Cuba

Cuban president Raul Castro met on Friday with visiting Japanese minister Keiji Furuya, who heads Japan-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary League.»

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, attended the inauguration of an Art Studio in a Havana neighborhood that has been revived and is now a flourishing cultural area, with restored and painted homes, paved streets and their boulevards filled with flowers.»

Cuba will extend a new management model for the taxi service agencies giving services in Convertible Cuban Pesos (CUC, equivalent to US dollars in Cuba) experimentally applied since 2010 in Havana.»

The International Committee for the release of the Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in United States called internet users from all over the world to publish the messages on Sunday on Twitter social network, demanding the release of those men.»

President Raul Castro during the Revolution 55th anniversary commemoration»

President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, will give the keynote speech on occasion of the 55th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution major commemoration. The ceremony, to be started at 6:00PM today, will be held at the historic Parque Cespedes (Cespedes Park), located in front of the city council headquarters. It was »

The Cuban literacy campaign method Yo Si Puedo (Yes, I Can) started its national application in Argentina, in agrcultural communities.»

The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has taken measures to grant loans to non-state workers, in the context of the update of the country’s economic and social model.»

Since 2010, the year when self-employment was boosted in Cuba, the number of self-employed workers has increased threefold.»

Both leaders talked about the excellent bonds between the two countries.»