Havana has come to an end the life of one of the most controversial leaders of the last century: Fidel Castro Ruz. Hated by Cubans who fled his revolution and dictatorship. Reviled in Washington because US politicians communist rate as flat saw under Florida as a personal insult. And, with millions of Latin Americans, still well liked because Castro finally dared to stand up to the big northern neighbor.
The former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is Saturday deceased. He was 90 years old. Notified by the Cuban state. The bearded, cigar-smoking Castro, nicknamed 'el Comandante', from 1959 to 2006 was the undisputed leader of Cuba. At that time he survived six hundred assassination attempts and defied the opposition of the United States, which saw the island as an outpost of the Soviet Union.
Cuba leaves 787 prisoners released after Pope Francis for the Holy Year had called to express forgiveness heads of state in the world to detainees. People detained for murder, rape, child abuse and drug trafficking are excluded from grace.
The Colombian government and FARC reached a new peace agreement. Which reported negotiate mutually Saturday after six weeks, after the first agreement was rejected in a referendum.
Cuba announced Wednesday a five-day military exercise in response to the news that Trump will be the next US president.
In the Cuban capital Havana come there to attend any new privérestaurants at. The authorities do not provide licenses more for these private restaurants, called paladares because the owners often break the law.
Hurricane Matthew has passed in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday Cuba and is now en route to the United States. Cuba reached hurricane winds of 140 miles per hour.
The Colombian government and the Marxist guerrilla organization FARC have returned Tuesday to the negotiating table in Havana. They signed last week the peace agreement, reached after four years of difficult discussions, but Sunday was painfully rebuffed by the population. A small majority rejected the treaty into a referendum because the conditions were too mild for FARC members.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday began efforts to rescue his peace with the FARC rebel movement. He collects political leaders around him to discuss the possibility of making it rejected peace agreement acceptable in a modified form, reported Colombian media.
It is highly unlikely that this year will be appointed an ambassador to Cuba. That says Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, which deals with the appointment. Wednesday was carrying President Barack Obama diplomat Jeffrey DeLaurentis for the first US ambassador to Cuba, after more than half a century of diplomatic absence.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the FARC, Rodrigo Londono, Monday signed a historic peace agreement. If the Colombian population agreed Sunday to approve by referendum, will bring an end to a war that has lasted and took the lives of 220,000 people half a century.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the FARC, Rodrigo Londono, Monday signed a historic peace agreement. If the Colombian population that chord a half weeks later approve by referendum, will bring an end to a war that has lasted and took the lives of 220,000 people half a century.
Who sends an SMS in Cuba, can be assured of the interest of the government. Dissidents claim that the authorities monitor all text messages. Posts containing words such as democracy, human rights and prevent hunger strike are blocked.
After negotiations four years, the Colombian government and FARC reached a peace agreement. Representatives of Cuba and Norway were present at the negotiations were officially released.
Colombia is probably the beginning of October a referendum on peace with the FARC. The population must take a decision on the peace agreement in which the Colombian government and the rebels have negotiated over the past four years in the Cuban capital Havana.
Despite his poor health, Fidel Castro during the festivities in honor of his ninetieth birthday in months his face again shown publicly.
Cuba celebrates the ninetieth anniversary of the pensioner 'comandante' Fidel Castro exuberant. The night of Friday to Saturday was in the capital Havana already completely dominated by Castro's ninetieth, with fireworks, music and dancing. Numerous Cubans toasted on,, another ninety years' under the care of the aged communist rule since 2006 that let to his brother Raul.
He survived six hundred assassination attempts, faced ten American presidents and ruled for nearly half a century on Cuba. Fidel Castro is Saturday ninety years.
Cuban President Raul Castro has admitted that his country is experiencing economic problems. That said Castro in parliament.
For the first time since the Cuban revolution in 1959, an American hotel will open on the Caribbean island again the doors.
Now the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, have pledged to disarm beckons after half a century of political and armed struggle finally peace. Today was the last day of the war, tweeted peace negotiators of the rebel movement Wednesday. The disarmament of the FARC was the last major bone of contention in the peace talks.
The Colombian government and FARC reach for July 20 an agreement to put an end to the longest conflict in Latin America.
The Colombian government and the FARC are making good progress in their peace talks. An agreement to put an end to the longest conflict in Latin America is in sight. That the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Børge Brende, said Tuesday.
Cuban exiles who want to put their home countries may do so soon by ship.
Raul Castro on Tuesday by the Cuban party congress of the ruling Communist reappointed whole is expected to First Secretary of the party. The 84-year-old president, along with the 85-year-old José Ramón Machado Ventura, in the coming years the second man of the party, by about a thousand delegates re-elected.
Future leaders of Cuba should go to their seventieth retire to give younger people a chance to lead the country. That said Cuban President Raul Castro.
President Obama had not yet lit the travel restrictions to Cuba or the first American tourists ventured the crossing to the Caribbean island. And they do what tourists all over the world: they drink beer. So much so, that the Cuban brewers can not handle the demand by far, an unprecedented luxury.
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro appeared on Thursday (local time) for the first time since July again in public. The 89-year-old leader visited a school on the occasion of the birthday of Vilma Espin. The Espin deceased in 2007, was the sister of the current President Raul Castro and is considered a hero of the Cuban revolution.
The Rolling Stones on Friday (local time) in the Cuban capital Havana gave a free concert of more than two hours for at least tens of thousands of fans.,, We know that years ago it was hard to listen to our music in Cuba, but now we play here. I also think that the times are changing, '' Mick Jagger told the enthusiastic crowd. The singer spoke throughout the show in Spanish.
An estimated 200,000 Cubans are expected on Good Friday at the outdoor concert to give the Rolling Stones in the capital Havana. The tickets are free, because the normal ticket prices are priceless in the country, where the average is $ 20 monthly.
