Biotechnology 2010 Congress Opens in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Biotechnology Havana 2010 Congress opens in this capital on Wednesday with 130 experts from 27 countries, and is focused on comprehensive care for diabetic foot ulcer patients. That condition is mostly treated in Cuba with Heberprot-P, a medicine created by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center, which sponsors the congress. Four years after it was launched onto the market, the results of post-commercialization studies of that medicine will be discussed by roundtables, seminars, and workshops at the congress, which concludes on Friday. Read More

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Message by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz against the Nuclear War

<p style="text-align: justify;">The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide radius of action. This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal Nazi regime. Read More

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Moratinos replaced in Cabinet shuffle; took part in the talks that led to prisoner release

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 20, 2010. Miguel Angel Moratinos, the Spanish foreign minister who in July helped negotiate the prisoner release in Cuba, was replaced by Trinidad Jiménez, the health minister, in a major Cabinet shakeup Wednesday. Moratinos had held the post since 2004, when the Socialist Party came to power. He was a firm opponent of the European <br> Union's "common position" toward Cuba. Read More

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Cuba’s Press and the Cepeda Affair

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 20, 2010. HAVANA TIMES, Oct. 20 — A few days ago the new Cuban baseball roster was announced for the Intercontinental Cup to take place starting October 23 in Chinese Taipei. The restructuring of Team Cuba has generated more than a few comments in our country among the followers of the national sport, especially over the exclusion of Sancti Spiritus slugger Frederich Cepeda. Read More

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Canadians and Britons help boost tourist visits to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">October 20, 2010. Tourist visits to Cuba rose three per cent this year from the same period a year earlier, led by arrivals from Canada and the U.K., Cuban state newspaper Granma reported. A total of two million tourists have visited Cuba this year, Granma said. Tourism to Cuba rose 3.5 per cent last year to 2.4 million visitors, Jose Manuel Bisbe, commercial director for the Tourism Ministry, said. The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that a bill in the U.S. Congress that would lift a 47-year ban on most Americans visiting the island may overwhelm Cuban resorts with tourists if passed. Read More

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Tribute Paid to Writer Alejo Carpentier in France

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.20 - 10:03:47 / [email protected], CUBA.- An international colloquium on the life and work of Alejo Carpentier took place at the University of Amiens, in the north of France, with the participation of specialists in the work of the Cuban writer. Read More

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New Brand of Havana Club Rum Presented in France

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.10.19 - 19:51:25 / [email protected]. Havana, Cuba.- Cuba’s world-famous Havana Club rum will now have a new brand, Master’s Choice, a product of 45 degrees of alcohol and excellent quality, which was presented on Tuesday at the International Fair of Cannes, France. Sergio Valdes, director for exports with Havana Club International, told ACN that this exclusive drink is aged in white oak barrels, and is the fruit of the work of the island’s top rum experts. Read More

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Wonderful Havana Goes Live

<p style="text-align: justify;">WonderfulHavana.com is a new independent traveler’s guide to the Cuban capital. The site offers valuable insider information on the most interesting aspects of Havana. (I-Newswire) Havana, Cuba, October 19, 2010 - Want to experience the REAL Havana? Then check out WonderfulHavana.com, the new independent insider’s guide to the Cuban capital. Vastly different from the usual brochure-style website or outrageously misleading guide book, WonderfulHavana.com is written by a team of people. Some live in Havana and the rest visit the city regularly. Read More

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Cuban Women Archers Qualified for Pan Am Games

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuban youth archers won four gold medals and a bronze in the Continental Qualification Tournament in Mexico, and the women team qualified for the Pan American Games to be held in Guadalajara in 2011. Read More

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Cuba minister hails Qatar ties

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cuba is proud of its relationship with Qatar, the first in the Gulf to open an embassy in the Caribbean nation, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Marcos Rodriguez Costa told an event at Qatar University on Monday. “We are proud of this relationship and our collaboration on healthcare, vaccines and medicine,” he stated at a lecture hosted by the department of international affairs (IA). Read More

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