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- Chávez tightens reins on Venezuelan economy
Faced with shortages of food, building materials and other staples, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is intensifying state control of the economy through a new wave of takeovers of private companies and the creation of government-controlled ventures with allies like Cuba and Iran.
- Raul Castro's daughter runs gay rally
Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness — and high-ranking political alliances — with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday.
- Cuba blames U.S. for Internet restrictions
''We aren't worried about the citizenry connecting from their homes,'' Telecommunications Vice Minister Boris Moreno told a small group of reporters. ''But problems with technology and resources have made it necessary to give priority to connections that
- Two-run blast gives White Sox a win in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO - Manager Ozzie Guillen believes Cuban import Alexei Ramirez should have more home runs despite the lack of playing time and getting acclimated to playing in cold conditions for the first time. Friday night, Ramirez finally got a chance to
- Cuban VP to Talk in Peru Summit
Havana, May 16 (Prensa Latina) Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, Cuban First Vicepresident of the State and Ministers Councils will speak in two of the four roundtables programmed at the 5th Latin America-Caribbean-European Union Summit in Lima, Peru Friday.
- Cuba: US embargo blocking wider internet access
A top Cuban official said Friday that Ral Castro's government would consider loosening Internet restrictions on ordinary citizens newly allowed to purchase computers -- but Washington's decades-old economic embargo makes it impossible.''We aren't worried
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The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the European discovery of the island by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony during the next several centuries. Large numbers of African slaves were imported to work the coffee and sugar plantations, and Havana became the launching point for the annual treasure fleets bound for Spain from Mexico and Peru. Spanish rule, marked initially by neglect, became increasingly repressive, provoking an independence movement and occasional rebellions that were harshly suppressed. It was US intervention during the Spanish-American War in 1898 that finally overthrew Spanish rule. The subsequent Treaty of Paris established Cuban independence, which was granted in 1902 after a three-year transition period. Fidel CASTRO led a rebel army to victory in 1959; his iron rule has held the regime together since then. Cuba's Communist revolution, with Soviet support, was exported throughout Latin America and Africa during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The country is now slowly recovering from a severe economic recession in 1990, following the withdrawal of former Soviet subsidies, worth $4 billion to $6 billion annually. Cuba portrays its difficulties as the result of the US embargo in place since 1961. Illicit migration to the US - using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, air flights, or via the southwest border - is a continuing problem. The US Coast Guard intercepted 2,810 individuals attempting to cross the Straits of Florida in fiscal year 2006.
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AP - Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness — and high-ranking political alliances — with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday.
Reuters - Political differences loomed over a summit
of European and Latin American leaders in Peru on Friday,
threatening to undermine their efforts to fight poverty and
global warming.
Reuters - Charges against five Guantanamo prisoners
accused of plotting the September 11 attacks should be thrown
out because they were improperly influenced by a Pentagon legal
adviser, U.S. military lawyers said in documents filed on
Friday.
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