Havana, February 24 (RHC) -– Cuba's Communist Party has agreed to hold the VII Party Congress next year and approve a new electoral law, local media said. The holding of the Party congress in April 2016 was announced in Tuesday morning's edition of Granma newspaper.... More


Washington, February 24 (RHC) – A ruling this week by the U.S. Supreme Court favored Cuba in litigation underway for several years against an American company, which was illegally marketing Dominican cigars under the Cuban brand Cohiba.... More


Havana, February 24 (RHC) -– Cuban President Raul Castro and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden are among the guests expected at the inauguration of Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez this coming Sunday in Montevideo.... More


Havana, February 24 (RHC) –- Cuban President Raul Castro has congratulated the children's group La Colmenita on its 25th anniversary.... More


Washington, February 24 (RHC) -- U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, following her recent trip to Cuba as part of a Democratic congressional delegation, said it is in the best interests of both countries to move toward normalizing relations.... More


St Louis, February 24 (RHC-AP) -– Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill says she supports legislation to end the U.S. economic blockade against Havana. The Democrat affirmed her support of opening trade on Monday following her recent trip to the country.... More


Gaborone, February 24 (RHC-AllAfrica) -– Cuban Ambassador to Botswana, Juan Carlos Arenciba Corrales, says his government is willing to help Botswana fight against malaria especially in Ngamiland district which has a high prevalence of the disease.... More


Havana, Feb. 23 (RHC)-- Cuban experts are engaged in the process of introducing five new technologies in the national health system to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.... More


Santa Clara, February 23 (RHC)-- Cuba's First Vice President Miguel Diaz Canel stressed the significance of community work amid current transformations in the country, in which the people must be the protagonists of every action.... More


Geneva, February 23 (RHC),-- Cuba's Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Anayansi Rodríguez said Monday that the US government has the power and the means to put an end to the long-standing dispute between Havana and Washington over registration in the United States of the Cuban rum brand Havana Club.... More


Havana, February 23 (RHC)-- The 17th Annual Habano Cigar Festival opened its doors on Monday to over one thousand visitors from 80 countries, who are interested in the development of the Cuban economic sector and with wide array of activities related to the best cigars of the world. ... More


Havana, February 23 (RHC)-- The 24th International Book Fair closed its doors in Havana on Sunday after 10 successful days of visits by local and foreign readers interested in the large literary offer.... More


Havana, February 23 (PL-RHC)-- The business group AZCUBA produced about 4.5 million liters of bio-stimulant Fitomas-E in 2014, twice the amount achieved in the previous year, according to Carlos Gonzalez, director of AZCUBA sugarcane by-products division.... More


Havana, February 23 (PL-RHC)-- Account books and hundreds of trade documents from the 19th century were found in the ceiling of a building in restoration in the historic heart of Guantanamo, in eastern Cuba, according to an article published by Granma daily newspaper.... More


Cuban Culture Delights Corsicans

Paris, February 23 (PL-RHC)-- Part of Cuba's cultural riches have arrived in Corsica, the birthplace of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, delighting its residents.... More


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