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Archive - Oct 20, 2010

Cuba expands farm supply shop network

<p style="text-align: justify;">Agence France-Presse. First Posted 12:59:00 10/20/2010. HAVANA, Cuba—Keen to foster greater domestic food production,&nbsp; Cuba has vastly expanded a nationwide network of&nbsp; farm supply stores, an official said Tuesday. "We started some months back with about 10 products (boots, gloves, machetes) and now we have almost 20. We are hoping to get 40 products by this year," said interior ministry official Arturo Vazquez. Read More

IAAF Publishes the List to Choose Athletes of the Year

<p style="text-align: justify;">The world governing body for track and field, IAAF, published today the list of finalists from which to choose the best athletes of the year. According to specialists, North American sprinter Tyson Gay and Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlasic are the favourites. Read More

Cuban Musician Praises Importance of CUBADISCO

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban musician Cesar Lopez recognized Tuesday the international significance of the biggest event of the national discography, Cubadisco, which will be held in this city in May. Read More

Guerrilla strategy on the sports field

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Cuban baseball players who are traveling to Taipei, China, to play in the Intercontinental Cup will have something to read in their idle time, according to Prensa Latina. Upon their departure from Havana on Saturday, the team doctor gave each player a copy of Fidel Castro's 896-page book "The Strategic Victory," after reading to them a special message from El Beisbolista en Jefe. Read More

FOREIGN POLICY/Anya Landau French: Stiffing Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">Rather than greet the changes, Obama has replied with mild skepticism. "I think that any release of political prisoners, any economic liberalization that takes place in Cuba is positive, positive for Cuban people, but we've not yet seen the full results of these promises," Obama told Hispanic media at the White House Tuesday. COMMENT: No matter what Cuba does, Washington will never think it's enough. That's the lesson of the past fifty years. Worse, this "liberal" presents her prescriptions for US policy as weapons which Washington is choosing NOT to use to intervene in Cuba's domestic political and economic situation. This is nothing but vulgar crap! Walter Lippmann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Read More

A Global Piano and Literary Salon: The Soul of Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">In Collaboration with PianoCulture.com and PEN World Voices Festival. Join world-renowned jazz pianist Chuchito Valdés and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love) to celebrate Cuban culture through music, readings, food, wine and lively conversation. The evening features a performance by Valdés and reading by Hijuelos, followed by a discussion with the artists, who will explore the influences of Europe, Africa and North America on their work and on Cuba’s cultural landscape. Hosted by Ina Howard-Parker. Read More

Exploring Cuba by paintbrush

<p style="text-align: justify;">Vancouver Island North. Artists merging at Pearl. Published: October 19, 2010 3:00 PM. Rochelle Nehring’s exhibit Regarding Red is a vivid representation of the people, street scenes and life in a place where time stood still: Cuba. In these paintings hanging at the Tidemark Gallery from Oct. 21 until Nov. 8, Nehring has used her brush to paint a light hearted and down to earth view of her experience there. Portraiture for her is like people watching in a crowded place. Read More

‘El bloqueo’ turns 50 today

<p style="text-align: justify;">As a push to lift the travel ban has stalled in the U.S. Congress, the economic embargo — termed blockade&nbsp; by Cuba — is turning 50 years old today. The Torricelli Law of 1992 and the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 codified the embargo, putting Congress in charge of U.S. sanctions against Cuba. While the political power of pro-embargo forces has waned, as a result of the lack of threat by Cuba to U.S. national security and reforms on the island, the funds provided by anti-Castro PACs to Congressional campaigns continue to bolster inertia. Read More

Book by Prestigious Cuban Narrator to be presented in Italy

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.18 - 18:49:53 / [email protected]. Holguin, Cuba.- The book Papeles de un naufragio (Papers from a Shipwreck), by prestigious Cuban writer Lourdes Gonzalez (Holguin, 1952) will be soon presented in Italy, translated under the title of “Carte da un naufragio". Read More

Int’l Fishing Tournament Kicks off in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.18 - 19:12:35 / [email protected]. Int’l Fishing Tournament Kicks off in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba. Ciego de Avila, Cuba.- The first International Fishing Tournament Jardines del Rey kicked off Monday in Cayo Guillermo, in the central northern keys of Ciego de Avila, bringing fishing enthusiasts from different parts of the world. Read More