Cuba and Russia have signed an agreement to allow Russian state oil company Zarubezhneft to explore for and produce oil in Cuba in their first post-Soviet oil pact. Both countries have made a push to revive ties in recent months.
In this edition: Interpol releases arrest warrants for four officials wanted in connection with the kidnapping of politician Ben Barka back in the 1960s; press censorship in Morocco; a focus on Algeria's Socialist Forces Front.
The New York Philharmonic has put off plans to perform in Cuba between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2 due to US travel restrictions, which affected the travel plans of the company’s sponsors.
A senior US diplomat has held talks with high-ranking Cuban officials in the latest sign of tension easing between the two countries. The talks cap a visit by a US delegation to discuss the possible resumption of direct postal services.
In this edition: the spread of 10 peso community restaurants in Mexico City; healthcare reform triggers a debate on racism in the US; the fierce criticism from Cuban exiles in Florida over a concert by Colombian superstar Juanes in Cuba.
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans crammed Havana’s Revolution Square Sunday for the historic “Peace without Borders” concert organized by Colombian singer Juanes, who has received death threats from Miami-based Cuban exiles.
An award-winning Colombian musician, Juanes, is set to play a huge concert in Cuba Sunday, but the concert is seemingly becoming less about music and more about politics. The Cuban community in the US has slammed the musicians taking part.
The White House said in a press release that US President Barack Obama has decided to extend by one year the law establishing a trade embargo on Cuba, despite easing restrictions on travel and money transfers earlier this month.
The Web reacts to the candidacy of NoyNoy Aquino, son of the former Philippine president, Corazon Aquino. Also in today's review of the Web: Net users mobilise for Cuban ‘Panfilo’, convicted for complaining he was hungry on a video.
Eduardo Manet was born in Cuba in 1930 and took French nationality in 1979. But as we see in his latest novel, “A Cuban in Paris,” he might have left Cuba, but Cuba never left him.
