Argentina’s 1986 World Cup soccer winning captain, Diego Maradona, has three children in Cuba and will travel to the country to legally recognise them, his lawyer told Argentine media. Maradona, 58, now a technical director at Mexican club Dorados de Sinaloa, has five children from other relationships with different women. Lawyer Matias Morla said that […]
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A Boeing 737 plane with 104 passengers on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana’s main airport on Friday. Havana is the capital of the country. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties on the plane, which was destined for Holguin and operated by national airline Cubana, state-run TV reported. “It […]
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After 10 years in office, Cuba’s Raul Castro, 86, will retire as president on Thursday. Today the country’s after parliament proposed Miguel Diaz-Canel as his replacement, a shift that will usher in the island’s first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution. Raul Castro announced his departure several years ago and has long signalled that Diaz-Canel, […]
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Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, the eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, committed suicide on Thursday aged 68 after being treated for months for depression, Cuban state-run media reported. Castro Diaz-Balart, also known as “Fidelito” because of how much he looked like his father, had initially been hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment […]
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Cuban President Raul Castro will step down in April 2018 straight after his successor is chosen by a top governing council, according to a vote Thursday in the island state’s National Assembly. The vote by lawmakers pushed back the date of general elections, which were initially to be held at the end of February. The […]
Continue ReadingCuba’s National Assembly approved a law that bans commemorative statues of Fidel Castro and naming public places after him, in accordance with the wishes of the revolutionary leader, who died last month. Castro always said he did not want a cult of personality, although critics point out that the cult was everywhere. His words are […]
Continue ReadingFormer Cuban President Fidel Castro who died on Friday at the age of 90 years is to be cremated in accordance his wishes. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba for 47 years and saw off 10 U.S. presidents in the process. He remained a force behind the scenes after bowing out of day-to-day politics for health reasons […]
Continue ReadingIt has been announced that Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died at the age of 90. Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century before handing over the powers to his brother Raul in 2008. His supporters praised him as a man who […]
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