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South African Students Off to Cuba
The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department has held a send off event for 15 students who will leave for Cuba next week to study medicine. How People Arrived Here: bursary scheme for doctors in cuba
Cuban Government Planning Over a Million Layoffs
Cuban President Raul Castro has said that the government is to begin slashing 1,000,000 superfluous jobs in the public sector.
Seychelles to Seek Cuban Help to Treat Diabetes
The Seychelles Ministry of Health is to seek the help of the Cuban government to make available a landmark treatment for diabetes that has a very high success rate in avoiding amputations following a visit of President James Michel to Cuba. Sources indicate...
Couple Plead Guilty in 30-Year Espionage Conspiracy
A former State Department official and his wife have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their roles in a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified U.S. national defense information to the Republic of Cuba. At a hearing before Judge Reggie...
Fidel Castro Says Relaxed Travel Restrictions have Helped Spread the H1N1 Virus
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro says relaxed travel restrictions between the United States and Cuba have helped spread the H1N1 swine flu virus. In an opinion piece published Saturday in Cuba’s state-run newspapers, Mr. Castro says the first...
Two Pilots Killed As MiG-23 Fighter Crashes At Tripoli Air Show
A Libyan Defense Ministry spokesman said that two pilots were killed when a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 Flogger fighter crashed on Wednesday in Tripoli during a demonstration flight. The aircraft crashed about 2 kilometers from observation platforms at the...
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Invites Obama to “Peace Dialogue”
During a meeting with U.S. labor union leaders in New York on Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez invited the unionists to participate in the fair trade integration bloc known as the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), and he invited...
Venezuela’s President Chavez Warns of Possible War Due to an Increased U.S. Military Presence in Colombia
At a South American summit in Quito on Monday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the presence of U.S. servicemen in Colombia could provoke a war. “The announcement of an American military deployment at seven military bases in Colombia could...
