Tag Archives : Cuba

Havana, the capital city of Cuba, is a major Latin American commercial centre and has a mixture of the colonial style and modernity.  Being the major port city, it is a centre for business, and modern tourism. It is also the birth place of cha-cha-cha! Hotel Parquet Central is situated very near to the Malecon. This magnificent road crawls about 7 [...]

Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest scientists of the world, warns the human race to survive, we must leave the planet Earth. In an interview to the website Big Think, astrophysicist, author of bestsellers like “The Universe in a Nutshell“, explains that human behavior itself will lead to the need to populate other worlds. He cites the [...]

The United Nations recently announced that internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka, housed in refugee camps since the time they fled their homes during the final and fatal offensive against the LTTE, can now go back to their homes. The questions are whether they still have homes to go back to and how safe is it for them to go back. The Sri [...]

The debate over whether to close down the US detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba involves two basic questions. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Can Gitmo’s terrorists be rehabilitated? There have been reports that answer the first question. Many of the former so-called terror [...]

Although suffering a steady and growing censorship, more and more Chinese use the Internet to express their opinion using the great ease to write good articles, and at the same time circumvent government control. “The Chinese bloggers are the smartest in the world. In addition to writing a good and interesting article, they should think how to [...]

Cuba responded positively to the U.S. proposal to reopen negotiations on Cuban immigration to the United States, halted in 2004 by President George Bush. The U.S. offer was a new gesture of openness of the Obama administration which attempts a cautious and gradual approach with the Castro regime. Cuba also accepts the U.S. proposal to establish direct [...]

US President Barack Obama has been wanting to shut down the US prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba but there is no money for it. A budget of $80 million is needed for the shutdown. US lawmakers denied this needed funding. It seems that politics got in the way of popular sentiment. Obama is being criticized for the supposedly ‘hasty decision to close [...]

A recent report by Freedom House, an organization founded by the U.S. government and private groups, reveals that freedom of expression and the right of expression continue to decline throughout the world for the seventh consecutive year. Out of the 125 journalists imprisoned in 2008, half of them are behind bars in China and Cuba. The study by Freedom [...]

Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa criticized the unfounded discrimination experienced by some Mexican citizens in other countries due to the fear of infection from the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu. At a press conference, the secretary said that she was surprised with the decision of ‘brother’ countries such as [...]

Another test for the new era in US foreign relations has just transpired. The White House said that the next few weeks may determine whether it has begun a new relationship with Latin America, especially with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez who has indicated he wants to be friends with Barack Obama after finding him to be an ‘intelligent man.’ A [...]