HAVANA, August 31 Cuba’s 13th International Summer Circus Festival (Circuba) kicked off Thursday in Havana, with the participation of more than 80 performers from 14 countries and regions. Following Thursday night’s inauguration at the Karl Marx Theater, the competitive phase of the festival is set to begin on Friday. The five-day event will conclude on […]

HAVANA,  29 jULY  Greenhouses at Cuba’s Jardin Botanica Nacional are designed to keep plants shaded and catching breezes, unlike those in our own more northerly latitudes. I was delighted to have a visit there on our group’s itinerary because I wanted to know more about the unusual flowers and plants I’d been seeing. The garden […]

HAVANA, 28 July   CNPC have announced the signing last week of a major oil deal with Cuba’s state-owned oil company Union Cuba Petroleo (Cupet), to help the Latin American country exploit its offshore reservoirs in exchange for increased crude exports to China.  On July 22 in Havana in the presence of Chinese president, Xi […]

HAVANA, July 24 Prime Minister of Solomon Island, Gordon Darcy Lilo, will preside over today the opening of his country`s embassy in this capital, in the context of the official visit to Cuba until July 27. The opening of that legation will contribute to expand and strengthen ties of friendship and cooperation both nations have […]

Havana, Julio 21 The President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will arrive in Cuba today, on an official visit, in the last stop of his second tour of Latin America and the Caribbean that included Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela. During his stay here, the Chinese statesman will hold official talks with Army […]

HAVANA, July   20 A visual arts collection entitled “My Love for Arts, My Love for Cuba,” was inaugurated on Thursday in Havana as a donation by US collector Gilbert Brownstone in tribute to the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, who were arrested in 1998 in the United States. The Five represent social justice for Cuba […]

HAVANA – NEW YORK  18 July   Michael Weissenstein has been appointed The Associated Press chief of bureau in Havana, the third bureau chief the news cooperative has had in Cuba since it reopened an office on the island in 1999. The AP also announced that senior producer Christopher Gillette has been named to head […]

HAVANA, July 16 New designs and cigar bands of the Vequeros brand will soon be on the market as part of strategies of the Habanos S.A. Corporation, in charge of its commercialization in the world. The brand incorporates new bands and innovative metal containers, which changes the image introduced in 1996 to pay tribute to […]

HAVANA, 14 July  Next November, Havana will host the Festival of Naïf Art, which will contribute to increase the knowledge and promotion of the prolific artworks by these artists within the so wide panorama of Contemporary Cuban Visual Arts. The festival calls for those Cuban artists residing in the country, who may submit up to […]

HAVANA, 11 July OJSC Inter RAO UES could take part in projects to build power units at the Maximo Gomez and East Havana thermal power plants (TPP), Russian President Vladimir Putin said ahead of his visit to Cuba. “Inter RAO is planning to join the construction of power units for the Maximo Gomez and East […]

HAVANA, Julio 10   La Grande Batterie, an exhibition of French line artillery miniature models, by Cuban sculptor Pavel Valdes was inaugurated in this city in the framework of the 12th Congress of the International Napoleonic Society (INS). The evolution of the French weapon until 1803 is shown at a scale of 1:16, including mortars, howitzers, […]

HAVANA, 7 July (Reuters By Daniel Trotta) Cuban President Raul Castro told parliament on Saturday the country’s market-oriented reforms must remain gradual, a clear signal he would resist calls to accelerate change in order to address an underperforming economy. He also praised Cubans for “defeating imperialism” by resisting U.S. aggression ever since the 1959 Cuban […]

HAVANA, 5 July   President Vladimir Putin will next week start an important Latin America visit that will take him to Brazil , Argentina and Cuba as he seeks to counter the growing international isolation through the Ukraine disaster in Russia. La Habana has sided in the struggle with its old friend Russia. Putin along with […]

HAVANA, 3 July (By James P. O’Toole) The head of Cuba’s diplomatic interest section in Washington was in Pittsburgh the past two days meeting with business and academic groups, taking in a little baseball, and hoping to promote a continuing thaw in a relationship still profoundly chilled a generation after the end of the Cold […]

HAVANA, 2 July  The new investment law Cuba has passed to draw capital to the island and refloat its economy came into effect this past Saturday, DPA reported. Cuba’s Foreign Investment Law, unanimously approved by the country’s Parliament at the close of March this year, opens up broad sectors of the nation’s economy to foreign […]