There is a scientific consensus that climate change is real. Not everyone agrees, but the people who don’t believe it are answering to an awfully scornful title: climate change deniers. Since assuming leadership in 2006, following the illness of his brother, President Raúl Castro initiated a gradual process to update… read more »
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Tag Archives: Catholic Church
July 24, 2012
Cardinal praises prominent Cuban dissident at funeral
Rosa Tania Valdes, Reuters - Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega paid tribute to the “clear political vocation” and religious faith of leading dissident Oswaldo Paya at his crowded funeral on Tuesday, days after the prominent anti-communist activist died in a car crash. “Oswaldo had a clear political vocation, and this, like a… read more »
July 10, 2012
Chavez gov’t, Venezuelan bishops resume dialogue
EFE – Officials from President Hugo Chavez’s leftist administration and members of Venezuela’s Catholic bishops conference met on Tuesday in this capital with the aim of ending the acrimony that has characterized their relationship until now. “We’ve come to express our intention, beyond the disagreements that there have been between… read more »
June 22, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Haiku Hype: The Flutter over Fidel’s Twitter-Length Reflections
Whoa, Fidel Castro in the age of Twitter. Headlines from Miami to London sound the alert. “Fidel Castro leaves people guessing as he writes cryptic, Haiku-like notes.” As the Miami Herald put it: In cryptic paragraphs of never more than 65 words, the former Cuban president has written about yoga poses, edible plants,… read more »
June 21, 2012
New Cuban ‘Think Tank’ to Study Social Reality & Future Prospects
Dmitri Prieto, Havana Times – The Cuban Roman-Catholic magazine Espacio Laical, in one of its recent online supplement, announced the establishment of the “Laboratorio Casa Cuba” think tank. The new Cuban academic institution will be devoted to “social and legal research” with “special emphasis” on the “necessary updating of the nation’s… read more »
June 20, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI Receives Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega
Havana Times - This past Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI met with the archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, reported the Vatican Information Service on Monday. According to news sources, the topics that could have been discussed were those related to the most recent visit to the island by the Catholic Church’s… read more »
June 9, 2012
This week, when you read the news summary—and our analysis of the news about oil drilling in Cuba, economic reform, attacks on travel in Congress, and attacks on Cardinal Ortega on Radio Marti – don’t forget how it all came together. The Cuba Central News Team travels to Cuba, takes… read more »
June 1, 2012
Fulton Armstrong – who helped run Cuba policy during the Clinton administration and opposed its subsequent decline during the Bush years as a senior aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — reports here on a troubling development under the Obama administration; namely, its opposition to the role that the… read more »
May 9, 2012
Marti Broadcaster’s attack on Cuban Cardinal Draws Congressional Ire
Senior Members of the U.S. Congress have written Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the now controversial editorial published by Carlos García-Pérez, the director of Radio/TV Marti, in which he attacked Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega and called him a “lackey” of Cuba’s government. Representatives Jim McGovern, James Moran, Sam Farr,… read more »
April 11, 2012
Mexico’s Calderon to visit Cuba, seek better relations
Jeff Franks, Reuters- Mexican President Felipe Calderon will visit Cuba on Wednesday for a quick trip to patch up bruised relations with the communist island and discuss possible business ventures, including oil deals. With just seven months remaining in his six-year term, it will be Calderon’s first trip to Cuba… read more »
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