Cuba Celebrates Fidel Castro's 84th Birthday

<p style="text-align: justify;">August 14, 2010. with a series of artistic and cultural events that included book and magazine presentations, concerts, dance shows and theater, excursions, visits to historic sites and summer courses, Cuba celebrates the 84th birthday of former President Fidel Castro Read More

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FBF applauds committee passage of Cuba trade bill

<p style="text-align: justify;">The House Agriculture Committee's approval June 30 of the Cuba trade bill will help increase agriculture exports to that island nation and help make U.S. agricultural goods the products of choice in the Cuban marketplace, according to the merican Farm Bureau Federation. Read More

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Canvassing Cuba's art

<p style="text-align: justify;">Aug. 14, 2010. "You need to be here before there's a Starbucks on every corner," says Bill Hendricks, the west coast professor who led our tour of 22 to Cuba. It was his 42nd trip to this small island country, a mere 45-minute flight from Miami, and he wanted us&nbsp; to experience the "real" Cuba. Read More

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Biran: Fertile Land

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, Cuba.- Biran is a fertile, humid and flourishing land. Maybe these were the natural and climatic virtues that most impressed Don Angel Castro Argiz, former Spanish soldier, to settle in the region and develop the agricultural cultivations: sugar cane, forest and cattle. Read More

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Tommy John surgery for A's bonus-baby Ynoa

<p style="text-align: justify;">(08-14) 04:00 PDT MINNEAPOLIS --Michael Ynoa made headlines two years ago when he received the largest-ever signing bonus for an international player not from Cuba. Read More

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Raul Castro Meets with Panama President

Cuban President Raul Castro held talks with Panama's Ricardo Martinelli, who is on a private visit to Cuba. Read More

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Another Try at the Cuba Swim, 32 Years Later

<p style="text-align: justify;">From 1968 to 1979, Diana Nyad, a long-distance swimmer, set several world records, including circling Manhattan in 7 hours 57 seconds in 1975. Before this month is out, Nyad, 60, plans to step off the shores of Cuba, near Havana, and swim 103 miles to Key West. Read More

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Lopez Obrador Thanks Fidel Castro for his Comments

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 14 (acn) Former Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thanked Fidel Castro on Friday for the comments on him that the leader of the Cuban Revolution recently wrote in articles published by Cuban newspapers. Read More

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Governor Bill Richardson: "Time for Western Hemisphere countries to collaborate"

<p style="text-align: justify;">Governor Bill Richardson has written an excellent Op Ed on US relations with Latin America. He offers the kind of visible conceptual framework and leadership that has been absent from the Obama Administration to date. Read More

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Thousands of hectares of forest destroyed by fire in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:12 PM. HAVANA, Aug. 12, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- All together 5,711 hectares of forest in Cuba have been burnt down by fires from January to May, said official sources here on Thursday. Read More

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