly trips to the largest of The Antilles. According to a report from state-owned ACN, the airline
HAVANA, June 11th For a couple months after Barack Obama moved toward normalizing relations with Cuba following decades of economic sanctions, a rush of movie
HAVANA, June 10th (TheHill) President Trump is expected to announce changes to U.S. policy toward Cuba next Friday in Miami, according to reports. The administration has been evaluating Cuba policy for several months.
HAVANA, June 9th With the arrival of its first flight ever from Paris to Havana this Thursday, June 8, the French airline Corsair, opened a new route into the Caribbean. Twice a week, Thursdays and Saturdays, aircrafts of Corsair will land in Havana, with plans to expand the frequency, according
HAVANA, June 9th Finnair believes it can compete with Air China in connecting Chinese passengers to Cuba when it launches Helsinki-Havana flights in December, CEO Pekka Vauramo said. Finnair, which is the midst of a period of rapid
HAVANA, Jun 8th (PL) Inspired by the love between peoples, the U.S. citizens Cynthia Aguilar, Aimee Spector and Karen Figueroa began a trip from Florida, swimming on a windsurf board (paddle board). Minutes before starting
HAVANA, Jun 8th (PL) A keynote speech on new trends in design, by Italian Alessandro Biamonti, will capture the interest today at the International Congress of this discipline,
HAVANA, June 8th Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana, Cuba’s first five-star luxury hotel, officially opened its doors to guests earlier. Centrally located in the heart of
HAVANA, June 7 (EFE) According to official sources,some 21,750 people were living with the HIV virus in Cuba until 2016. Of these, 81% receive “controlled and free ” Antiretrovirals necessary for its treatment.