ELN wants a commission to verify its lack of ties to drug trafficking
The negotiating delegation of the Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) that remains in Cuba proposed Friday to create an international...
April 23, 2021Section
Cuba News in English
The Rio Times covers Cuba daily in English — the economy, the peso, politics, tourism and daily life on the island. Today’s Cuba news in English, updated every day, plus our guides for visitors, expats and investors.
Cuba reports new record number of daily covid cases (April 22)
Cuba once again surpassed the absolute maximum number of daily cases of covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic by...
April 22, 2021
Latin America confirms its commitment to eliminate congenital Chagas disease
Latin America confirmed Wednesday its support for a new initiative to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of Chagas, a disease endemic to...
April 22, 2021
Latin America spent 4.6% of GDP in 2020 on aid to tackle the crisis – report
Latin America, the region most affected in the world by the pandemic, allocated in 2020 on average 4.6% of its...
April 21, 2021
Brazil cases dropping but relaxing health measures could reverse gains – PAHO Director
Brazil is seeing a drop in COVID-19 cases including in the hard-hit Amazon region but the relaxation of measures by...
April 21, 2021
Cuba sets new record for the number of daily Covid-19 cases
Cuba registered on Tuesday the highest number of new daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic by reporting 1,183...
April 20, 2021
Five common keys for Latin America arriving at the Ibero-American summit in Andorra
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Each Latin American country attends the XXVII Ibero-American Summit in Andorra this Wednesday with its...
April 20, 2021
President Díaz-Canel is elected leader of Cuba’s Communist Party to replace Raul Castro
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel replaced Raúl Castro as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC, the only...
April 19, 2021
Cuba’s Raul Castro leaves the political stage, his legacy yet to be written
Raul Castro, who is retiring from high public office, for most of his life toiled in the shadow of his...
April 18, 2021