RESTORE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CUBA

August 27, 2019 ProximityCuba 0

Dear friends, Greetings from ProximityCuba! We are writing you to invite you to Cuba once again! As you may know the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC)  announced that, as of June 5th 2019 travel to Cuba under the “People-to-People category” and by cruise ship are now forbidden.  As a Read more

Mother Cuba

August 23, 2019 Granma 0

If Cuba were a woman, she would be called Mariana, like the strong mother who forged warrior children. If Cuba were a woman, she would wear a long dress with white and blue stripes and a star on her chest. If Cuba were a woman, she would enchant, not with Read more

This tape will self-destruct in five seconds

August 16, 2019 Cuba Money Project 0

The State Department is paying a contractor more than $1 million to train 25 to 40 “emerging Cuban leaders.” The contractor isn’t allowed to travel to Cuba to recruit participants. And U.S. officials discourage the contractor from hiring “third-country nationals” to carry out the task. Instead, the contractor should work Read more

Cuba reaches three million visitors

August 16, 2019 Radio Rebelde 0

Cuba reached the three million international visitors on August 15, sixth days later than in 2018, informed the Ministry of Tourism. This result is achieved in spite of the campaigns organized and directed by the Government of the United States to prevent the flow of tourists to our country. It Read more

Salary increase and distributive tensions

August 14, 2019 OnCubaNews 0

The Cuban government surprised by decreeing a significant increase in wages for half of the workers in the state sector. Anticipating the inflationary effects of such a decision, it also decreed the setting of ceiling prices, including markets that were supposed to operate under the logic of supply and demand. Read more

Fidel, the most visionary Cuban of the 20th century

August 13, 2019 Granma 0

On the occasion of the anniversary of Fidel’s birth, Granma shares excerpts from a speech by First Party Secretary Raúl Castro Ruz, December 3, 2016 Fidel’s authority and his close relationship with the people were key to the country’s heroic resistance during the dramatic years of the Special Period… At Read more

A gold medal for peace

August 12, 2019 Granma 0

Lima. – Tears of joy, hugs, handshakes, and kisses join the sweat that floods the body and the mind of a winner, even before the awareness that a champion has been born, who will be honored with gratitude for so much effort. Multi-sport games like these Pan-Americans, attended by all Read more