Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Plant Seeds of Hope in Secret Garden
With their bare hands and the most basic of tools, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have fashioned a secret garden where they have grown plants from seeds recovered from their meals.
View ArticleHemingway papers link Cuba and US
Cuba is sending the US copies of more than 20,000 papers relating to the Nobel Prize winning American writer Ernest Hemingway.
View ArticleCastro the Conservationist? By Default or Design, Cuba Largely Pristine
Will Cuban President Fidel Castro be remembered primarily as a man of the people, an authoritarian tyrant-or a conservationist?
View ArticleBoth Cuba, Venezuela reap benefits from medical program
Roberto Andrade sat in a hospital waiting room beside rows of patients, each with a bandage on one eye, and explained why he considers himself a diplomat of sorts.
View ArticleAl Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al)...
View ArticleSkies to be swept for alien life
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
View ArticleEconomic crises can have health benefits
Food and fuel shortages may have made life miserable in the short-term, but they led to long-term improvements in Cubans' health
View ArticleReforestation Strategy to the Rescue of Cuban Soils Damaged by Mining Works
The Pinares de Mayari Basic Unit intends to repair the environmental damage caused by opencast mining operations in one of Cuba’s easternmost provinces by cultivating plants in the affected areas.
View ArticleScenes from Havana
Havana, the capital city of the island nation of Cuba is home to nearly 4 million people -- 20% of the entire population of Cuba.
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