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Archive - Nov 8, 2010

Cuba toward discrete actions in women's volleyball World Cup

<p style="text-align: justify;">By: Rene Navarro. After falling in its two most recent performances against the teams of Holland and Brazil, Cuba's team will have to fight hard against the Czech Republic and Italy to aspire to a position between 9 and 12 in women's volleyball World Cup taking&nbsp; place in Japan. Only two dates away to end the second round of games, the teams of Russia and Japan, in group E, as well as Brazil and the United States in group H, are showing up as strong candidates to advance to the medal stand discussion. Read More

Latin lessons: What can we learn from the world’s most ambitious literacy campaign? Part 2

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sunday, 7 November 2010.By: JOSE GOITIA. Fifty years ago this month, Cuba committed itself to teach every citizen basic literacy. Today, the country's education system is the envy of the rest of the world. Nina Lakhani travels to Havana to discover the story behind the success – and ask why some believe that cracks are starting to show... Read More

A Cuban-American Cultural Exchange Comes Full Circle

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jose Goitia for The New York Times. The American Ballet Theater artistic director Kevin McKenzie, center, giving a master class to Cuban dancers on Friday, during the 22nd International Ballet Festival in Havana. By VICTORIA BURNETT. Published: November 7, 2010. “You are leaning in too much,” he told the dancers. “Keep your shoulders even. Dance forward in the space around the circle.” Gian Carlos Pérez, 16, one of more than a dozen young men and women in Mr. McKenzie’s two-hour master class, took the advice to heart, saying he would rethink the way he approached leaps. Read More

Filipino honored in Cuba for setting up church

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published Date: November 8, 2010. A FILIPINO woman who co-founded the International Christian Community (ICC) in Cuba 20 years ago received a warm welcome from her congregation in Havana. The Department of Foreign Affairs said Flor Toledo Juarez founded the church with her Cuban husband Rev. Rodolfo Juarez and three others on Oct. 31, 1990. Read More

Cuba deadline to free political prisoners passes

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Paul Haven, Associated Press – Mon Nov 8, 12:06 am ET. HAVANA – The deadline passed at midnight without any word on the men's fate, President Castro agreed following a meeting with Roman Catholic Cardinal Jamie Ortega to release 52 prisoners of conscience held since a 2003 crackdown on peaceful dissent. The July 7 deal called for all the prisoners to be free in three to four months, a period that ended at midnight Sunday. Read More

Bruzón remains unbeaten in four outings

<p style="text-align: justify;">The champion of the island was reached in accumulated by Ivan Salgado. Havana (7 Nov) .- Cuban Lázaro Bruzón agreed charts today with the German Artur Jussupow and remained unbeaten in the tournament chess Magistral Casino de Barcelona in Spain, where local Salgado Ivan struck him in the pool. Bruzón (2668 Elo points) led the black pieces against a man of great experience (2589), five-times Olympic champion teams, and peace was signed on 40 sets of Queen's Gambit. Read More

No hope now for change in United States' stance towards Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Albor Ruiz - Ny Local. Sunday, November 7th 2010, 4:00 AM. It is a never-ending story: Americans won't be traveling to Cuba anytime soon,at least not legally. Whatever modest hopes about relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba President Obama may have raised earlier in his administration became nothing more than wishful thinking after last week's midterm elections. For a moment last August it seemed the President was ready to use his executive powers to take another step - however timid - to ease those restrictions. A reputed "leak" from the White House created a persistent buzz that an announcement about a very limited opening in visits to Cuba was imminent. Read More

Dancing with La Conga de Los Hoyos

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Yelanys Hernández Fusté. Felix Bandera explains with pride: “We filmed Añoranza por la conga (Yearning for Conga), that videoclip by Sur Caribe, here in the neighborhood, at El Campito. It was very special and swept at the Lucas TV awards”.<br> He looks at the house of the former director of La Conga de Los Hoyos, Sebastian Herrera Zapata (Chan), and evokes that stage where the also celebrated group from Santiago made history because of its way of combining the bugle with percussion instruments. Read More

Costa Rican Landslide Kills 20 People

<p style="text-align: justify;">At least 20 people were killed and nearly ten have been reported as missing in the wake of a landslide caused by heavy rain of the last few days in a poor neighbourhood of San Jose, according to relief organizations. &nbsp; An avalanche of mud and rocks from Pico Blanco fell ver poor houses in Las Lajas neighborhood, in San Antonio de Escazu municipality. Read More

Bank Closures in the U.S. Total 143 So Far in 2010

<p style="text-align: justify;">The number of bank closures in the United States reached 143 so far this year after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. closed for more on Friday. The figure moves past the 2009 total of 140. Read More