Canadian tourists in Cuba test negative for COVID-19

September 14, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

All Canadian tourists who arrived last Friday at Cayo Coco international airport, in central Cuba, tested negative for COVID-19, according to the island’s authorities. The 110 visitors from Canada, who arrived on the second flight to the Cuban destination Jardines del Rey from the northern country in September, underwent a real-time Read more

Cuban lends hand to detect COVID-19 cases in Venezuela

September 7, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

With the support of Cuban specialists, the Venezuelan health authorities inaugurated this Saturday a new molecular biology laboratory that will allow analyzing around a thousand daily tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a crucial contribution amid the rise in positive cases in the South American nation. With almost 10,000 active Read more

Fábrica de Arte Cubano wins Travellers’ Choice Award

August 29, 2020 OnCuba Staff 0

The Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC), a cultural institution located in Havana, received the prestigious 2020 Travellers’ Choice award, conferred by tourists’ opinions on TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel platform. “The award has been possible thanks to the opinions of all those who have lived the experience in our beloved FAC. Read more

Cuba could produce Russian COVID-19 vaccine

August 11, 2020 Sputnik of Oncubanews 0

Production of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine could begin in Cuba in November, said Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. “Cuba has excellent capabilities to manufacture vaccines. We are discussing the launch of the production with several Cuban enterprises, we believe that Cuba can become one of the Read more

Family biking across US to oppose sanctions on Cuba

July 28, 2020 WKOW.COM 0

MADISON (WKOW) — A Cuban-American teacher and his family are riding their bicycles across the entire United States. Carlos Lazo and his family started from their home in Seattle and they’ve already ridden 2,000 miles, stopping in Madison on Sunday. Their destination is Washington, D.C. where they’re hoping to advocate Read more

Codepink tell Congress to unblock Cuba!

July 27, 2020 CODEPINK 0

This is exciting and we must act fast: We have a rare chance to hold — and win — two historic votes in the Congressional House of Representatives rolling back parts of U.S. sanctions on Cuba on food, medicines, and remittances. These are amendments to a spending bill that will Read more

Cuba-United States for beginners (III)

Where did one of the architects of President Kennedy’s main program for Latin America, godfather of baptism from the Alliance for Progress, come from in 1961? In what hands did Ronald Reagan (1981-88) and George W. Bush (2001-2008) place their most important offices for the western hemisphere: those that coordinated the Read more

Cuba-US Relations for Beginners (II)

“Cuban blacks look directly into the eyes of whites,” noted an impressed North American visitor in 1907: “For the American in his country, considering black as an equal in social, political, or even labor terms is an affront, an offense, at least; for the Cuban, no. This is because [the black in Read more