Cuba Waits Anxiously for Oil Dreams to Materialize
ABC News - Sun May 27, 1:26 pm ETCuba's oil dreams take hit from failure of first well, but high-stakes gamble has more rolls
Cuba's oil dreams take hit from failure of first well, but high-stakes gamble has more rolls
It was supposed to be Cuba's economic savior: vast untapped reserves of black gold buried deep under the rocky ocean floor.
It was supposed to be Cuba's economic saviour: vast untapped reserves of black gold buried deep under the rocky ocean floor.
Havana • It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba’s Internet isolation and boost Web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island.
Cuba's government is taking steps to address the country's housing crisis, brought on by a struggling economy and years of storm damage and neglect.
More than a year ago, Cuba's first high-speed undersea connection made landfall on the island. It promised to speed up connection speeds enormously. So where are the bits? It was February 2011, and all was sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the landfall of an undersea fibre-optic cable which, they promised, would end Cuba's internet isolation and boost web capacity 3 ...
A Spanish company's search for oil off the northern coast of Cuba has come up empty after raising concerns about the potential of an oil spill reaching Florida shores, but another exploratory well is in the works.
LA HABANA (AP) Más de 8.000 personas fueron evacuadas en la noche del viernes en la provincia central de Sanctí Spíritus, la más severamente afectada por las intensas lluvias que azotaron la región central de Cuba. Los fuertes aguaceros provocaron
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HAVANA, May 25 (UPI) -- Cuba is reportedly sitting on vast underwater oil and gas reserves, but none came up in the latest exploration, a joint Chinese-Spanish undertaking.
MIAMI _ The fiber-optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela, long and eagerly awaited by Cubans as a speedy new ramp onto the Internet, is "in full operation" but only between the two governments, according to news reports and experts. Cubans now have the slowest and most expensive access to the Internet in Latin America because their connections must go through satellites rather than far faster ...
When Rocky Mountain College offered a course about Cuba this winter, no students signed up. But adults in the community jumped at the chance to learn about and visit the communist island nation 90 miles south of Florida.
LA HABANA (AP) Ciego de Avila desató una ofensiva de 15 hits, incluyendo cuatro jonrones, para apoyar al derecho Osmar Carrero al vencer el domingo 10-2 a Industriales y quedar a una victoria de coronarse campeones del béisbol cubano. Ciego
Tourist arrivals in Cuba hit an unexpected record in the first four months this year, the Cuban National Statistic Bureau (NBS) said Tuesday.
A State Department veteran of Cuba affairs, Ricardo Zuniga, will move over to White House to replace Dan Restrepo as the National Security Council's lead man on Latin America policy, Click to Continue »
LA HABANA (AP) Un oportuno sencillo de Alexander Malleta en la décima entrada remolcó la carrera que le dio la victoria 4-3 a Industriales sobre Ciego de Avila, en la madrugada del domingo, en el tercer cotejo de la final