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World Demands Freedom for the Five in Washington

The solidarity campaign that has drawn representatives from nearly 30 countries, demanding the U.S. government the release of the Cubans being held prisoners in federal prisoners, is heading into the home stretch this Monday. Since June 4, lawyers, parliamentarians, religious representatives, writers, artists, union members, and friends of the cause of the Cuban Five, as Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio »

Cuban Writers, Artists Discuss Education and Society Issues

The role of culture in the education of the society is the center of discussions today at the final session of the 8th Congress of Cuban Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC). As part of the plenary session, 320 delegates from all over the country will passed the decisions of the four working commissions who reflected yesterday on the role »

Cuban Parliament Passes New Foreign Investment Law

Cuban Parliament today passed a new Foreign Investment Law to allow access to foreign capital, technologies and new markets as well as insert national products and services in the international market. The legislation, approved with the unanimous vote of the Cuban deputies, also seeks to yields positive effects in the domestic industry for national economic growth. Cuba Encourages Foreign Investment »

Cuba Encourages Foreign Investment to Develop Economic Model

Cuba needs a direct foreign investment of about US$ 2.5 billion year to fund its socialist, prosperous, and sustainable socio-economic model, said Vice President of the Council of Ministers, Marino Murillo, this Saturday. Murillo made his statement at the special session of Parliament, attended by Cuban President Raul Castro, in which the draft bill on foreign investment was brought into »

Cuban Press: Commitment to Truth and Life

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Great challenges face the Cuban Press in its daily efforts to turn the truth (on its broad dimension )into the Holy Grail of its work : a country like ours transforming for the better, a learned and very demanding people,  mental barriers that remain, an adversary that does not take a break  with its evil plans against the nation, a »

Raul Castro Pays Tribute to Cuban Heroine

President Raul Castro paid tribute to heroine Melba Hernandez, who died on Sunday, March 9, and whose ashes are at the headquarters of the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces. On Monday night, the statesman laid a white rose in front of the coffin as a tribute to the combatant, who was one of the first one in joining to the »

Raul Castro Arrives in Venezuela for Posthumous Tribute to Chavez

Cuban President Raul Castro arrived today in Venezuela, to attend the homage organized on occasion of the first anniversary of the passing away of Commander Hugo Chavez. Upon arrival in Maiquetía international airport, in the Venezuelan State of Vargas, the Cuban president was welcomed by Hebert Garcia, vice-president for Territorial Development, and minister of Water and Air Transportation. Venezuelan President »

Fernando González Back in Cuba

Cuban antiterrorist fighter Fernando González Llort arrived today in Havana, after being released from a US prison where he fully served a long unfair sentence. Yesterday, Gonzalez came out of the Safford Federal Prison, in Arizona, and was sent to the immigration services so as to begin his deportation process back to Cuba, where he arrived this Friday noon. Congratulations »

Fernando Gonzalez in Immigration Prison

Cuban antiterrorist fighter Fernando Gonzalez Llort, one of The Five, was released this Thursday from Safford Federal Prison, in the United States, and was sent to another correctional institution, still unspecified, until his deportation back to Cuba. It was thus announced by Michelle Álvarez, representative of the federal prosecutor office in Miami, referred to by AP. “I would like to »

Raul Castro Closed 20th Cuban Workers’ Congress

Army General Raul Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Councils of State and Ministers, closed this Saturday the 20th Congress of the Cuban Workers’ Federation, after the 1 200 delegates concluded the three-day meeting. During the final session, started at 3:00P.M., it was announced that the National Council of the workers’ »