Daily Archives: August 17, 2016
6 Cuban national volleyball team members charged with rape
HELSINKI (AP) – A Finnish prosecutor on Tuesday brought charges of aggravated rape against six members of the Cuban national volleyball team, which lost their games at the Rio Olympics with… Continue reading
Cuban Military Takes Over Businesses of Havana Historian’s Office / 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Mario Penton
14ymedio, Luz Escobar (Havana), Mario Penton (Miami), 16 August 2016 — “Do you see that building? Ten years ago it was full of stinking water,… Continue reading
Cuba: Church demolitions increase, 1,400 AOG churches seized Tuesday, August 16, 2016 3:51 pm.
The first half of 2016 has seen church demolitions in Cuba gather pace as the government crackdown on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) on the… Continue reading
Cuba Releases New Economic Guidelines Without Major Changes By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA — Aug 16, 2016, 4:24 PM ET
Cuba’s ruling Communist Party released a new set of economic guidelines Tuesday that emphasize the slow-moving and limited nature… Continue reading
Cuba Sticks to Modest Reform Plan Despite Poor Results August 16, 2016 Reuters
HAVANA — Cuba on Tuesday published policy guidelines for the next five years that signal no new domestic initiatives although it upgraded foreign investment to “fundamental in… Continue reading
Cuba historian confirms military taking over operations BY MARIO J. PENTÓN AND LUZ ESCOBAR mpenton@elnuevoherald.com
HAVANA In the early 1990s, with Havana in ruins and Cuba mired in a devastating economic crisis, the island’s government granted historian Eusebio Leal Spengler… Continue reading
Cuba steps up campaign against U.S. immigration policies BY FRANCO ORDOÑEZ fordonez@mcclatchydc.com
The Cuban government has never liked the Cuban Adjustment Act, which allows Cubans who reach the United States to remain, but it’s stepping up its campaign against it… Continue reading
Cuban music hits Miami radio BY JORDAN LEVIN jlevin@miamiherald.com
Cuban music in Miami has taken another leap from blacklist to blockbuster.
The Miami-based radio chain SBS (Spanish Broadcasting System) is launching a station built around Cubaton, or Cuban Reggaeton, reports… Continue reading
Cuban migrants on Key Biscayne may have been smuggled, Border Patrol says BY ALEX HARRIS aharris@miamiherald.com
Border Patrol suspects the five Cuban migrants who landed on Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning were smuggled.
The group abandoned their boat at Bill… Continue reading