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Archive - Dec 14, 2010

Bolivia to Buy Satellite from Chinese Firm

<p style="text-align: justify;">EFE - 12/13/2010. LA PAZ – The Bolivian government and China Great Wall Industry Corporation moved a step closer to finalizing a deal for Bolivia’s first communications satellite with the signing on Monday of a purchase agreement.Talks on the prospective Tupac Katari satellite, named after the leader of an 18th century rebellion against the Spanish, began in 2009. Read More

Antiterrorism rules hit U.S.-Cuban cigar trade

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Michael Tarm. Associated Press. CHICAGO - It's an unintended consequence of the fight against terrorism that has left some cigar aficionados fuming: Terrorists in Yemen try to send bomb-laden packages to the United States on cargo planes, and now a connoisseur in Iowa can't get his Cuban cigars from Switzerland. Read More

Researchers Agree to Strengthen Cuban Biodiversity Network

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010.12.14 - 13:46:15 / [email protected]. HAVANA, CUBA.- Researchers from 18 Cuban institutions meeting in Havana agreed to create conditions to strengthen the Cuban Information Network on Biodiversity (RIBC). The decision was adopted in a meeting held under the auspices of the Cuban Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), according to the Bissea digital newsletter on the preservation of plants of the Cuban National Botanic Garden. Read More

Senior Chinese military official arrives in Cuba for visit

<p style="text-align: justify;">2010-12-14 06:19:06 GMT2010-12-14 14:19:06 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English. HAVANA, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- General Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, arrived here Monday for a goodwill visit at the invitation of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces Ministry. Read More

Cuba Launches Its Own Version of Wikipedia

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Sandy M. Fernández. Published December 13, 2010.Fox News Latino. Cuba is launching its own version of the popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. According to its homepage, EcuRed -- which is billed as “Knowledge by all and for all” -- already holds over 19,500 entries, including one about the United States that calls it “the empire (imperialist?) of our time and the most powerful country in the world.” Read More

Today's Cuba Weather News this December 13

<p style="text-align: justify;">It will be breezy and cooler with low clouds in the West and Mainland, whereas in the East, it will be sunny and pleasant; the clouds and rains will move in the afternoon towards the eastern provinces with the advance of the cold front. Read More

Cuba Opens Ninth Anti-Cholera Hospital in Haiti

<p style="text-align: justify;">13 de diciembre de 2010, 15:06Havana, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) With the opening of another cholera treatment hospital in the capital's suburb of Carrefour, there are now nine centers opened by Cuba in Haiti to stop the epidemic. Read More

Alex Cuba, from Latin hotbeds to Canadian winters – and loving it

<p style="text-align: justify;">GUY DIXON. From Tuesday's Globe and Mail. There are many assumptions you could make about Alex Cuba.That he must feel out of his element living in Smithers in the B.C. Interior, given that he’s originally from Cuba. Or that at least he must feel cut off from his Latin audience.Or,surely, that he must curse the snow falling outside his window.Alex Cuba: Si Pero No. Presume this, and you’ll be wrong on every count. Read More

Forlan chosen Best LatAm Athlete

<p style="text-align: justify;">Por Dayami Interián García. lunes, 13 de diciembre de 2010.Havana, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan national television ratified Uruguayan soccer player Diego Forlan as the best athlete of 2010 in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a Prensa Latina poll. Read More

Defining Cuban identity and Cuban Folklore Society

<p style="text-align: justify;">The African Diaspora and their descendants have been fully researched in Cuba, because its influence on folklore is such that it is associated with almost all the artistic and cultural expressions in the country. By: Mildrey Ponce. The term folklore is associated with the whole set of traditions, beliefs, customs and popular knowledge of any culture that is transmitted generation to generation, mainly orally, which makes it the most direct way to know the idiosyncrasy of any nation. Read More