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Archive - Oct 14, 2010

Chile Overjoyed at Miners' Rescue

<p style="text-align: justify;">Chileans continue celebrating the amazing rescue of 33 miners who survived 70 days in a gold and bronze mine in the Atacama desert. The last of the six rescuers who entered the mine to aid the trapped workers emerged at 00:32 (local time). Read More

Cuba Presents New Tourism Campaign in Uruguayan Fair

<p style="text-align: justify;">10/13/2010. Cuba presented Wednesday a new campaign for promoting tourism in a special exhibition at the opening of the VII Uruguay´s Tourism Fair Encotur 2010, attended by Hector Lescano, Uruguay''s Minister of Tourism. Under the name of Authentic Cuba, Luis Felipe Aguilera, director of the Office of Information and Tourist Promotion of the island for the Southern Cone, showed a six-minute video with attractions of the Caribbean nation. Read More

Cuba on storm alert as weakened Paula approaches

<p style="text-align: justify;">AFP. Cuba on storm alert as weakened Paula approaches AFP/NASA – NASA handout satellite image shows Hurricane Paula. Cuba put residents on alert Wednesday as a weakened … Wed Oct 13, 7:34 pm ET. HAVANA (AFP) – Cuba put residents on alert Wednesday as a weakened Hurricane Paula neared the island after drenching Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, officials said. Read More

Amnesty International Press Release

<p style="text-align: justify;">(Washington, D.C.) In a report released today, Amnesty International outlines its concerns with the fairness of the trial of five men convicted in 2001 of acting as intelligence agents for Cuba, among other charges. The five men are serving terms ranging from 15 years to life in US federal prisons. Read More

Official report: 100,000 Cubans moving into agriculture

<p style="text-align: justify;">A day after running an article on the obstacles startup private farmers are facing in Guantánamo province, official daily Juventud Rebelde published a report suggesting that 100,000 Cubans have moved into farming recently. Read More

Warning About Lack of Funds to Control Malaria

<p style="text-align: justify;">The struggle against malaria, a disease affecting several millions of people every year, is hamstrung by shortage of funds, highlighted a research paper published by The Lancet magazine. Read More

Raul Paz Promotes Havanization in Asia

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban singer and composer Raul Paz will travel to the Asian continent late in the month to promote his latest album, Havanization, in an extended international tour to Europe and Latin America until mid 2011. Read More

Brazilian Musician to receive Intl. Cubadisco Prize

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 12 (acn) Brazilian musician and composer Egberto Gismonti will receive the International Cubadisco Prize on Saturday in this capital, for his album Saudacoes (Greetings). Saudacoes is made up by two CD’s: Dueto de violoes, with guitar performances by his son Alexandre, and the Suite Sertoes Veredas, especially composed for a women’s string orchestra and recorded in Havana on August, 2006, Prensa Latina news agency reported. Read More

Cuba prepares for hurricane Paula

<p style="text-align: justify;">Reuters. Hurricane Paula brushed by Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and was expected to turn east toward Cuba, where preparations began for the small storm that packed a powerful punch. Officials in the western state of Pinar del Rio said evacuations would begin later in the day and steps had been taken to protect fields of the prized tobacco for which the province is famous. Paula, with sustained winds of 160kmh, was a Category 2 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale and located 105km from Cuba's western tip, the US National Hurricane Center said in an 11am EDT (4am Oct 14 NZT) advisory. Read More

Cuban University Welcomes New Foreign Students

<p style="text-align: justify;">Martes, 12 de octubre de 2010. 16:55Santiago de Cuba, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) The Universidad de Oriente welcomed on Tuesday 34 new foreign students who will take university courses as part of Cuba''s cooperation with other countries in higher ducation. With the students admitted this course, there are a total of 239 foreign students from 41 nations in this University that has formed in 65 years thousands of professionals from the five continents. Read More