Cuba
# cuba - Sunday 21 April, 2013
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# cuba - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Barack Obama has better things to do…
…than sort out Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s holiday to Cuba, thanks very much.
# cuba - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay prison enters seventh week
26 low-risk detainees are now refusing food – more than twice the number from a week ago – in protest at conditions.
# cuba - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Cooking with tobacco: it’s a thing now apparently
Tobacco sauces, spreads and tobacco salt for use in any dish – two years of trial and error lead to cigar-infused menu in Cuba. But would you eat it?
# cuba - Saturday 9 March, 2013
Column: Chávez was a charismatic leader – but his economic legacy should be a warning
We’ve lost a colourful world leader who genuinely seemed to have the best interests of his people at heart. But the facts don’t lie – Chávez’s economic legacy is a warning against statist socialism, writes Aaron McKenna.
# cuba - Monday 25 February, 2013
No surprises: Raul Castro re-elected president of Cuba
This is the second five year term for the 81-year-old Raul Castro who officially took over from his brother Fidel in 2008.
# cuba - Friday 22 February, 2013
Raul Castro raises possibility of retiring as Cuban president
The 81-year-old is due to be installed for another five-year term on Sunday – but may not see it through.
# cuba - Monday 18 February, 2013
Chavez uses Twitter to announce his surprise return to Venezuela
Hugo Chavez has spent more than two months in Cuba for cancer surgery and treatment.
# cuba - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Spanish newspaper apologises for fake Chavez hospital picture
El Pais published a photograph it said was of ailing president Hugo Chavez in his hospital bed – provoking a furious reaction from Venezuela.
# cuba - Sunday 13 January, 2013
Chavez not in coma, responding well to treatment, says brother
The brother of Hugo Chavez says reports that the family is discussing ending life support for the Venezuelan leader are totally false.
# cuba - Friday 4 January, 2013
Chavez suffering from ‘respiratory insufficiency’
Hugo Chavez’s top aides say the opposition and the media have used the Venezuelan president’s poor health to wage a “psychological war” to destabilise the country.
# cuba - Monday 31 December, 2012
Venezuela cancels New Year’s Eve parties as Chavez takes turn for the worse
The Venezuelan president has developed new complications from an infection after undergoing his latest round of cancer-related surgery.
# cuba - Friday 28 December, 2012
Fidel Castro visited Ireland in 1982 (and almost met Charles Haughey)
Cuban leader Fidel Castro left a gift for then-Taoiseach Charles Haughey during his brief stopover in Shannon in late 1982.
# cuba - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
First Irish TV, Titanic, a famous ceiling: the big anniversaries of 2012
The Titanic disaster, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty: 2012 has been a big year for commemorations. Here’s your guide to the bigger commemorations held this year.
# cuba - Friday 14 December, 2012
Chavez suffered ‘complications’ but recovering, his aides say
The leader of Venezuela underwent treatment for cancer in Cuba earlier this week.
# cuba - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
Chavez recovering after ‘successful’ cancer surgery
The Venezuelan president flew to Havana, Cuba, for surgery on Monday after revealing his cancer had returned.
# cuba - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Venezuela: Chavez admits cancer relapse and designates his successor
Chavez has not disclosed details of the type of cancer has has but in a significant move he has designated his successor, vice president Nicolas Maduro.
# cuba - Friday 7 December, 2012
Chavez returns from Cuba after cancer treatment
The Venezuelan president said he was very happy to be back but did not elaborate on his health.
# cuba - Monday 19 November, 2012
Colombian rebels announce cease-fire
The top negotiator for the group announced the unilateral cease-fire before heading into peace talks.
# cuba - Tuesday 30 October, 2012
Cuba urged to allow duty-free imports after storm
Cuba’s government has been asked to help victims of Hurricane Sandy by suspending duties on imports of basic necessities such as food and medicine.
# cuba - Friday 26 October, 2012
Hurricane Sandy death toll rises to 38 in Caribbean
Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas today after leaving 38 people dead across the Caribbean.
Hurricane Sandy kills 21 in Caribbean, takes aim at US
Forecasters have warned that the massive hurricane could now merge with North American weather systems and morph into a powerful hybrid that US media have dubbed a “Frankenstorm.”
# cuba - Thursday 25 October, 2012
Hurricane Sandy strikes Cuba, Jamaica
One person was killed in Jamaica while 1,700 people were evacuated in Santiago de Cuba as a precautionary measure.
# cuba - Monday 22 October, 2012
Fidel Castro is ‘seen in public’ as reports of stroke are dismissed
Venezuela’s Vice President, Elias Jaua, said that he met with the aging revolutionary, which was Castro’s first public appearance in a number of months.
# cuba - Sunday 30 September, 2012
Guantanamo’s youngest detainee transferred to Canada
Canadian Omar Khadr, who was also the last westerner held at Guantanamo, was just 16 when he was detained in 2002.
# cuba - Saturday 25 August, 2012
Tropical storm Isaac makes landfall in Haiti
The Caribbean nation is still reeling from an earthquake over two years ago.
# cuba - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
The 5 at 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Diana Nyad pulled from water during Cuba-US swim
Nyad’s latest attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage has been abandoned.
# cuba - Sunday 19 August, 2012
US woman attempts Cuba to Florida swim without shark cage
Diana Nyad, 62, pushing to become the first person to make the 166km crossing unaided.
# cuba - Friday 10 August, 2012
Michael Conlan handsomely defeated by Cuban as he settles for Bronze Medal
The Belfast boxer was given a rough ride by Robeisy Ramirez Carrazana of Cuba.
As it happened: London 2012, Day 14
Stretch out those weary muscles, we’re about to do it all over again.
# cuba - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Was a Cuban dissident’s car ‘rammed off the road’?
An official enquiry has been launched after the car carrying Oswaldo Paya, who fought single-party rule for decades, hit a tree.
# cuba - Friday 20 July, 2012
‘World’ Baseball Classic loses reigning champions Japan over money wrangle
We’ll be rooting for Cuba in 2013.
# cuba - Sunday 8 July, 2012
In pictures: archive photos of Cuba’s Havana from the early 1900s
Street vendors, mounted police, and walking on the Malecon…
# cuba - Friday 29 June, 2012
Granny attempts Cuba-US swim without shark cage
“A little excited, a little nervous,” Palfrey told reporters before diving in. “Beautiful sea, beautiful sunrise.”
# cuba - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
Scale model of Che Guevara monument being built
A scale model of the proposed glass monument, which contains an image of the revolutionary known as ‘El Che’, is currently being constructed, Galway Cllr Billy Cameron has said.
# cuba - Thursday 29 March, 2012
Interview: Carruth reflects on Barcelona ’92 and predicts golden age
The last man to win boxing gold for Ireland believes the latest qualifiers can surpass the triple medal achievements of Beijing.
# cuba - Wednesday 28 March, 2012
Pope meets Fidel Castro in Cuba
The Pope gave an unusually political speech before hundreds of thousands of people in Cuba today.
# cuba - Monday 26 March, 2012
Pope arrives in Cuba for three-day visit
The Pope was welcomed by Cuban President Raul Castro, who told him that his country favours complete religious freedom.
# cuba - Sunday 25 March, 2012
Poll: Should a statue of Che Guevara be erected in Galway?
A US politician has written to the Taoiseach urging him to stop the statue being built – but supporters of the project say the statue will commemorate Che’s Irish heritage. What do you think?
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