Cuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that the 50 years beginning with the revolutionary victory on January 1, 1959, were the most fruitful period in Cuban history.

More than 78,000 Cubans were operated on from their eye problems in 2008, stated sources from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) in Havana on Monday.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 10 (acn) Cuba reiterated on Tuesday its denunciation of the release in the United States of international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

Cuba has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by almost 3.5 million tons since the implementation of the Energy Revolution program, an idea of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Barack Obama unquestionably won the presidential elections in the United States. However, beyond his successful, well-organized and coherent electoral campaign, his overwhelming victory still leaves space for different interpretations.

LAS TUNAS, Cuba, Nov 3 (acn) The newly restored Cadillac Hotel located in Las Tunas city, in eastern Cuba, reopened its doors in Las Tunas city, in eastern Cuba.

Today I read that the US Federal Reserve had opened a new line of credit for the central banks of Mexico, Brazil, South Korea and Singapore.

In the past weeks, Cuba has suffered some of the worst infrastructure damage in its history due to hurricanes Gustav and Ike. More than 320,000 houses and other structures have been destroyed or damaged and the United Nations estimates losses of between $3 and 4 billion.

A US journalist says that in the Cuban city of Bayamo, "a communist experiment is letting average government workers in this eastern city enjoy a few things that only foreigners and moneyed Cubans can usually afford: a good burger, a kicking jazz bar, and stiff cocktails."


“Las instituciones ecuménicas y las religiones presentes en Cuba, gozan de las libertades y las garantías constitucionales esenciales para su buen funcionamiento y para el logro de sus objetivos.

Should the Cuban counterrevolution lose its long-standing political value to the US neoconservative right-wing extremists, their strong position in Southern Florida would no longer have any meaning, purpose or future.

Without a doubt, Venezuela has shown the greatest solidarity with Cuba after we were hit by the two devastating hurricanes. Its President did not hesitate to offer, on behalf of his country, every possible assistance soon after hurricane Gustav ravaged Pinar del Rio and the Isle of Youth.

The air of pride and dignity being breathed in Cuba in the days following the onslaught of a succession of atmospheric phenomena that swept through the Cuban archipelago in less than three weeks can only be compared with the air breathed here after the revolutionary victory at Bay of Pigs in 1961.

Only hours before Hurricane Ike makes another landing in Cuba, it now appears that Havana and its many historic buildings will be spared from the worst of the storm that has brought devastating consequences to the island’s housing, agriculture and other economic infrastructure.

We had hardly recovered from the emotional impact and material damages caused by the unexpectedly strong winds of hurricane Gustav on the Isla de la Juventud and Pinar del Rio, when news were received of sea floods caused by Hanna.

"For almost half a century, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. And yet it sometimes seems barely visible," says an article published Aug. 14, 2008, in the printed edition of the British weekly The Economist.

Since coming to power, and even before, the Cuban revolution has been characterized by its pragmatism within the context of very firm ethical principles. Undoubtedly this ability to correct errors and negative tendencies, without losing sight of the fundamental path, has been a big factor in the survival of the Cuban vision of social revolution.

With the recognition that the Cuban-American mafia has been diverting funds for the U.S. government’s annexationist plans for Cuba for years now, Congress froze $45 million of funds allocated this year to the US Agency for International Development Cuba (USAID) Cuba program.

This week it was revealed that John McCain's family could make as much as $2 million on a deal with a liquor company that nearly controls the market for beer in Cuba.

Every July 26, Cubans celebrate with popular and cultural activities the National Day of Rebellion, which recalls the 1953 attack on the Moncada Garrison in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks in Bayamo, eastern Cuba.