Cuba

Costa Rica will ask international organizations to help finance the trip through Central America of many Cubans stranded on its border since November, intending to reach the United States»

Ending the blockade on Cuba will “consolidate” U.S. leadership in Latin America, Obama said in his State of the Union address»

The director of the US Department at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, said that relations between Havana and Washington must make progress in 2016, although it is an election year in the United States.»

A rainier winter than usual takes place in Cuba due to the presence of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event, with strong rank in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, Granma newspaper reported»

Dutch Minister, Lilianne Ploumen, expects that “the companies and organizations of the Kingdom attending the mission expand and strengthen their network of contacts”»

Costa Rican authorities based their selection on the arrival date to the nation and the ability to pay for the trip, which in total will cost $ 535, including transportation, food, taxes for getting into and out of the country and health insurance»

An inactivated vaccine (IPV) against all viruses which cause Polio is supplied as of today by injection to Cuban children, as part of the 55th national campaign to eliminate definitively the disease»

The entrance to Havana of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, with the Caravan for Freedom, will be evoked today after 57 years of that historical event»

Deputy Foreign Minister and Federal Minister of Economy and Energy of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, is in Havana for a German-Cuban business forum that will seek to identify business and investment opportunities»

The government of Costa Rica scheduled for next Tuesday the departure of the first group of Cubans who are stranded from mid-November on its border with the intention of reaching the United States»