Cursed blessing

Intense precipitations are mitigating in Cuba the effects of the strong drought in 2015, but they are due to a climate alteration that has damaged the tuber and vegetable crops.


Bendición maldecida

Intensas precipitaciones alivian en Cuba el castigo de un 2015 de fuerte sequía, pero responden a una alteración climática que ha dañado a cultivos de viandas y hortalizas.


El castigo del cielo

Los daños provocados por la sequía en los primeros meses de 2015 alarman a los cubanos, a pesar de lluvias recientes. Cultivos, embalses e importantes ciudades se encuentran bajo tensión por el déficit de agua acumulado.


A la zaga de Obama

Consultores y políticos demócratas y republicanos suman fuerzas en un nuevo grupo destinado a hacer lobby en el Congreso contra el bloqueo económico a Cuba. Los empresarios de EEUU mueven las fichas.


Paris Club snuggles to negotiate with Cuba

The chairman of the Paris Club, Bruno Bézard, went to Havana to open the way for a negotiation of the debt payments paralysed by Cuba for almost 30 years.

Both parties are seeking a solution to the Caribbean nation’s millions of dollars debt with the forum of 19 creditor countries. The European delay this time is working in favour of the Cuban party.


Club de París se arrima a negociar con Cuba

The chairman of the Paris Club, Bruno Bézard, went to Havana to open the way for a negotiation of the debt payments paralysed by Cuba for almost 30 years.

Ambas partes buscan una solución para la deuda multimillonaria de la nación caribeña con el foro de 19 países acreedores. La demora europea obra esta vez a favor de la parte cubana.


The doors to information

Telecommunications promise to score the first Cuban-U.S. business agreement since the start of talks between the two countries.

Cuba and the United States are promptly moving the telecommunications pieces. The start of talks to resume diplomatic relations has speeded up the game in that field, highly sensitive for the rest of the spheres of life and development: science and technology, culture and access to information, politics, the economy. With the simultaneous announcement by presidents Raúl Castro and Barack Obama last December 17, the U.S. president recognised the failure of the policy of economic embargo. But he warned immediately that his intentions and purposes with the neighbouring Caribbean island continued the same. The decades of Cuba being isolated by the U.S. did not achieve our goal of promoting the emergence of a stable, prosperous and democratic Cuba, Obama said. He only proposed at the time a different, more civilised way of focusing or achieving his strategy. Washington’s cards include