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Havana,19 Mar. The Canadia Cuba-Cruise Company, which organizes trips to the island, announced on Tuesday a new itinerary for the 2015-2016 season with a two-day stay in Havana. Starting December 18 and up to March 21, 2016, the trips to Cuba will also include a stop-overs at the Maria la Gorda beach in western Pinar […]
HAVANA,19 Mar. (AP) Old Havana’s Museum of Metalwork is home to soaring colonial archways, floors of gleaming artworks and five of the world’s luckiest street dogs. In the heat of the day, Vladimir, Canela, Aparicio, Leon and Carinoso sprawl in the grand entrance of the centuries-old stone building. At night, the animals patrol the streets […]
HAVANA, 18 Mar. (AP) Cuba Travel Services has started offering a weekly Tuesday charter between John F. Kennedy International Airport and Havana for people authorized by the U.S. government to visit the island. The flights are operated by Sun Country Airlines, and cost $849 round-trip. The price includes airfare, Cuban medical insurance and U.S. departure […]
A person looks at magnets for sale inside a souvenir shop, one showing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama smelling a cigar, at a market in Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 16, 2015. U.S. and Cuban officials are meeting Monday in last-minute closed door negotiations in Havana, in hopes of restoring full diplomatic relations before […]
Assistant secretary of state of the bureau of western hemisphere affairs Robert S. Jacobson met with Josefina Vidal, Cuba’s top diplomat for US affairs, for a surprise round of talks between the US and Cuba. Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP HAVANA, 16 Mar. US and Cuban diplomats talked behind closed doors Monday in a last-minute round of […]
LA HAVANE, 16 Mar. Un opérateur appartenant au gouvernement cubain, Etecsa, vient d’autoriser la mise en place sur l’île du premier réseau internet gratuit et public. C’est l’artiste Kcho qui l’a installé dans son centre culturel de La Havane, ouvert en janvier dernier, pour permettre à ses concitoyens de se familiariser avec Internet. Kcho devrait […]
HAVANA,15 Mar. Cuba has been taking good care of its homeless dogs in the capital, Havana. The country’s official stray dogs are tagged. They wear ID tags on collars around their necks. The dogs are fed and cared for by the state, in a system accustomed to socialism. In Havana, however, there’s a practical side […]
HAVANA,15 Mar. Cuba might have one of many lowest charges of web entry on the planet, however that hasn’t dissuaded Google from sending over a few of its main lights. Executives from its in-home assume tank Google Ideas are on a go to to the communist island ? which is within the throes of making […]
LA HAVANE, 15 Mar. Le ministère public cubain a requis des peines allant jusqu’à 20 ans de prison pour 19 fonctionnaires accusés d’avoir subtilisé à l’Etat quelque 8 millions d’œufs en 2012 avec la complicité de supérieurs “inattentifs et/ou corrompus”. Des fonctionnaires cubains risquent 20 ans de prison pour avoir volé 8 millions d’oeufs. Pour […]
HAVANA, 15 Mar. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has announced she will visit Cuba later this month. Ms Mogherini said Cuba was facing a very interesting period and the EU wanted to build on the momentum to “take the relationship forward”. She is the highest-ranking EU official to visit Cuba in several years. […]
HAVANA, 14 Mar. Havana will receive on Saturday the first direct flight between the southern US city of New Orleans and the Cuban capital of Havana in half a century . The aircraft brings 80 business and community leaders seeking to explore avenues of cooperation between the US and Cuba, according to the official news […]
Havana,14 Mar. (AFP) – Cuba has begun reconciling with the Paris Club of creditor nations after a nearly three decade-long divorce, moving to put its financial house in order as it opens up to the world economy. “We are going to finish the reconciliation in a few more weeks, and some weeks or months […]
HAVANA, 14 Mar. David Morris International, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based luxury travel specialist, is partnering with Cuba Explorations to provide a series of high-end tour programs to Cuba. The tours operate in partnership with Havana Air, an airline founded several months ago by a group of Americans to offer nonstop flights from Miami to Cuba. […]
HAVANA, 13 Maqr. (AP) — Cuban prosecutors are seeking prison terms of eight to 20 years for nearly two dozen people suspected of conspiring to steal millions of eggs for sale on the black market, official media reported Friday. Communist Party newspaper Granma said the 19 suspects are accused of food theft, generating fraudulent receipts […]
LA HAVANE, 13 Mar. (AFP) Pour la première fois de leur histoire, les Cubains ont accès à un réseau Internet sans-fil gratuit qui a été autorisé discrètement par le gouvernement dans un centre culturel de La Havane. Le service est encore lent par rapport à d’autres pays dans le monde, mais il s’agit tout de […]
HAVANA, 13 Mar A friend in Mexico City reached out a couple days ago asking what the heck was going in Havana. He wanted to hop over for the weekend later this month but couldn’t find anyplace decent to stay. All he could find was a room at a three-star hotel far from the center. […]
A look at Cuba’s vibrant Afro-Cuban community through the photographs of Dr. David LaFevor who has visited and photographed Cuba for the past decade. HAVANA, 13 Mar. More African slaves were imported into Cuba (roughly the size of Pennsylvania) than into the entire United States. For most of Cuban history, manumission, the process through which […]
Kcho Studio Romerillo 7th and 120 Street, Havana HAVANA, 12 Mar, (AP) Cuba is allowing free, public Internet service for the first time at a Havana cultural center that quietly began offering open Wi-Fi in recent weeks. Dozens of youths flock daily to the center run by famed artist Kcho. His spokeswoman says state telecom […]
HAVANA,12 Mar. (AP) — The head of the Cuban dissident group the Ladies in White was poised to survive a referendum on her leadership Wednesday following an internal dispute that sparked demands for her resignation. With more than half of the ballots counted, Berta Soler said she had won support from 108 members, enough to […]
Havana, Mar 11 (Prensa Latina) Professors and students of the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and TV School (EICTV) are celebrating the 90th birthday of who was its first director and founder: famous Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri. The celebration, entitled “Para un señor muy viejo con alas enormes” (For a Very Old Man […]
HAVANA, 11.Mar. (Reuters) – Direct telephone connections between the United States and Cuba have been established under the first commercial accord realized since the December rapprochement between the two longtime adversaries, Cuba’s national telecom provider said on Wednesday. The U.S.-based IDT Corp reached an agreement with Cuba’s Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA) to […]
LA HAVANE, 10 Mar. Sur le port de Mariel, à l’ouest de La Havane, un bateau rempli de conteneurs portant le sigle de la compagnie d’affrètement CMA-CGM est en cours de déchargement. Tout autour, des grues et des engins de chantier s’activent pour édifier la future zone franche maritime de la ville. Au-delà des promesses […]
HAVANA,10 Mar. A dozen tour buses idled along the Malecón and so many tourists were snapping pictures of the giant images of Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos on a recent day at the Plaza de la Revolución that it looked like a theme park. Foreign visitors are coming to Cuba in droves this winter season. […]
HAVANA, 9 Mar. (EFE) Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht will carry out the $207 million expansion of the international terminal at Havana’s Jose Marti Airport, Cuba’s official media said Monday. Work will begin this month at Terminal 3 to “make more efficient the services provided to roughly 2,000 passengers going through the facility at rush hour,” […]
HAVANA, 9 Mar. The New York Cosmos will play the Cuban national team in June in Havana, becoming the first American professional team to play on the island in 16 years and the first since the United States government announced that it would restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba in December. Cosmos officials would not […]
Agribusinesses want the Cuban embargo gone, but not for all altruistic reasons HAVANA, 9 Mar. (AMG) — Late last week, an agricultural delegation from the U.S. arrived in Cuba in search of potential business partners.The trip occurred after several months of hard lobbying by American agribusinesses, urging the U.S. government to lift its long-standing trade […]
HAVANA, 7 Mar. (Reuters BY DANIEL TROTTA) – The chief of the Paris Club of wealthy creditor nations met Cuban finance officials on Friday in what he believed was an unprecedented official visit to Havana to discuss Cuba’s debt. After previous negotiations had stalled in 2000, Cuba and the Paris Club have moved swiftly in […]
In an exclusive interview with Yahoo News, Gerardo Hernandez is defiant about his role as ringleader of the Cuban Five spy network.HAVANA, 6 Mar. — In the depths of his 16-year odyssey through the U.S. prison system, convicted Cuban spy Gerardo Hernandez was transferred to an underground cell at Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution that […]
HAVANA, 6 Mar. The first U.S. company to strike a long-distance deal with Cuba since the Obama administration announced a telecom opening toward the island is now handling direct calls to Cuba. “Now we can terminate and make calls directly to Cuba,” said Bill Ulrey, vice president of investor relations for Newark, N.J.-based IDT Corp. […]
LA HAVANE, 6 Mar. Cuba sans ses voitures des années 1950, c’est un peu comme Venise sans ses gondoles ! Ces autos rutilantes doivent leur survie à l’embargo américain. Mais tout pourrait changer avec le rapprochement historique entre La Havane et Washington. Reportage à Cuba où le Président François Hollande a annoncé sa visite […]
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