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Cuba Condemns U.S. Presidential Memorandum Tightening Economic Blockade: A Renewed Assault on Sovereignty
Cuba rejects renewed U.S. measures tightening the economic siege.Photo:EFE. July 1, 2025 Hour: 9:45 pm Cuba vehemently rejects the U.S. Presidential Memorandum of June 2025 that intensifies the economic blockade, denouncing it as an imperialist...

Cuba is the epicenter of current exchanges on environment
The program, which covers seven congresses and an exhibition fair under the motto ‘More awareness for a healthy environment’, will run until July 6 and will focus on vital issues such as the confrontation to climate change, impact and resilience...

The Flintstones of Cuba
Digital drawing by Fabiola Gonzalez By Fabiana del Valle HAVANA TIMES – Lately I wake up waiting for the rooster to crow at me from the window. Living on this Island is like inhabiting a version of The Flintstones, only without the comedy’s irony...

I’m a frugal mum of two — I ditched loo roll and cut my own hair
Christine and her husband have learnt how to stretch her budget (Picture: @eco.amical / SWNS) A mum-of-two has revealed the unsual lengths she goes to in order to save money, including cutting her own hair and even ditching toilet roll. And while...

Cuba appreciates Nicaragua and Bolivia’s denunciations of US measures
Through the social media platform X, the foreign minister expressed his gratitude to co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as well as to the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation and its revolutionary people for their...
‘Please, something to eat’: Cubans forced to beg on streets amid economic crisis
HAVANA - Mr William Abel peers inside a plastic bag he dug out of a trash can in Havana while scrounging for his next meal. It contains rice, vegetables, a meatless chicken bone and flies competing for the spoils. The 62-year-old has been sleeping...

Cuba rejects the US Presidential Memorandum tightening the economic blockade
Photo: Ricardo López Hevia The anti-Cuban document released by the US government on June 30, 2025, is a reissue and amendment of Presidential National Security Memorandum No. 5, which the US government itself had issued on June 16, 2017, at the...

Cuba: For children summer is a home
Under the motto “A Home for Children,” the cultural institution opens its doors to young people interested in learning about the Latin American and Caribbean history and art housed in its galleries. Every Wednesday morning, visitors of all ages...

Cuba: Where Is Rock Bottom?
Havana in the dark. Photo: Juan Suarez By Angry GenXer HAVANA TIMES – They say that when someone loses footing in a pool, lake, or along the seashore, they can let themselves sink to the bottom, push off, and return to the surface—then catch their...
Cuba works on caring for patients with Parkinson's
HOLGUIN, Cuba, July 1 (ACN) The General Health Directorate in the eastern province of Holguín is implementing a comprehensive program for the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease through the use of science and technological innovation....

Satanizing the people in uniform: the new pretext for the war against Cuba
FAR and Minint are an inseparable part of Cuba's history in its permanent struggle against the vile obsession of the U.S. governments to truncate our right to independence and sovereignty. Photo: Juvenal Balán The military that Marco Rubio's...

Cuba Does Not Break in Women's Pan American Softball Championship
Softball Havana, Jul 1 (RHC) - Cuba maintained its undefeated record today in the Super Round of the 11th Pan American Softball Championship for Women, after defeating Argentina 5-1 at the José Gabriel Amín Manzur stadium in Monteria, Colombia....

Cuba promotes Bill on sports activity
The proposal, with 253 articles, includes state funding, private sponsorship and strengthening of provincial academies. Magda Damian, Deputy Provincial Director of the National Institute of Sports and Recreation (INDER), stressed that the law...

Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)
July 9, 2025 Now it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions. Edit Ad Policy Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a news conference following the NATO summit on June 25, 2025.(Omar Havana / Getty Images) President Donald Trump and...

Cuba Congratulates sports journalists on its day
Through the social network X, Vento expressed that “on the International Day of the Sports Journalist, we congratulates all those who make this work sn expression of ethics and professionalism”. The leader expressed his gratitude “for his...

Havana hosts Int’l Convention Cubambiente 2025
Held every two years, the event officially begins this Wednesday with the attendance of professionals from Argentina, Canada, Chile, Spain, the United States, Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, and Suriname, among other nations....

Who are Lina Luaces' parents? All about Miss Universe Cuba 2025
On July 8, 2025, Cuban model Lina Luaces was crowned Miss Universe Cuba 2025. She competed with 15 other contestants from the nation and represented Santiago de Cuba. According to the Facebook page Missosology, Lina was born to popular TV host...

Cuba Seeks to Maintain Its Undefeated Record in Women's Pan American Softball Championship
Women's Softball Havana, Jul 1 (RHC) - Today, Cuba's women's softball team will face its Argentinean counterpart with the aim of preserving its undefeated record in the Super Round of the 11th Pan American Championship being held in Monteria,...

Cuba’s top diplomat slams Trump’s latest anti-Cuban move as criminal conduct
HAVANA, July 1. /TASS/. The memorandum strengthening the US policy toward Cuba signed by US President Donald Trump on Monday reinforces the aggression and economic blockade against the island country, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez...

Who sets the price of the dollar in Cuba? The financial war that many don't see
In a regional scenario where economic wars are fought both in the markets and online. The afternoon of August 3, 2022, marked a key moment for the Cuban economy. Thousands of citizens tuned in to one of the most anticipated editions of the...