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Cuban government sells new tractors to tobacco producers

Tobacco producers and cooperatives from the Sandino and La Palma municipalities, in Pinar del Ríoacquired this Friday modern tractors that will favor planting in the territory with the highest leaf production in

October 18, 2025

Cuba

UASD security employee dies, injured in shooting

A member of the security team of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) passed away this Saturday after being hospitalized since last Thursday, October 16, when he was seriously injured during

October 18, 2025

Dominican Republic

Fundación Apogeo / Premio "Cristo de La Habana"

Bigger words, and whoever gets the prize, let them get it

“I denounce the volubility of those who, once outside Cuba, serve, out of conviction or connivance, with the regime that destroys Cuban culture.” PHILADELPHIA, United States – “I waste my time,” a

October 18, 2025

Cuba

Unemployment: Business community considers the labor reform “cosmetic”

Representatives of the business sector rated as “cosmetic“and insufficient reform to the Labor Code approved on second reading by the Senate of the Republicconsidering that the project does not incorporate the structural

October 18, 2025

Dominican Republic

Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga is appointed as deputy prime minister of Cuba

The Cuban Government gave the green light to complete the positions of vice prime minister of the country, with the appointment of Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, great-nephew of Fidel and Raúl Castro. The

October 18, 2025

Cuba

Regime appoints Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, a relative of Raúl Castro, as deputy prime minister of Cuba

Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga was appointed “by agreement of the Council of State” and proposed by the dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel. LIMA, Peru – For the third time in less than two years, the

October 18, 2025

Cuba

República Dominicana inicia proceso para ingresar a la OCDE y fortalecer su institucionalidad económica y social

Dominican Republic begins the process to join the OECD and strengthen its economic and social institutions

Santo Domingo.– In search of create regulations that combat tax evasion, informality and social defenselessnesshe Dominican government formally began the process to join the OECD. For this purpose, the Foreign Minister Roberto

October 18, 2025

Dominican Republic

Definitely, there is always more to come: Silvio Rodríguez visits Lucía Topolansky

The day before singing in a packed micro-stadium—two shows, Friday and Saturday, at the Antel Arena in Montevideo, with seats sold out for months—Silvio Rodríguez chose the dirt road to Rincón del

October 18, 2025

Cuba

Shooting at the UASD: attacker shoots, abandons his vehicle and scales a wall to flee

Santo Domingo.- The Public Ministry requested the imposition of preventive detention as a measure of coercion against Alexander Jiménez Garban (Alex), accused of attempted murder and illegal use of a firearm, after

October 18, 2025

Dominican Republic

The number of political prisoners in Cuba amounts to 1,148, denounces Prisoners Defenders

Those neighborhood cinemas that I knew

According to the book “Los Cines de La Habana” by María Victoria Zardoya and Marisol Marrero, Havana once had 138 movie theaters. HAVANA, Cuba – In times past, one of the main

October 18, 2025

Cuba

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