The Cuban Workers’ Confederation (CTC) issued a call urging the Cuban people to participate in the International May Day commemoration, amid the update of the economic model in the country.»

The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba on March 26th will reaffirm the humanist vocation of the Revolution, stated today the general coordinator of the Reflection and Solidarity Group Oscar Arnulfo Romero (OAR), Gabriel Coderch.»

Religious leaders joined their voices to other sectors of Cuban society to demand freedom and return to the island of the five anti-terrorists sentenced to severe penalties in the United States. As young people, women, peasants, workers and intellectuals; representatives of the religious diversity that exists in Cuba considered necessary to end the situation of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio »

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said that the member countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA) will require the immediate cessation of the U.S. blockade against Cuba in the Summit of the Americas, to be held in the city of Cartagenas, in Colombia.»

Alan S. Hoffman, an American professor from Washington University was unable by the Treasure Department of the United States (US) to give classes in a course on biomaterials in Cuba, the website of the Foreign Ministry denounced. As consequence of the blockade of the U.S against Cuba, Professor Hoffman may not participate in the III International Course on Biomaterials which »

An attractive three-game series began Saturday between Industriales Blue Lions and Sancti Spiritus Roosters in the latter’s headquarters, the Jose Antonio Huelga Stadium.»

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Friday afternoon by way of the Twitter social network that he’s back in his country from Havana, where he underwent surgery and rested following medical recommendations.»

Cuban Higher Education Minister, Miguel Diaz-Canel, draw attention to the high scienfic level of the Jose Marti Perez University in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, after he toured some of its facilities.  »

The International Committee to Free the Five on Friday announced a program of activities to favor their release, to be run in this capital between April 17 and 21.   Friends from many cities of the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe, in solidarity with the cause of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in this country’s prisons, »

The upcoming Olympic Games in London will be the greenest in history due to the environmental actions taken in the construction of facilities, said British Ambassador to Ecuador Linda Cross. She told Andes news agency that low-cost buildings will be constructed for the Olympics and that 97 percent of the materials used were recycled, thus minimizing spendings in monetary and »