Daily Archives: March 31, 2015
“You have to hear every silly thing in this country!” / Cubanet, Orlando Freire Santana Posted on March 30, 2015
A letter published in the official Granma by one its readers asks the State to limit the prices charged by… Continue reading
Breaking the Bank: Fifteenth Birthday Parties in Cuba / Ivan Garcia Posted on March 31, 2015
Ivan Garcia, 28 February 2015 — Fourteen-year-old Yanisbel has one hot meal a day and the roof of her house leaks but her mother… Continue reading
Neighborhood “CDR” Meetings in Cuba March 31, 2015 Jorge Milanes
HAVANA TIMES — “We’ll be holding a meeting to nominate our candidates next Wednesday, at the market corner,” the chair of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)… Continue reading
The Final Hidden Face of High Prices in Cuba’s Markets March 31, 2015 Rogelio Manuel Diaz Moreno
HAVANA TIMES – Over the last couple weeks, there’ve been several different takes on the topic of the high prices in the markets… Continue reading
Tampa could prosper from restoring cattle trade with Cuba [Tampa Tribune, Fla.]
March 29–TAMPA — Before Tampa became “Cigar City,” it was a cattle city, sustained by the profits local businessmen earned selling to Cuba when the island nation’s herds… Continue reading
Official: 2 Cuban nurses attacked in coastal Jamaica town
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica’s health ministry says two nurses from Cuba have been “brutally attacked and injured” by a gunman who invaded their residence in the small Jamaican town where… Continue reading
Cuba wants more Internet access while keeping state control
Washington (AFP) – Cuba wants to boost public Internet access while keeping the Communist government’s control over it, a senior US official close to talks with Havana on technology said Monday.… Continue reading
Cuba isn’t “open” just because the US says it is Ellery Roberts Biddle Advocacy Director, Global Voices March 30, 2015
American television handyman Bob Vila is now in Cuba, so the island nation must be opening up, right? Since last… Continue reading
From Havana to Tehran: The strange love affair between a theocracy and an atheistic dictatorship [31-03-2015 03:29:03] Jaime Suchlicki Director del Instituto de Estudios Cubanos y Cubano-Americanos de la Universidad de Miami
(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- [On Dec. 17, 2014, President Barack Obama… Continue reading
U.S. and Cuba to face off on human rights in Tuesday Washington meeting BY MIMI WHITEFIELD MWHITEFIELD@MIAMIHERALD.COM 03/30/2015 3:55 PM 03/30/2015 7:54 PM The latest round in the U.S.-Cuba rapprochement gets under way Tuesday when the two countries meet in… Continue reading
Pritzker: U.S. business can be at the forefront of change in Cuba BY MIMI WHITEFIEL DMWHITEFIELD@MIAMIHERALD.COM 03/30/2015 4:28 PM 03/30/2015 4:29 PM
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said Monday that she is planning a trip to Cuba as soon… Continue reading
