The U.S. government has begun applying sanctions to Cubans with dual nationality and foreigners visiting Cuba, reports Granma newspaper today.

Through the lens of German filmmaker Andreas Dresen, the Berlin International Film Festival, known as Berlinale, screened Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush, a docu-drama about about the experiences of prisoner Murat Kurnaz, imprisoned at the US base from 2002 to 2006, as one of the injustices committed at the Guantanamo naval base, a Cuban territory illegally occupied by the United States.

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) will hold the 21st Meeting of its Political Council on Monday, March 1, according to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.