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Archive - Dec 20, 2010

Percussion, Axis of the Cuban Essence of Jazz

<p style="text-align: justify;">lunes, 20 de diciembre de 2010. Por José Dos Santos. (Prensa Latina) Veterans and youth mixed it up with their talent and knowledge during the 6th International Colloquium of the Jazz Plaza 2010 Festival, which just concluded in the Cuban capital.For three days, lectures, presentations, book launches and films culminated in a special presentation by elite figures from Cuban percussion, such as José Luis Quintana "Changuito", Enrique Plá, Yaroldys Abreu and Oliver Valdés. Read More

Night of One Thousand and One Texts

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Dalia Acosta. HAVANA, Dec 20, 2010 (IPS) - The legendary Scheherazade has exchanged her enthralling tales of "One Thousand and One Nights" for a compact disc with 1,001 academic articles, essays and books, giving Cubans access to materials that would otherwise be very difficult to obtain.The initiative of the Criterios Theoretical-Cultural Centre is to provide "the greatest amount of international information. Read More

Russian art exhibition in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Dec 20, 2010 12:57 Moscow Time. Alexander Pushkin. Photo: RIA Novosti. Portraits of renowned Russian poet Alexander Pushkin are currently on display in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where an art exhibition to this effect opened earlier in the day.The exhibition features 24 canvases by Russian and Soviet painters, who specifically grappled with depicting Pushkin in various periods of his lifetime.&nbsp; Read More

Sonangol Signs Deal With Cuban Oil Company

<p style="text-align: justify;">Luanda — The Angolan oil company Sonangol Research and Production on 8 December, in Havana, signed a sharing productions contract with Cuban Commercial Cupet S.A, to operate two blocs N23 and N33, in off shore, Angop learnt through a press release issued by Sonangol EP. The document mentions that the sharing production contract with Cuban oil company was signed by the Angolan Mateus de Brito, Sonangol EP administrator, on behalf of Sonangol Researching and Production, and Rafael Luís Arias Batista, deputy president and director general of Commercial Cupet S.A. Read More

Jacob Zuma Met with Cuban Leader in South Africa

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PL — last modified Dec 18, 2010 08:35 AM. The South African president, Jacob Zuma, received on Friday in this capital the member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Jorge Risquet,who will participate in the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students. Read More

Argentine Doctors Graduated in Cuba Provide Free Medical Attention

<p style="text-align: justify;">Buenos Aires, Dec 19 (Prensa Latina) Argentinian doctors graduated in Cuba, have taken care of more than 24,000 patients in poor neiborhoods of this capital and the province of Buenos Aires, for free. Read More

Government sets ambitious goal for tourism

<p style="text-align: justify;">Setting ambitious goals for 2011, the government hopes tourism will be the engine to drag the Cuban economy out of its slump. Read More

Rosa Vasconcelos appreciates Iluminada, a character from theater

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Elizabeth López Corzo. The name Rosa Vasconcelos is very familiar to those who like theater. She is one of the best actresses of the Cuban stage today. And although she has spent some time on stages, the character Iluminada, in Juan Carlos Cremata’s El Premio Flaco, made her really popular. Her performance was so good that Hector Quintero himself said: “She is the Iluminada I thought when I wrote my original play”. Read More

Thousands of Cubans Make Pilgrimage to St. Lazarus

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA – Cubans celebrated Friday the traditional pilgrimage to venerate St. Lazarus at the El Rincon sanctuary near Havana, where thousands of people go every year to make their votive offerings.The Feast of St. Lazarus on Dec. 17 attracts clergy, payers of ex-votos, the Catholic faithful and practitioners of the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria at El Rincon, some 30 kilometers from downtown Havana. Read More

Cruise ships from Great Britain, Canada and Russia to join Cuban tourism

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cruise ships from Great Britain, Canada and Russia will be active in Cuba the coming year 2011, as part of a Cuban program to diversify the tourists' options on the island, an official of the tourist sector reported.An English cruise vessel is going to enter Havana port during two nights. It is a first class ship named Thomson Dream, with a capacity of nearly 1 800 passengers,said José Manuel Bisbé, the commercial director from the Ministry of Tourism. Read More