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Fornet entre los libros de la Habana vieja. Foto: Opus Habana.

Cuban essayist Ambrosio Fornet dies

Literary critic, essayist, editor and screenwriter Ambrosio Fornet, one of the greatest researchers in Cuban publishing history, has died in Havana a few months after his 90th birthday, Casa de las Américas

April 5, 2022

Cuba

Government will subsidize more to adjust 9% to electricity rate

The Superintendency of Electricity (SIE) increased 10.4% to the electricity rate for residential customers in general, however, the reality, given international fuel prices, is that it should have been 26.6%, explained the

April 5, 2022

Dominican Republic

Otero Alcántara preso político, Luis Manuel Otero, Cuba, régimen, Samantha Power

Áfrika Reina on Luis Manuel Otero: “His spirit is unbreakable, it really is”

MIAMI, United States.- The activist Áfrika Reina, friend of the Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, denounced in an interview with CubaNet the situation of the political prisoner in the Guanajay prison,

April 5, 2022

Cuba

Posición del comercio organizado sobre el proyecto de aranceles

Position of organized trade on the draft tariffs

The organized trade agglutinated in the Dominican Federation of Merchants Inc. positively values the bill approved in the first reading in the Chamber of Deputies on the zero tariff for 67 products

April 5, 2022

Dominican Republic

Boxeadores durante un combate en La Habana. Foto: Otmaro Rodríguez/OnCuba/Archivo.

Boxing: Cubans will also fight as professionals after 60 years restricted to amateur sports

A first and small group of boxers from Cuba will debut as professionals in Mexico, starting next May, in an agreement that means the end of the ban that kept boxers from

April 5, 2022

Cuba

Ministro de Economía considera oportuna eliminación de aranceles

Minister of Economy considers timely elimination of tariffs

The Minister of Economy, Planning and Development, Miguel Ceara Hattonconsidered as favorable the measure to eliminate the tariffs of some imported products of the basic basket. “These measures are for six months,

April 5, 2022

Dominican Republic

European countries expel Russian diplomats after Bucha massacre

Madrid Spain.- After the massacre that occurred in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, allegedly caused by Russian soldiers, several European countries announced on Monday the expulsion of Russian diplomats. Among these nations

April 5, 2022

Cuba

The ADP expects the president to respond to their demands

Eduardo Hidalgo, president of the Teachers’ Association; Primitiva Medina, second vice president and Julio Canelo, secretary. Gremio says that Fulcar is not looking to solve the situation. Demands the strengthening of educational

April 5, 2022

Dominican Republic

Sin embargo, Norteamérica acumula el 23 % de las emisiones de la era industrial iniciada en 1850, Europa el 16 %, Asia Oriental el 12 % y Latinoamérica el 11 %, siendo los mayores emisores históricos. Foto: Kaloian.

UN: If the pace continues, the planet will dangerously warm 3.2 degrees this century

Without strong environmental policies, greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise beyond 2025, potentially leading to a global warming of up to 3.2 degrees by the year 2100, despite the fact that

April 5, 2022

Cuba

Ministro de Defensa recibe visita del Embajador de Francia en RD

Minister of Defense receives a visit from the French Ambassador to the DR

SANTO DOMINGO.-Lieutenant General Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, ERD., received in his office the visit of the French Ambassador to the country, His Excellency Eric Fournier, during which they took stock of the

April 5, 2022

Dominican Republic

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