In a record-tying display of global solidarity, Barbados joined with all but a tiny handful of nations in the 193-member United Nations General Assembly as it overwhelmingly condemned the United States’ 63-year-long embargo on Cuba. Thursday’s vote tied with the support in 2019 for the resolution that calls for lifting the US economic and […]
Russian airline Aeroflot will soon begin direct flights from Moscow to Cuba. Sergei Vladimirovich Alexandrovsky, general director of Aeroflot Airlines, announced direct flights between the capital Moscow and the Cuban tourist center of Varadero for which plane tickets will be on sale over the next few days. The announcement came as the governments of Cuba […]
Barbados signed an education memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Cuba. The MOU provides two scholarships per year for five years to Cuban nationals — providing training in English as a foreign language for Cuban experts. The signing of the MOU also provides Barbadians with the opportunity to strengthen their capacity in second […]
Born on June 26, 1808 in the city of Santiago de Cuba, Mariana Grajales Cuello is best known for the role she played in her country’s struggle for independence against Spain. Referred to as the “Mother of Cuba,” Cuello’s promotion of national pride and patriotic sacrifice helped rally her people in a military campaign that […]
Ana Montes – among the best-known Cold War spies caught by the US – has been released from prison after more than 20 years in custody. The 65-year-old spent almost two decades spying for Cuba while employed as an analyst at the Defence Intelligence Agency. After her arrest in 2001, officials said she had almost […]
Early morning hours last Tuesday, one of the most important singer-songwriters in the history of Cuba, the troubadour Pablo Milanes, who delighted millions of people around the world with his tuned guitar and unmistakable voice, passed away in Madrid. Milanes is, together with Silvio Rodriguez and Noel Nicola, one of the pivotal founders of the […]
After raising controversy by hiring hundreds of Cuban doctors, Mexico’s president appeared ready last Friday to anger critics again by announcing plans to buy crushed rock ballast for a tourist train project from Cuba. A lot of people in Mexico already have doubts about President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Maya Train project. There are questions […]
Cuba is today facing an unprecedented industrial accident due to a fire in the Matanzas supertanker area caused by a lightning strike on one of the fuel reservoirs. The extinguishing of the fire of great proportions that since Friday consumed a battery of fuel warehouses in the Cuban city of Matanzas (central west) may […]
Cubans and Guyanese now have a new way to travel between both countries as Fly All Ways has announced the start of its direct service between Georgetown and Havana. The first flight between Guyana and Cuba took place on Saturday. The scheduled service will initially operate one flight per week, leaving Georgetown for Havana on […]
More than 800 Haitians trying to get to the U.S. shores aboard a ship have instead landed in central Cuba. According to news reports, this was the largest group of Haitians who are fleeing their crisis-stricken country in hopes of starting anew in the so-called land of the free. The ship was crammed with 842 […]