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La Cepal mantiene proyección de crecimiento de RD en 5.3

ECLAC maintains growth projection for the DR at 5.3

saSantiago de Chile.– The Commission Economic for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Tuesday raised its growth forecast in the region for 2022 from 1.8% estimated in April to 2.7%, although

August 24, 2022

Dominican Republic

Walfrido Rodríguez Piloto, Huelga, Preso político, Valle Grande

Political prisoner Walfrido Rodríguez Piloto begins hunger strike in Valle Grande

Havana Cuba. — The political prisoner Walfrido Rodríguez Piloto went on a hunger strike again in the Valle Grande prison (Havana), they informed CubaNet inmates of that penitentiary. According to the sources,

August 24, 2022

Cuba

Psychiatrist Francisco Angeles says that only with the power of hope and faith can violence and crime be defeated

Attributes violence to social causes

SANTIAGO. A psychiatrist from this city warned that crime and violence should be approached from a sociological point of view and mental health in general, although he assures that there may be

August 24, 2022

Dominican Republic

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accused of corruption

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accused of corruption, contracted this Tuesday with a defense speech in which she denounced what she considers a judicial persecution to expel her from politics.

August 23, 2022

Cuba

Rolando Cubela dies, the rebel commander who planned an attack against Fidel Castro

MIAMI, United States. — Rolando Cubela Secades, former commander of the Rebel Army and former political prisoner, died this Tuesday in Miami at the age of 89, a victim of cardiorespiratory problems,

August 23, 2022

Cuba

Solicitarán al Senado respalde episcopado frente crisis Nicaragua

They will ask the Senate to support the episcopate in the face of the Nicaraguan crisis

The spokesman of Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in the Senate, Aris Ivan Lorenzojoined today the concern expressed by the Catholic Church, regarding the arrest by the Nicaraguan government of Bishop Rolando Álvarez

August 23, 2022

Dominican Republic

There are no affectations with “the bread of the notebook” in Cuba, assures the MINCIN

The Ministry of Domestic Trade (Mincin) of Cuba assured this Tuesday that “there are no effects on the production and distribution of bread from the Standardized Family Basket”, popularly known as “the

August 23, 2022

Cuba

Edesur capacita a clientes para uso eficiente energía

Edesur trains clients for efficient energy use

The Southern Electricity Distributor (Edesur) has trained 47,000 clients in the efficient use and saving of energy, as a way of raising awareness about the electricity consumptionso that this impacts the domestic

August 23, 2022

Dominican Republic

What Castroism seeks with the implementation of the exchange market

HAVANA, Cuba.- More quickly than many thought, the Cuban ruling party took advantage of one of the usual Round Tables on television to report that the implementation of the exchange market was

August 23, 2022

Cuba

The Finjus executive urges President Luis Abinader to convene the representative sectors of the country to create the mechanisms to put an end to the wave of violence

Finjus asks Abinader to promote policies that curb crime

The Institutionality and Justice Foundation (Finjus) asked President Luis Abinader this morning to convene all the representative sectors of the country to develop policies and mechanisms to face the alarming wave of

August 23, 2022

Dominican Republic

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