Judges in Argentina are ruling on the crimes committed under Operation Condor, a program launched in the 1970s designed to eliminate all opposition to right-wing dictatorships in South America.... More


New evidence has emerged implicating Venezuela’s right-wing National Assembly leader Henry Ramos Allup in recent protest violence... More


Residents in Hiroshima have greeted U.S. President Barack Obama with protests at the site of the world’s first atomic bombing conducted by the United States more than 70 years ago.... More


U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has secured the required number of delegates to win the nomination of this party.... More


U.S. President Barack Obama says world leaders are “rattled” by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and are not sure how to react to his proposals. ... More


The Netherlands has rejected calls by Israel to declare illegal a growing international campaign that calls for the boycott of Israeli products. ... More


The Italian coast guard says at least 20 people have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean, while the coast guard rescued more than 4,000 additional people in recent hours.... More


U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has defended using a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of state, saying the e-mail controversy will not affect her White House bid.... More


On Thursday, the second day of his official visit to Russia, First Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel held separate talks with Prime Minister Dmitri Medvédev, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin and with Guenadi Ziuganov, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia.... More


On Wednesday, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of the Canary Islands has passed a resolution, urging the United States to put an end to its nearly 6 decades-old blockade of Cuba.... More


Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, received Ileana Nunez Mordoche, the Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, who is on a three-day visit to the sister Caribbean nation.... More


Deputy Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina described as significant and positive the impact on the South African people of twenty years of Cuba's cooperation with the African country.... More


The director for the Office of Mexico and Central America of the German Confederation of Cooperatives (DGFRV), Helmut Pabst, said Wednesday that Cuba is firmly set on developing cooperatives.... More


Cesar Sanchez, coordinator of National Anti-doping Commission in Costa Rica, stated Wednesday that thanks to an agreement signed by Costa Rica and Cuba, the official drug tests of Costa Rican athletes will take place in a Cuban laboratory.... More


Economic Update May 26

In tune with ongoing economic transformations in Cuba, local banks back priority economic plans and investment projects launched by Cuban companies, an action that reported credit lines of up to 28 billion pesos in 2015.... More


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